(3putt in South Carolina) wrote:

Now that Vista will be available, and requiring more memory,
the manufacturers will be taking advantage of us for awhile.

Vista's unlikely to be a big factor. Relatively few people will be
running it for a long time to come (buyers of new PCs & premature
adopters only). More important is probably the introduction of DDR2
memory, so less DDR memory is being produced. That means supplies of
both get pinched and prices of both go up.

Andrew McP