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I’ve had it up to here with accusations of an “Apple tax”, but when shopping for memory today, I just couldn’t fail to relay this bit of info:

Kingston Value RAM 2 x 1GB: $276
Samsung (mentioned as identical to Apple shipping modules) 2 x 1GB: $676
(Both PC2-5300 DDR2 SO-DIMM 667 MHz, 200-pin. Prices from varying Swedish web shops, translated to USD for her pleasure.)

So, the Apple RAM tax is precisely $400. And a big horse’s head outside 1 Infinite Loop for not shipping the MacBook in single-slot memory configurations. (I could have just bought an extra 1GB module, but since I have 2 x 512MB, I have to buy two modules and sell the others.) (Update: Hosey proposes that the horse’s head goes in the 1 Infinite Pool. I’ll keep that in mind.)

So this is the new look. Blue header, grey background, all sans-serif, comments by me marked, ads less in your face, and so on. Let me know what you think.

The original version was fine, but now Peter Hosey, creator of various awesome produce, has made a self-randomizing WWDC bingo board. Go Postscript and Turing-completeness.

A redesign is about to commence. If something’s weird, you know why.

Also, have an image: