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Ok, I'm debating buying this stick of 1 gb ram from Corsair. It's 101 at newegg.com, but only $70 at Fry's (oupost.com).

All the reviews at newegg seem dissapointing, but it seems like all the bad ones are form mac users. Also, usually the two stars would scare me away, but the 512 mb version has really good reviews.

Does anyone have any experience with corsair valueselect memory?

Here's the link. Thanks for your help.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820145012

well, ive never had any problems with corsair, but if everyone is having problems wth them in the macbook i woudl stay away from it, the macbook and the T60 use the same chipset.

Corsair is a top memory company. You may want to be leary of the enterprise line of memory, whether it is Crucial, Kingston, whatever. Value RAM is intended for vendors or persons who build generic PCs. Notebooks tend to be proprietary design and make even more so than desktops made by major PC makers Dell, Epson, IBM, HP, etc. and main memory upgrades can be a mine field of thrown away money, if you do not know a lot about it.

My advice is to visit the Corsair site and use their memory "configurator." Search it for your specific notebook and it will tell you which Corsair modules are compatible. You will even be steered to a few resellers so you can compare prices.

Crucial, the largest memory chip maker in the world, charges a bit more but they do link buyers to resellers and they gaurantee if their configurator designates a particular module and it proves uncompatible, they will refund your money. The general policy these days is exchange but not refund, so Crucial's is a good deal. Kingston gets most of their chipsets from Crucial and they are top notch but usually less expensive than Crucial. Kingston often gives lifetime limited warranties with their modules.