I've always bought memory from crucial, and found it to be about the cheapest place around. Today I headed over to do some memory shopping for two laptops, my girlfriend's new IBM t42p and my new powerbook. I also wanted to see if my Dell 600m's memory would be any use to me. For the thinkpad, it calls for DDR PC2700 NON-ECC UNBUFFERED, and wants $339 for the 1GB module. For the powerbook, it calls for the exact same thing, and wants $479 for the module. The modules have different part numbers, but the same exact specs. As the finishing touch, my 600m takes DDR PC2100, which for the 512MB modules, they want more(~2 dollars, but that's not the point) than the PC2700 modules which according to everything I've read(1), would work and be more usefull in the future.

So, I no longer trust crucial for my meory needs. Should I just order from newegg, or is there somewhere that doesn't believe in screwing the customer, yet still has high quality well gauranteed cheap ram?

Matthew

(1)Memory is designed to be backward-compatible, so generally speaking, you can safely add faster memory to your computer. However, your system will operate at the speed of the slowest module.