DDR RAM more expensive than DDR2 RAM?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:27:42PM -0700, E K wrote:
> I went to Spadina and College area looking for a RAM to upgrade an old laptop. To my surprise, I found out that the older and slower DDR module is way more expensive than the newer and better DDR2.
> 
> The guys explained the pricing in terms of demand and supply. However, I had expected the demand for memory upgrade to be highly elastic which means higher price will discourage people from upgrading (specially in the light of getting a new one for at such cheap price and the complication of upgrading) and reduce the demand which in turn increases enviromental waste.

Yep.  Whatever ram is most commonly used is cheapest.  That is NOT
DDR anymore.  DDR2 and increasingly DDR3 is now the standard ram.

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