jasst3@cisunx.UUCP (sullivan jeffrey a.) (09/19/87)
Does anyone know anything about the $199 1Meg SIMMs being sold by MacProducts USA (800-MAC-DISK)? It says "over 4000 upgrades completed", and "30 money- back guarantee", but I don't know the company who makes them. Also, are they user-installed, or do you have to send your Mac away? Does the installation of these SIMMs void your warranty? My SE is new, so it is still under warranty. I will be needing a memory upgrade soon, tho... so anyone know of upgrades that DON'T void the warranty? (Apple's, I suppose.) .......................................................................... Jeff Sullivan University of Pittsburgh pitt!cisunx!jasst3 Intelligent Systems Studies Program jasper@PittVMS (BITNET) Graduate Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) (09/23/87)
In article <3902@cisunx.UUCP> jasst3@cisunx.UUCP (sullivan jeffrey a.) writes: >Does anyone know anything about the $199 1Meg SIMMs being sold by MacProducts >USA (800-MAC-DISK)? It says "over 4000 upgrades completed", and "30 money- >back guarantee", but I don't know the company who makes them. Also, are they >user-installed, or do you have to send your Mac away? > >Does the installation of these SIMMs void your warranty? My SE is new, so it >is still under warranty. I will be needing a memory upgrade soon, tho... so >anyone know of upgrades that DON'T void the warranty? (Apple's, I suppose.) > >Jeff Sullivan University of Pittsburgh >pitt!cisunx!jasst3 Intelligent Systems Studies Program >jasper@PittVMS (BITNET) Graduate Student *********************************************************************** ******* This is from a random interested user and has nothing ******** ******* to do with my association with apple ******** *********************************************************************** I just called and asked about 1 Meg SIMMs and the scoop is that they are selling 120 NS 1 Meg SIMMS (good for Plus, SE or II) for $249 a piece. In other words, you need to pop $498 to add 2 Meg or a grand to upgrade to 4 Meg. The upgrade is user installed and will probably void your warranty if it hasn't already expired. About the only way to avoid voiding the warranty is to have an apple certified dealer install it. If you can talk one into installing these cheaper simms it shouldn't void the warranty. As to the quoted $199 price "That was an earlier price and we were unable to get the chips at that price." You decide whether or not it's misadvertisement. It doesn't appear that they ever had any... Still looks like a bargain to me if you don't mind dealing with folks who will quote a price they can't meet. -- David W. Berry dwb@well.uucp dwb@Delphi dwb@apple.com 293-0752@408.MaBell
korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) (09/23/87)
In <6319@apple.UUCP>, dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) said: >In article <3902@cisunx.UUCP> jasst3@cisunx.UUCP (sullivan jeffrey a.) writes: >>Does anyone know anything about the $199 1Meg SIMMs being sold by MacProducts >>USA (800-MAC-DISK)? >... > I just called and asked about 1 Meg SIMMs and the scoop is that they >are selling 120 NS 1 Meg SIMMS (good for Plus, SE or II) for $249 a piece. >In other words, you need to pop $498 to add 2 Meg or a grand to upgrade to >4 Meg. >... > As to the quoted $199 price "That was an earlier price and we >were unable to get the chips at that price." You decide whether or not >it's misadvertisement. It doesn't appear that they ever had any... > Still looks like a bargain to me if you don't mind dealing with >folks who will quote a price they can't meet. In all fairness Dave, their advertizements may have gone out 6 weeks ago, just prior to the 1 Megabit chip market went kablowie. There was one week in which I could get ahold of 1 Megabit chips at $15/chip, and two weeks later that price was $25/chip, and fast climbing to $32/chip. Toshiba makes some 60% of these chips, and now with them temporarily out of the US market, the other vendors are getting a windfall profit b/c they can charge the bigger corporations who will easily eat up most of the remaining 40% of the chip supply. Muliplying it out, $249 is an *excellent* price for those SIMMs. But... that price may be completely out of line in 3 months, depending upon what Capitol Hill decides, and how the other 1 Megabit chip vendors react. Peter -- Peter "Arrgh" Korn korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn