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 Fri 22 Aug 14 12:22 
 Desktop memory prices - Focusless
When I bought 2x2GB DDR3 1600MHz from eBuyer in Jan 2012, it was £15. At the moment a single 4GB stick is double that.

Anyone who watches these things know if this is a temporary blip, or was I just lucky?
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 12:57 
 Desktop memory prices - spamcan61
Something of an upwards trend at the moment, not helped by a fire at a Hynix factory restricting supply. I recall buying a single 4GB stick for my laptop for around 14 quid about 2 years ago, as you say double that now.
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 14:33 
 Desktop memory prices - smokie
And yet SSD disks seem to be falling, all they are is a large lump of memory.
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 15:11 
 Desktop memory prices - Focusless
>> ...large lump of memory.

...but of different technology?
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 16:24 
 Desktop memory prices - rtj70
Yes SSD's being a variant of flash memory. Until maybe 12-18 months ago most performance drives aimed at consumers would be MLC NAND but a lot are now TLC NAND with over provisioning to overcome the significantly lower number of times you can re-write them.

Samsung's latest TLC based SSD's have actually overcome some of the weaknesses of TLC by increasing the cell physical size using a larger process size and stacking the V-NAND in a 3D format.

DDR RAM is of course volatile memory...
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 19:13 
 Desktop memory prices - Roger.
Perhaps the answer is to have system & program files on SSD and all stuff you keep on hard drive?
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 20:32 
 Desktop memory prices - rtj70
>> Perhaps the answer is to have system & program files on SSD and all stuff
>> you keep on hard drive?
>>

Or just a backup elsewhere? The latest TLC based NAND (not the 3D V-NAND from Samsung) will be fine for a lot of writes. There's wear levelling etc going on.
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 23:09 
 Desktop memory prices - smokie
"Perhaps the answer is to have system & program files on SSD and all stuff you keep on hard drive?"

Yeah that's what I've got. In fact I recently bought a Samsung PRO 512Gb to replace the three aging SSDs in my machine. Stuff I keep is on 2Tb hard drives in caddies. backed up onto the NAS.
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 21:17 
 Desktop memory prices - Kevin
>DDR RAM is of course volatile memory...

You'll be surprised what's in the pipeline for late 2015.
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 Fri 22 Aug 14 22:14 
 Desktop memory prices - rtj70
>> >DDR RAM is of course volatile memory...
>>
>> You'll be surprised what's in the pipeline for late 2015.
>>

No I won't :-) Some interesting alternatives. Some companies need their new (delayed) alternatives to make a difference for them.
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 Sat 23 Aug 14 13:03 
 Desktop memory prices - Focusless
New(-ish) work laptop 'ultrabook' only has a 240GB SSD. It's mostly very nice - i5, 12.5" 1366x768 touch screen, 6+ hour battery life, and only 1.5kg.

But given it retails for £1000+, why Lenovo have decided to only provide a mousepad without separate mouse buttons is a mystery - it's a real PITA. Hopefully someone from Lenovo will be reading this... :)
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 Sun 24 Aug 14 19:09 
 Desktop memory prices - RattleandSmoke
Desktop DDR3 RAM has been increasing a lot in the past year, glad I got my 16GB of RAM when it was cheap 18 months ago :D. That said I tend to use my Lenovo X200 more than my desktop these days and that only has 3GB of RAM but is fine.
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 Sun 24 Aug 14 22:16 
 Desktop memory prices - rtj70
Mt Macbook Pro 13" Retina was about the same price then (to me) but better specified. And it does not have separate buttons.... does the Lenovo work in a similar way I wonder? The touch pad is multi-touch for starters maybe? Physically depressing the mouse pad on a Macbook is the same as clicking.

Even my old work laptop supports tapping the touchpad to emulate a click.
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