Serge
01-03-2000, 04:35 AM
Engagement rings, black caviar and now pc memory. It seems like the smallest things in life are the most expensive ones. I remember getting a Corsair 128mb PC100 stick for $125 and thinking it was expensive... a week ago I had to shell out $180 for the same product thinking I got a "good" price.
Seems like almost every pc hardware component is evolving and slowly becomes less expensive but pc100 memory doesn't seem to be following the rules. For one its an "inferior" product (pc133) so the prices should be dropping even faster, but I guess with demand for pc100 still huge seeing how pc133 is still very expensive and with recent earthquakes in Taiwan... its understandable that prices wouldn't fall and maybe even rise a little but not THIS much! Also every one is telling me that the production levels for pc100 are being lowered and/or even nonexistent today and that just doesn't make sense to me.
I was wondering how you guys cope with this "problem"? Do you solder together pieces of pc66 sticks or sell blood or ...?
Well I guess I'll go back to selling cook..errr hardware door to door. (now there's an idea!)
Seems like almost every pc hardware component is evolving and slowly becomes less expensive but pc100 memory doesn't seem to be following the rules. For one its an "inferior" product (pc133) so the prices should be dropping even faster, but I guess with demand for pc100 still huge seeing how pc133 is still very expensive and with recent earthquakes in Taiwan... its understandable that prices wouldn't fall and maybe even rise a little but not THIS much! Also every one is telling me that the production levels for pc100 are being lowered and/or even nonexistent today and that just doesn't make sense to me.
I was wondering how you guys cope with this "problem"? Do you solder together pieces of pc66 sticks or sell blood or ...?
Well I guess I'll go back to selling cook..errr hardware door to door. (now there's an idea!)