Micron Masters
I fancy upgrading my iMac’s memroirs to 2GB, I fear it would be an improvement to certain scenarios, particularly when several large apps are running via rosetta (some eat up memory like clients with their slappers (???)). So yeah, I took out the stick of RAM which I might add is SO freaking DIM! In order to check the brand and shit, took a picture of it too as you can see. Took a while to figure out the brand because I only had a never seen before logo to go on. Turns out its by Micron, who it also turns out are the same people as Crucial. I guess Micron is the company and Crucial is the retail brand, they probably think it sounds hip and MTV-like. Problem is Crucial charge an absolute fortune for this particular spec, 117 GBP, which is only around 20GBP less than Apple themselves charged when kitting out the iMac.
Reason I would prefer to get the same brand is because quite a lot of peeps say you should always match brands when using 2 or more sticks in the same machine. But d’ya know what, I reckon they’re just talking bullshit, I bet they’re sys admin dudes who always have their employers paying twice what they should for the company’s IT dept just because they’re techno snobs. Anyway I found this at Scan, it’s exactly the same specs as far as I can tell, but its over half the price! It’s out of stock at the moment but I’ve ordered it anyway. We’ll see.
I’ve really fancied getting a graphics tablet for quite some time, don’t really need one but i just really fancy giving one a try. Problem is they aren’t really “giving it a try” type prices. It’s all because there’s only one company making them, Wacom, so they can basically charge what the hell they like, and because its mostly profitable design firms buying them they get away with the inflated prices. Only A6 sized tablets are anywhere near affordable. I would really only want an A5 tablet but they cost at least 140 GBP. Wacom have an A6 tablet with a retail price of 75 GBP, the Graphire4. So anyway, in one of my weird impulsive moods I discovered a slighty older model; Graphire3, still only A6, but going on ebay so I gave a conservative bid and ended up winning it. Was only 35 GBP, bet yers I never use it though. haha.
