it was cheaper before i5 launch and that includes the low voltage 1.5v sticks. 2x2Gb was £50 now £70-£80.

I think it’s a ploy to try to get those dam Germans out of the memory market, you know if you give them the chance they’ll try to take over the world! eh?

If these companies are so damn poor, why is the Taiwanese government subsidizing them to provide *cheaper* prices? And wouldn't it be beneficial, not to mention "natural" to allow some of these floundering companies to fail and therefore have a scarcity of products in order to raise prices and in turn, sustain better profits?

I like the cheap DRAM prices, but these subsidies just seem idiotic from an economics point of view.

without grease I might add

Ya i hope the prices of rams stay cheap. When Vista come out the prices of rams went thru the dam roof. I found old receipt of corsair XMS ddr2 800Mhz rams i bought when vista come out and it was $345 after 12 months the same rams are $40. OMG i couldnt beleive it. Computer companies like to shaft the consummer. Rams got caught ripping off consummer. AT/Nvidia got caught ripping off consummer. LCD maker got caught ripping of consummer. Always we have to bent over and take it up the ass.