Don't worry. The ram price will further drop, due to there will be more supply coming out.

Many new 12 inch factories will start production this year. And they will be producing DDR2 and other type of rams, such as ddr3 and graphics ram. Not only that. 12 inch factory will be using newer technology that will be easier and cheaper to produce higher speed ram. Expect by end of the year, DD2-800 will be the standard ram speed.

Right now, ddr2-667 is almost same price as ddr2-533. But few months back, there is a huge price difference.

I read somewhere that Hynix has normal 1GB DDR2 ram chip (16 pieces on a module will be 2GB ram) that can do ddr2-1000 easily. And the rams were running 4 pieces 2GB module for total 8GB at ddr2-1000 speed.

Vista appears to be no help in ram demanding. So good for us.