DDR RAM more expensive than DDR2 RAM?

[Digimer]

On 10-05-28 11:09 AM, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2010, Digimer wrote:
>
>> Going back to the 30 pin days, I always saw RAM start expensive, drop
>> to a point and then go back up. I've yet to see a RAM technology where
>> it's price couldn't be graphed as a "U" shape.
>>
>> It's true, fewer people want the old technology. However, even less
>> people make it, so, the price goes up.
>
> This exactly matches my experience since the 30 pin days as well.
>
> People coming in for older ram see the higher price, do their sums and
> realise that upgrading the system/motherboard offes a better deal[1]. As
> a result this process is a positive feedback loop.
>
> The computer industry is responsible for an enormous amount of hardware
> waste.
>
> [1] Newer, faster system with as much ram as they were going to buy, for
> not too much more.
>
> Rob

Perhaps, but that's always been the way, to some degree or another, in 
all manufactured goods industries.

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