Ram Question

To start out, i just bought my first mac (17" powerbook, 1.67) and i'm hooked!

i stayed with the standard 512 ram, but feel that i need more. i'm a full time designer (web and print) and just feel i need a bit more.

Why is the 1gig from apple so expensive ($500)?

i can get 1gig from crucial.com for about $200. they guarantee that it will work great. I'm just a little weary because of the major price difference.

Any help/insight is greatly appreciated.

thanks.

Because Apple can charge a premium because most people just pay whatever Apple says

trpnmonkey41 said:

Because Apple can charge a premium because most people just pay whatever Apple says

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No difference between RAM from Apple and RAM from Crucial. You can get it even cheaper from newegg.com.

i buy my ram from 4allmemory.com they used to send their own brand of memory. but the last 2 GB i bought (2x 1GB) for my powerbook, came as samsung, same OEM that apple sells, and at a **** good price

Oh yeah, apple charges you $500 for 1GB whereas crucial only charges $159 for 1GB...



Edit: I just purchased the 1GB module from Crucial. Yeah, my iBook has 1.5GB RAM.