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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 01:59pm on 09/02/2009
Good to know! Saved me serious money.

Does installing RAM yourself violate the warranty in any way?

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posted by [identity profile] xorphus.livejournal.com at 03:52pm on 09/02/2009
No.
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posted by [identity profile] boxninja.livejournal.com at 06:38pm on 09/02/2009
When I got my PowerBook from Apple I opened up the back to take out the Apple RAM and replace it with my Crucial.com RAM. Turns out the two RAM chips that Apple had put in that I then took out were Crucial chips too.

RAM direct from Crucial.com has been a solid and pleasant experience for me over my iBook, Cube, PowerBook and MacBook, as well as various PCs.

Oh, to install RAM follow these instructions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1651

For best performance make sure the chips are of equal size.
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posted by [personal profile] evilmagnus at 07:23pm on 09/02/2009
No (Specifically, it's illegal in many places to even try that shit), and another thumbs-up for Crucial RAM.
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posted by [personal profile] evilmagnus at 07:26pm on 09/02/2009
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).

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