Re: [ot_caving] computer news - memory prices

2009-01-02 Thread Alex Sproul
In the fast-disappearing Circuit City stores, I found a 2-GB SD Memory Card, MSRP $39.99, for...$2.96. I bought several! Alex - Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [ot_caving] computer news - memory prices

2009-01-02 Thread Don Cooper
Wow! I remember that I thought I was getting an incredible deal when I found one for $19.99, 18 months ago. Maybe at the time it was... -WaV On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Alex Sproul imoca...@comcast.net wrote: In the fast-disappearing Circuit City stores, I found a 2-GB SD Memory Card,

[ot_caving] computer news - memory prices

2008-12-31 Thread David
Check out some of these memory prices on a 1 gig stick of DDR2: http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=720 Most are in the $ 15 to $ 20 range. I don't quiet understand how RAM is not affected much by inflation. If you bought a desktop computer a year or 2 ago, it probably only came with 1

Re: [ot_caving] computer news - memory prices

2008-12-31 Thread Charles Goldsmith
For most computer users, 2 gig of ram seems to be the sweet spot, this applies to most power users. The only caveat to that is anyone doing a lot of graphic or work, photoshop, etc need a lot more. And you are correct, XP (32 bit) which is most of the XP installs, can only address a max of

Re: [ot_caving] computer news - memory prices

2008-12-31 Thread Don Cooper
ANOTHER Caveat - And this especially applies to VISTA (Oh, I forgot they call it Mojave now): Many peripherals have no drivers written (yet) to handle 64 bit operating systems. One of the presents my brother gave to himself and his home entertainment system on Xmas was a new HP computer to go with