in december, i ordered a shiny new apple macbook for work. i went for the 13″ 2.2 ghz model (small size is important to me) and wanted to outfit it a little better than it comes stock. specifically, i wanted the 250gb hard drive and some additional ram.

i don’t remember the exact price at this moment, but to upgrade the macbook from the standard 1gb of ram to 4gb was going to add over $700 to the cost. since i was also about to place a huge order for pc ram (for work), i checked the pricing from our preferred ram vendor, silicon mountain memory. for 4gb of ram for the macbook, the standard price was right about $130. because of the huge order of ram that i was placing, i actually got it for just over $100 (bulk discounts ftw!).

to have ordered the same thing from apple would have been a huge waste of money.

note: i’m not affiliated with silicon mountain memory other than as a happy customer.