Ok, I'm calling foul here. I had a friend who was trying to buy some new RAM for his older system. He is not super-nerdy so he took the RAM stick to Best Buy to

Ok, I'm calling foul here. I had a friend who was trying to buy some new RAM for his older system. He is not super-nerdy so he took the RAM stick to Best Buy to see if they sold a similar module, or could at least tell him what sort of RAM it is. The Geek Squad guy took a look at the module, noticed that it was old, and immediately gave him a pitch about buying a new computer. The the PC platform has arguably a better set of tools and third party components out there to make more use out of old equipment, but Best Buy is still a company that sells computers, and thus make the most money by convincing people to throw out their old systems. It ended up being an RDRAM module and thus could only realistically be found online, but people who are trying to upgrade an old system don't appreciate being given a sales pitch, especially if, god forbid, they are poor.