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Hi,

I would like to upgrade my 2623DDU to 3GB. While Crucial still has these listed at some outrageous price (a little under $1800 as of this morning!), there's a few others listed on dealram.com that seem a bit more reasonable (~$300).

Has anyone had any experiences with these chips?

Thanks,

Jason

I don't have experience with 2gb Memory modules, but why do you need 3gb RAM? 2gb is plenty for anything out there that you would be doing on a notebook anyways. I would suggest waiting for 2gb module prices to come down before investing $300 in something that, right now, wont be taken advantage of.

I guess I am one of those rarities - I actually do have a use for 3GB of RAM. I'm working on the development of some high-performance memory-based applications, and need to be able to simulate within my development environment (which includes my T60p) something similar to a server environment.

The extra memory will give me more breathing room when I have the application + the surrounding development tools running, and will also give me the ability to disable swapping during certain benchmarking/performance testing scenarios.

That said - I do have 1.5GB in my T60p right now. I could hold out with that for a bit longer, however the upgrade would definitely increase my productivity.

Wow, that's interesting, I wouldn't have thought that there would be a legitimate use for >2gb ram, but it seems you actually have one!

jb_973 .. if u feel that u need it then go ahead and buy it .. dont hasitate ..

Hi jb_973,

I would be careful, these are all 2x1GB Kit. This is so anoying, I am also searching for a 2 GB Memory module, but I think nobody has one so far. The cruicial offer is not available at the moment. It was available a few weeks ago for about 700 USD.
There is on module from transcend which costs about the same, but it is a only 533 module, so not the maximum performance the chipset would provide.

It would be great if somebody could comment only if he or she has such a module, and not always ask why do you need it, we had that too often.

freakwave - thanks for the warning. I saw a 2GB listed on dealram (for sale at buy.com) - but after drilling down to the details, it listed as 2 x 1GB sticks. Definitely not what I had in mind!

I wonder why these chips are in such short supply right now?

jb_973 wrote:
I wonder why these chips are in such short supply right now?

Because the density of the ICs needed to shove 2GB of addressable memory on something as small as a sodimm is incredible?

Its new technology... itll come, but like all new technology, its rare when its launched and insanely expensive.