On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Phil Jeffrey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I don't think that anybody has shown a significant performance difference on Apple memory vs a reasonable 3rd party supplier. Apple may potentially have better quality controls but places like Crucial essentially have lifetime warranties on their memory. I use Crucial at home and at work. [...]

sure, I agree with all this

the only other point I really wanted to make is to be cautious when configuring a computer on the Apple website, where they might say for memory "DDR3 ECC SDRAM" (checked this for a Mac Pro just now) but that is a non-obvious way of, from what I can tell, selling only high end memory when e.g. different CAS latency is available elsewhere - again, not obvious what their CL is (perhaps it is listed somewhere). and maybe other specs apply.