The RAM price rollercoaster peaked this summer and started a downward slide, with 512 megabit chips having lost 25 percent of their market value in just a few days. What does it mean for you? The DIY crowd will see discounted sticks soon enough, but in the immediate future, it's the big contract buyers, like Dell and HP, that will get the benefits.
Typically, these big desktop manufacturers don't cut prices when RAM's price nosedives, but instead use it as a springboard to bump the specifications of their mainstream offerings. In other words, that vaguely-defined "entry level" for home and business desktops might well soon include 2GB of memory, with the el cheapo sub-$500 models no longer saddling Windows Vista with the bare minimum it needs to work right. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Inspiron 530 series!
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