[ale] Slightly OT: Thrilled with 4AllMemory.com replacement

Jerald Sheets questy at gmail.com
Thu Jun 10 09:13:23 EDT 2021


Now that’s strange.  

I’m going back a ways, but the last few PC/Linux machines I built were both nearly 3k, and that’s dating back into the 90’s. I guess you have beer tastes while I waste money.  :-D

> On Jun 9, 2021, at 8:52 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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> My first 16M dimm was deal of the month $499. The second was $79 a mere 14 months later. The third one, 16 months later was free with a $50 scanner.
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> I've had really good customer service from MicroCenter. BestBuy is at the opposite end of that spectrum. I won't set foot in there ever again.
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> I don't like to think about what I've spent on hardware over the years. I could be in a far larger house. The old saying "every computer I want is $5000" is no longer true for me. The last time I spec'ed out a box for me it was nearly $14k! Ok. So rackmount servers are overkill with dual Epyc CPUs and a total boat load of RAM, NVME, and a V100. But it's what I want!
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