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>I've also heard that the ram factory (& come on surely one factory does NOT make the worlds entire RAM supply!) was nowhere near the quake zone.< Yeah, the quake destroyed the plant that manufacturers 50% of the supply of resin that the chips are in (the black stuff). >For about the last four or five years now there has been one myth after another about why Ram prices have remained high (or even gone up). Personally I have my suspicions that we're all being conned.< Every other piece of hardware in the industry has decreased in price except memory. Back in 1989 you could buy a 100MB Quantum HD for $999, for that price you can get a 4.3GB model today. Memory back then was $35/MB for ZIPs for my Amiga 3000, today a 4MB SIMM is still $125. I think it is the bastards at Micron. They are the only American manufacturer of RAM, if I remember correctly, back in the late 80's they put the government on the Japenese for "dumping" RAM below US prices. So tariffs were mentioned and prices have stayed at a steady level since then. It is ridiculous.