OEM RAM Pricing Complaints

The cluster focuses on discussions criticizing the high prices manufacturers like Apple, Dell, and Lenovo charge for RAM upgrades in laptops and PCs, contrasted with much cheaper retail prices for equivalent RAM modules.

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Sample Comments

umvi Oct 16, 2025 View on HN

It's pretty close to double. Sorry, but I just can't justify $400 for a measly 16GB of RAM

dwighttk Mar 5, 2025 View on HN

Maybe .1% of tasks need this RAM, why are they charging so much?

cs02rm0 Feb 27, 2020 View on HN

Because of falling RAM prices, but no price cut for the one with even more RAM?

blindriver Dec 4, 2025 View on HN

I bought 64 GB DDR4 RAM for $189 in 2022. The exact same memory is now almost $600 on Amazon. How can this not impact PC sales and the sale of other electronics?

nightski Jul 6, 2022 View on HN

There is when they are paying $200 for 8GB of ram.

khuey Aug 11, 2025 View on HN

The upcharge for decent specs, especially on RAM, is insane. I just checked Dell and upgrading from the base 16GB of RAM to 64GB of RAM on their generic tower costs $450. You can buy 2x32GB DIMMs of the same speed for less than half of that.

VMG Aug 28, 2011 View on HN

Memory? Really? At ~$7 per Gigabyte of RAM I doubt that.

jak92 Mar 19, 2019 View on HN

What's the street price for that much ram?

I paid 380€ for 96G DDR5 6400. Decent RAM was around 120€ per 32GB a year ago.

Dracophoenix Aug 24, 2021 View on HN

Which RAM brand and configuration are you using? How did it cost?