Going Price For a 32 MB RAM Card For Powerbook 500 Series?

#1 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 - 21:41

The prices I'm seeing on retail sites just don't seem like they can be correct. $80 for a 32 MB RAM card?

I figure that has to be an inflated number, but thought I'd ask around.

#2 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 - 21:45

you should wait till it arrives first. i'd hate for you to spend big $ on ram only to have your box run over by a mail truck.

#3 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 - 21:58

Woe be to the package delivery person that would run over that 540.

There is no way I'm spending $80 on a RAM card, period. I'm just trying to get a feel if that is even a reasonable price given current trends. Honestly, I wouldn't pay more than $30 or $40 for one, so if that is too low of a price range, I'm not even going to bother looking.

#4 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 - 22:00

... but the 540 would still be run over.

#5 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 - 23:15

Esoteric things like this tend to be expensive, but in short, it's not made anymore so it's worth whatever someone will pay for it. Best bet is probably to keep an eye out on ebay and see what turns up. Maybe find a beat up scrapper 540C and you might get lucky with the amount of RAM in it. 32MB was a LOT of RAM when one of these was new, so I suspect modules that large are quite rare.

#6 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 - 00:03

I got lucky

applefool.com[/url]"]This machine features 36 MB RAM and a 320 MB internal hard drive.

#7 Sat, 17 Aug 2013 - 03:52

mcdermd is such a show off

http://applefool.com/applefool/PowerBook_520c.html

lol i think one of those 540c i just sent to mcdermd has 32 megs of ram in it

#8 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 - 01:12

Well, hopefully he'll be interested in selling one of those 32 MB RAM cards

#9 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 - 02:38

Wow 32 Meg's of ram would be sweet I was happy with 8.

#10 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 - 05:32

i checked and my 520c and 540c both have 20megs of ram in them.

#11 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 - 19:30

I snagged two 32 MB RAM cards recently. I guess I got lucky, or they're easier to find than we thought.