>>>>>>RAM is soooooo cheap these days (just bought 256meg PC133 for $99.)
>>>>>
>>>>>Saw that for sale at SAM's yesterday for $89.
>>>>>I am tempted to take my 1GHz Athlon from 512MB to 1GB of RAM...
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>>>>Fry's Electronics had 256MB for $58, 512MB for $179.
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>>>I paid $48.45 for each 256MB SDRAM.
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>>Wow, I thought I got a good deal a couple of weeks ago at $79 and thought to myself, "it can't go much lower". Looks like I was wrong...
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>I gave up saying "it can't go much lower" regarding computers a long time ago. The place I bought my RAM (and the rest of the computer) is a wholesale to the public place here in Utah. www.ebccomputers.com. I just bought all the parts and assembled the PC.

And I'm convinced that the governments (yours and Canadian) use PC pricing *ONLY* to calculate the cost-of-living index.