10-01-2006, 11:37 PM
Two things to remember that may temper your opinion somewhat, vision63:
1. MacPro towers are not aimed at consumers. They are aimed at people who MAKE A LIVING with their machines. IOW, these machines (and their expensive ram) pay for themselves WITHIN DAYS. A lot of our Mac Pro customers are video-editing and ad-agency houses, and the machine is put right to work. Average time till payoff of the "cost" in terms of being able to do more work more efficiently: about two weeks.
2. As ztirffrizz noted, the RAM used by the Mac Pros are a whole 'nother level over ordinary PC ram or even the DDR2 5300 used by the consumer Intel Macs. *Each stick* has its own heat sink, for feck's sake!
This is NOT your present computer's RAM. It is VERY different and thus more expensive.
Does Apple mark up their RAM excessively? In most cases, yes! Our store could (if we did mail order) save you quite a bit of money over Apple's price for the same Apple Certified Spec RAM. Since we don't do mail order, we HIGHLY recommend OWC as the mail-order vendor of choice for this RAM. The Mac Pro *requires* the very highest spec of RAM, you can't go cheap on this one. I don't need to tell anyone here that Larry and the crew are GOOD PEOPLE who don't sell junk.
Comparing prices directly, I see that OWC could save you around $200 for 4GB (4x1GB sticks) and almost $700 over Apple price for 8GB (4x2GB). Nuff said.
1. MacPro towers are not aimed at consumers. They are aimed at people who MAKE A LIVING with their machines. IOW, these machines (and their expensive ram) pay for themselves WITHIN DAYS. A lot of our Mac Pro customers are video-editing and ad-agency houses, and the machine is put right to work. Average time till payoff of the "cost" in terms of being able to do more work more efficiently: about two weeks.
2. As ztirffrizz noted, the RAM used by the Mac Pros are a whole 'nother level over ordinary PC ram or even the DDR2 5300 used by the consumer Intel Macs. *Each stick* has its own heat sink, for feck's sake!
This is NOT your present computer's RAM. It is VERY different and thus more expensive.
Does Apple mark up their RAM excessively? In most cases, yes! Our store could (if we did mail order) save you quite a bit of money over Apple's price for the same Apple Certified Spec RAM. Since we don't do mail order, we HIGHLY recommend OWC as the mail-order vendor of choice for this RAM. The Mac Pro *requires* the very highest spec of RAM, you can't go cheap on this one. I don't need to tell anyone here that Larry and the crew are GOOD PEOPLE who don't sell junk.
Comparing prices directly, I see that OWC could save you around $200 for 4GB (4x1GB sticks) and almost $700 over Apple price for 8GB (4x2GB). Nuff said.