Still using SDRAM?

If you are still using a computer that uses PC66/100/133 SDRAM and wee thinking about upgrading the RAM in it, you may want to do it now before it is too late.

Recently I won an auction for a Pentium !!! -based laptop on eBay. I wanted more RAM for it, so I decide to head over to my favorite online computer parts website, newegg.com, to see if they had any 256MB SO-DIMMS that I could use in it for around $25. They had several, but the ones in my price range were incompatible with the laptops that were picky about which RAM used in it (the one that I won falls in to that category). The ones that were compatable were around $50, slo I decided to take a trip over to TigerDirect, and to my surprise they had NO SDRAM in SO-DIMM form, and very few standard DIMMs. After that I went over to crucial.com (a name-brand memory manufacturer where I have bought laptop memory before), and to my surprise again, they didn't even list the model number for that laptop. This meant that they no longer made/ sold the type of RAM that this laptop uses (PC100/PC133). This also indicated that the ram at Newegg was old stock. I then did some looking around the Google Product search and found nothing but cheap incompatible RAM, and overpriced old stock. In the end I bought a refurbished OEM stick on eBay for $11.99 USD.

I am still waiting on said laptop, but the RAM came today. When the laptop arrives, and I have some time to tinker with it I plan on posting a review of its capabilities and my thoughts on its overall build.