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RAM BY Manufacturer RAM BY TECHNOLOGY audio& Video Recording STORAGE & Hard Drives Batteries & Power FORMS terms Prices: are in Canadian Dollars, and are subject to change without notice. please Email to confirm price before ordering. GST is extra in Canada, GST & PST are extra in BC & QC, HST in NB, NS & NF. EMAIL your order or fax to (250) 385-6267 or use the SECURE ORDER FORM. Make sure to include the make and model of your machine, your full shippping address, phone number, correct email address, the number, expiry date and name on your credit card plus the card billing address and phone if different from shipping address. Payment accepted by VISA or Mastercard or Canadian bank Interac Email Transfer. It must be your credit card and the card billing address and shipping addresses must match. For your protection, we may ask for additional proof of ID to be faxed. Third party address shipments require faxed confirmation. PayPal accepted with a +3% service charge, shipped to verified address only. Gov't, Education and Corporate PO's accepted on prior approval of credit only. Download the Credit Application form and fax to (250) 385-6267 Shipping & handling: $7.99 shipping for RAM via Expedited Post (4 - 8 days) or FREE with your order of $300 or more, Shipping is at buyer's risk, Shipping insurance is 1.5% extra on the goods value or by quote - if declined, the buyer assumes all risk of loss or damage. Signature is required for insured parcels. Installation: Outside of Canada or the USA? We generally sell
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(August 8 2003) Any tennis player knows there is one specific area on their racquet that gives the best control and power - this is the "sweet spot". Hitting the ball with other areas will work, just not with optimum efficiency. The Sweet Spot in computing is the position in a product line or category which gives the best balance of performance and price. In fact, most industries have Sweet Spots, especially if they are technology driven, with constant introduction of new, better products, and a lowering trend in prices. Photography, home entertainment, and power tools are good examples of industries with definite sweet spots. The Sweet Spot is seldom at the leading edge of technology - newly introduced products tend to have a disproportionately high cost, and a high rate of failure compared to more mature products. Early adopters, those people who must have the latest thing, pay top dollar and take the risk of de-bugging high end products for the rest of us. It's not called the "bleeding edge" for nothing. The smart purchaser will look at products just behind the crest of the wave, usually at 75 - 90% of the performance of the latest, greatest units, but often at as much as 50% off the high-end price. Of course, personal preference plays a role here. If you play three-dimensional computer games, and getting 10 more frames per second out of Quake or Doom at full anti-aliasing, full ansiotropic filtering and high screen resolution is critical for you, the extra $300 for a top-end video card is where your personal sweet spot will be. The trick is not to get caught in the marketing hype, but to know where your value really comes from. Then put your money where you get the most return. Some examples: Hard drives - the sweet spot is now (and has been for some time) just around $200.00. In 2002 that got you an 80 Gb 7200 RPM IDE hard drive with a 2 Gb on-board cache. Today, the $200 Sweet Spot is a 120 Gb 7200 RPM IDE hard drive with an 8 Mb on-board cache and fluid bearings (for low noise). This means that both performance and capacity have improved for the same price. In six months, I suspect the $200 Sweet Spot will get you a 160 Gb drive. If we plot a graph of performance vs. dollars and capacity vs. dollars, we're looking for the point of maximum performance/capacity, just before the pricing curve angles sharply up.
Serial ATA hard drives are a hot item right now - they offer a minor improvement in speed, but cost 15% - 25% more per Gb. They are leading edge today, and in short supply, so they command a premium price. If you can defer a purchase 3 - 6 months, you'll see the market mature some and the SATA pricing will stabilize at a lower level. Memory - The sweet spot for most types of memory is the 512Mb RAM module. 1 Gb modules are available, but still overpriced. In the case of memory, we are faced with two constraints 1) The way operating systems and programs are developed, more memory (up to 1 Gb) is almost always better 2) There are limits imposed by the computer - only a limited number of slots you can put memory in, and the machine may be restricted in the size of module it can recognize. Laptops, for example, commonly have two slots. If you were to fill your laptop with two 256 Mb modules, when it came time to upgrade, you would have to remove and dispose of one or both of the 256's to make room for 512's. Better to have started with the highest density module in the first place. Laptop memory isn't on the chart below, because the 1 Gb modules were literally off the scale ($1,400 - $1,800).
(Also, if you are buying a new machine, do check memory prices with us before placing the order - our lifetime warranty RAM is usually much more cost-effective than the manufacturers') Real life example - we have recently built a PC for our internal use for database and music applications. These can be processor intensive, so we wanted a near-top end performance without the top end price. Here's a table comparing the top end choices with the Sweet Spot choices we made:
We are indeed giving up about 20% in performance, but at a 44% savings. And that performance loss will only be apparent at the highest workloads; about 98% of the time we'll never see the deficit. We're not concerned about graphic performance for our particular applications, but the Radeon 9600 Pro will do very well for occasional gaming and can drive two monitors simultaneously. Motherboards with the Intel 865PE chipset are proving to be almost as fast as those with the more expensive 875 chipset. One thing that we didn't make any compromise on is the case: the Antec Sonata case is built specifically for quiet operation, as are the Seagate Barracuda V hard drives. This is what we do - we know the computer industry, and we can help you place your computer and upgrade purchases squarely into the Sweet Spot, to make best use of your money. Call us for a consultation. Trevor Inkpen Call Trevor
Inkpen at Quill Services Ltd. for business
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