Originally Posted By: Dignan
And I would love to know who buys extra memory from Apple. Those are the most absurd prices I've ever seen from a legitimate retailer. Frankly I'm a bit appalled by them, and that makes me wonder about the price of the entire system. I expect a certain amount of "Apple tax," but $500 for 2GB of memory is robbery.

The same applies over at Dell too. Look up a Precision T7400. It's basically a system that you could spec out similar to the Mac Pro. 2GB to 4GB of RAM costs $460, and thats for slower 667 ram that has been out longer then the 800 mhz sticks the Mac Pro uses. In the end, the Mac Pro still beats Dell on their prices even as the system is now a year old.

OEM memory is almost universally expensive.