I just wanted to plug Mushkin.
I’ve been a fan for a while because their price for PerfectMatch Mac memory (which used to be such a commodity it was usually twice the price of comparable memory) has gotten ever cheaper, and you can now load out any newer iMac or Macbook [Pro] with 4GB of RAM for < $100, typically < $90.
Ever since the 2008 Mac Pros came out and I got mine, I’ve been on the lookout for 800Mhz FB-DIMM memory to load it out with. Finally not being able to take the sluggishness of such a high performance machine (I tend to stretch my Macs…2-3 Windows VMs, and anywhere from 6 – 18 apps open and doing stuff at any given time…) I took the hit and ordered 2GB of ram to complement the included 2GB of RAM already in place. Newegg promptly dropped the price $10 AND bumped the rebate amount by $10, like literally within hours of me ordering the memory, effectively screwing me out of $20. To add insult to injury, the damned DIMMs didn’t work when i got them! They were DOA!
First i submitted an RMA with newegg, which I found they wnated to charge me for shipping back. Then I filed an RMA with Mushkin, hoping they would be willing to foot the shipping. Then I found a number in a customer review response on newegg and called the company rep who was promising to make good on some bad 4GB kits. Turns out Mushkin had a couple of bad batches and they knew about them, but found out too late to recall the shipments apparently. They FedEx Overnighted me a new pair, given the size and weight of the box, that alone cost them ~$40. I promptly canceled the newegg RMA. They forgot to put a return label in the box, so they USPSed a label, a Mushkin T-Shirt and some pens. Color me easily impressed, but they took the time and tried to make good on it, about the only thing they could have done to make it better was to ship me a 4GB kit instead of the 2GB kit i bought.
Kudos to Mushkin. If newegg keeps dropping the price of the 4GB kits and I pick up a decent job over the summer my Pro will probably jump to 8, or maybe even 12GB of RAM. Eat that all you 32-bit, 3GB memory cap, Windows XP lusers!! :p