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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SIMM pricing
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Date: 27 Jun 89 03:01:39 GMT
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How do you define "more expensive"?  Looking at prices a Fry's and in
the back of MacWeek, it would cost me more to buy a 1 meg x 9 SIMM for
our PS/2 model 80 at work than it would cost me to buy a 1 meg x 8 SIMM
for my Macintosh.

So in terms of cost to get a meg in the machine, the Mac SIMMs are
cheaper.  On the other hand, the SIMMs for the IBM are using faster
memory, so I may be getting a better deal per chip with the SIMMs
for the IBM.

On a related note, not all SIMMs for MicroChannel machines will work
on a Mac.  I've seen a machine that uses 1 meg SIMMs that are organized
as 256k x 32.  I doubt that this would work well in a Mac.

						Tim Smith