drake6: Are you one of those Ferengis who gleefully posts, "w00t!! Ordered me 1,000 of them! They better not cancel or I'm suing.", when a web site has an OBVIOUS price error? Do you think that RAM would be FREE if only those mean, ol', price-gouging capitalists would keep the factories running full-throttle until they went bankrupt?!?
Would you please tell the rest of us what your colon looks like, since you're obviously staring at it now?
As prices kept falling, I started wondering, "How the heck are they making money?", and it's clear now that THEY WEREN'T. The mergers and takeovers are meant to allow these companies to SURVIVE, not to sit around and decide how they're gonna f*ck with poor little you.
AMD and Intel are in a ferocious price war, losing money out their arses like no tomorrow, but we've all benefitted by getting faster CPUs, at lower prices, than we'd have if Intel was the only playa in da game. Unfortunately, Intel has been able to threaten/bribe the MAJOR makers like Dell and Gateway to not use AMD stuff. They're selling below cost because they're hoping their bank account can outlast AMD's. Now AMD could cut there prices even more, but they'd be unable to turn a profit, go bankrupt like K-Mart and then what do you have? ONLY Intel Inside! Sound good to you?
RAM is CHEAPER now than it was a year ago!! If you compared the prices from Jan. 2001 to Jan. 2002, you are getting more for less. It's only when you look at the price valley in between that it looks bad, but so the f*ck what?!? If you could've gotten a 512MB stick of RAM in 1995, it would've cost you $20,480!!! That's a NEW CAR! With the price drops over the years, it's like being able to go into a car dealership and buying a NEW CAR for what you'd spend on a pair of PS2 games and a memory card!! Ya dig my meaning?!? THINGS AREN'T THAT BAD!!!
Unless you're an ignorant twit, that is.
I mourn the lack of education that too many people are burdened with. They walk around yelping whatever conspiracy theories that have been inculcated into them (look it up) by liberal politicians and educators to make them willing sheep to whatever cause they want to program the herd for. That's why some people think that a $30 billion dollar tax cut wiped out a $200 billion surplus (Do the MATH, people!) and why some people think that companies should bleed money until they die, so they can save their crack money for crack.
KDOG: You're article didn't stir anything up other than the ignorance and greed of some readers. Thanks for giving a platform to do some schooling from.