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Corsair has two new lines
CORSAIR HAD THE usual lineup of goodies at CeBIT, with a couple bigger than the others. No, not just 32G memory sticks, two new lines of memory.
The first thing is the fastest, or at least the fastest claimed at the show, DDR3 2133 with 8-8-8-24 timings. The only question most people have is how much quantity can they put out, Corsair claims it will not be a problem.
Corsair HX1000W PSU
The next thing in the lineup is the power supplies. Corsair now does a 1000W PSU, their first in the 4 digit range. They are proud enough of it to pack in a 5 year warranty, so it should last basically forever. They are going to retail for $279, not bad for a high end PSU.
Staying on the evolution track, we have bigger memory sticks. The Voyager and Survivor lines are both now at 32G but the outward packaging did not change at all. The Voyager GT has hit the 16G mark with no outward changes as well.
Corsair Gaming memory retail package
Not content with tweaks, Corsair launched two new products. The main one is a new memory line called Gaming. This is a repackaged version of the standard XMS memory, but done in a retail package aimed at the Best Buy set. The thought is that your average nitwit doesn't have a clue as to what they want, and the average retail goon does more harm than good, so they are packaging their way out of things. Not a bad idea.
The other new part, and line, is low latency Mac memory. Corsair claims that Macs are very latency sensitive, more so than PCs, because of OSX. So, they made special SO-DIMMs at DDR2 667 4-4-4-12 made for that market. If it is true, they might have a winner here. Anyone got links to tests on this?
Overall, it was a good showing for Corsair. They look to be putting out parts that are useful and needed, not just higher clocked. You can't argue with that. ยต
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lol ya, 1kw PSUs, we need more of those.
The "Low Profile Mac Memory" schpeel is the same tactic memory companies have done for years. Take your standard JDEC offering, which will work in Macs just fine, slap a Mac sticker on it and charge 1.5-3 times more. 

A Mac memory controller works just like a PC one in regards to timings - it reads the SPD and goes off of that. You don't need "special" Mac memory made in a special Mac only factory and blessed with holy Mac water (Holy machine oil actually ;). The only thing "Mac specific" about these might be that they'll only use 1.8-1.95v instead of an unrealistic (for a Mac anyway) voltage of 2.1v.

Macs were only once picky with high density non-JDEC FPM, EDO, SDRAM, & DDR DIMMS - this has never been an issue with DDR2. At the same most Intel boards before the DDR age didn't particularly like odd ball El Cheapo DIMMs and SIMMs anyways. At one point in time, Apple released some firmware updates that made non-JDEC spec memory or memory without proper SPD information "disappear" to the system. This annoyed some people as you'd imagine and Mac memory retailers got a new marketing toy. Ironically enough, most of the disabled memory came from "Mac Memory Specialists" who in turn blamed "evil generic memory." Memory sellers (especially Mac specific ones) still use this to scare people into buying "Mac memory."
They slacked by not slaping a ESA certified sticker on the PSU
Yeah but I guess they'll still buy it for the sticker.
You want to talk about ripping off Mac users for memory take a look at the prices on apple.com.

pretty much all other "Mac Memory Specialists" sell it for less.