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benlehman ([personal profile] benlehman) wrote2009-02-08 06:19 pm

New Computer thoughts

So my computer is old and beginning to die. Since a small Apple laptop did well last time, I'm thinking about getting a similar machine. There's no more 12" lappies (sadly), so I'm thinking about getting the 13" MacBook w/ 2.4 GHz processor and extra RAM. But I'm flexible. Does anyone else have any suggestions / concerns / things I should know about? I'd be very obliged if you'd share.
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[personal profile] evilmagnus 2009-02-09 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, funny story related to the RAM-violates-warranty thing.

We had a big IBM box. I think it was an H90 or something. Anyway, we wanted more RAM, and Big Blue quoted some tremendous amount of money for it. We quoted Crucial and they gave us the big hoo-ha about how that RAM had not been tested, how it'd cause the machine to catch fire and kill all our children, even the unborn ones, and how it would also void the warranty.

We told them to go suck a fruit and bought Crucial RAM. Cracked the server to install it, and what did we find?

Crucial RAM.

( specifically, both the sticks we ordered, and the sticks in the server, were Micron ECC RAM. Crucial is the direct-mail / consumer branch of Micron).