Originally Posted By: Dignan
Also, continuing with the Apple memory prices we were talking about before, notice that now you can upgrade the memory in the Mac Pro at around $150 for 3GB. Just two days ago it was $500 for 2GB. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that they're finally selling for close to market value, but this makes me wonder why Apple went so long without adjusting their prices on the old Mac Pros.

Not sure about the "middle generation" Mac Pros, but my "first generation" Mac Pro uses FB-DIMMs, which even on the open market are more expensive than the normal DDR3 ECC SDRAM DIMMs in the Nehalem Mac Pros (although by less of a margin than when they first came out).

Peter