Yes, that's what I've thought, and as I could swap my through hole (THT) RAM with this SMD RAM with a friend (for a price of upgrading one of his 2 MB SMD RAM for him), that's what I did - skipped to try the THT, went straight to SMD. But the real motivator here was that I couldn't find the THT chips to buy, but I could get those SMD ones, so also helped with the decision.
Thank you both