Question

I have a late-2008 unibody macbook model with 2 GB of ram. I am looking to upgrade to 4 GB of ram. I looked about a month ago at Other World Computing's 4 GB upgrade kit and I remember it being around $80.

I looked today, finally getting to buy it and it went up to almost $100. I found another site, memoryupgrade.pro that calls itself "Pro memory upgrade" and it looks legitimate - it sells the memory for around $80 in its own brand.

The only thing is, I haven't been able to find any reviews about it, and I'm not sure if it actually is reliable.

Does anybody have any experience with this site?
Does anybody have any other suggestions for buying macbook memory?
I have friends who bought from OWC and were happy, should I just spend the extra $30 (including shipping) and buy from them?

Answer 1

You might like to try using crucial.com first to get information about the types of memory modules this macbook uses, which would probably be DDR3 1066mhz SO-DIMMs (edit it if I'm wrong). You might like their price, or buy it from NewEgg.com. I trust a number of sites but I won't list them all, I haven't heard of the sites you mention (which you should bold or something) and therefor would recommend you don't trust them. Having once known someone who sells used parts found on the curb as though they were good as new, I just can't trust everyone anymore.

Generally I would recommend you try to get reviews from google's shopping search. I find they do have 1 review. It is positive, but I like to use sites reviewed by the thousands.

Considering the claims of the .pro tld to make registration cost more and to guarantee yanking of "disbarred" professionals, I would assume the owner has a desire to appear "legit" shall we say. This actually doesn't help convince me.

Here's some demographics, memoryupgrade.pro 10.4k/m, 18004memory.com 3.2k/m, newegg.com 2600k/m crucial.com 526.1k/m; I actually trust the latter three, so demographics alone don't explain everything, as they can be bought. 18004memory (formerly coast to coast memory) probably gets more phone orders than online ones.

Answer 2

Diamblin has it on the nose...

But I would like to point out Kingston & Crucial both have warranties, sometimes lifetime warranties on their products.

I actually ran into a situation where my Mac Pro was putting out CRC errors on the new memory I purchased 6 months ago, but since they were only logged in the console, I never saw the error.... Until by chance, I noticed it...(Thank gosh for ECC Memory in the Mac Pro's... But of course, if I didn't have ECC, I might have noticed it earlier)

Crucial exchanged the memory without any issue, I just had to wait for it be delivered back to Crucial... (They wanted to charge for cross-shipping)....

So, bargin memory maybe good, but make sure that the specs are the same... And keep in mind, anyone can sell memory, but the larger companies actually test the products and/or manufacture the products....

I almost always purchase Kingston or Crucial.... They aren't that much more expensive, typically.