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Aug. 8th, 2005 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqPricing makes no sense sometimes.
While I was out for lunch today I stopped in at a local camera store where they have pretty good prices on things like memory cards, and I had a look at the current prices for XD cards. The prices went like this:
128MB -- $39
256MB -- $59
512MB -- $109
1024MB -- $139
Doing a quick breakdown of the cost per MB, it comes out like this:
30.5¢ per MB
23.0¢ per MB
21.3¢ per MB
13.6¢ per MB
The price drop is far from linear; a fact that becomes very apparent if you graph the data out. One is considerably better off buying a 256MB card over a 128MB, but the savings of going to a 512MB card are marginal. On the other hand, the 1GB card is by by far the best bang for the buck.
On the plus side we've reached the point where buying a larger card is more cost effective than buying two of the cards a size down, but I still wonder why the 128 and 512 are such comparatively lousy buys.
While I was out for lunch today I stopped in at a local camera store where they have pretty good prices on things like memory cards, and I had a look at the current prices for XD cards. The prices went like this:
128MB -- $39
256MB -- $59
512MB -- $109
1024MB -- $139
Doing a quick breakdown of the cost per MB, it comes out like this:
30.5¢ per MB
23.0¢ per MB
21.3¢ per MB
13.6¢ per MB
The price drop is far from linear; a fact that becomes very apparent if you graph the data out. One is considerably better off buying a 256MB card over a 128MB, but the savings of going to a 512MB card are marginal. On the other hand, the 1GB card is by by far the best bang for the buck.
On the plus side we've reached the point where buying a larger card is more cost effective than buying two of the cards a size down, but I still wonder why the 128 and 512 are such comparatively lousy buys.
