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danceswithgary) wrote2007-11-20 07:12 pm
danceswithgary) wrote2007-11-20 07:12 pm
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Doing Happy Dance of Memory Upgrade
I'd finally hit the limit on my patience on my 'good enough' laptop I use to write and connect to the Internet. It was adequate until I started using Photoshop and now Audacity. I'd accepted the fact that my bigger Word files took time to open and time to close, but when I had to reboot for the umpteenth time after using Yahoo Messenger and Photoshop and Opera and Word all at the same time and the system was crawling - I said ENOUGH!
I just swapped out the dinky 512K for 2GB and my system is flying. So much for thinking I could get away with 'good enough' for a second home laptop, since Gary had the souped up games laptop. Now I'm pissed that I didn't do it six months ago when I started grumbling.
Of course, last year when I bought it, I didn't think I'd have 12 windows open in Opera along with 5 Word docs and Photoshop and.... Gary has always associated Robert Palmer's 'Hyperactive' with me. Now I have a home laptop that'll keep up. :-D
And maybe I'll keep YM up instead of reluctantly launching it knowing I would need to reboot eventually because it chewed up my memory.
*twirls*
PS. Now I'm chuckling at my expectations. I remember being excited about upgrading from an 8088 and 4200 baud modem to a screaming 286SX and 9600 baud (twenty years ago). Now I was pissing and moaning about a 1GB processor. Spoiled, much?
I just swapped out the dinky 512K for 2GB and my system is flying. So much for thinking I could get away with 'good enough' for a second home laptop, since Gary had the souped up games laptop. Now I'm pissed that I didn't do it six months ago when I started grumbling.
Of course, last year when I bought it, I didn't think I'd have 12 windows open in Opera along with 5 Word docs and Photoshop and.... Gary has always associated Robert Palmer's 'Hyperactive' with me. Now I have a home laptop that'll keep up. :-D
And maybe I'll keep YM up instead of reluctantly launching it knowing I would need to reboot eventually because it chewed up my memory.
*twirls*
PS. Now I'm chuckling at my expectations. I remember being excited about upgrading from an 8088 and 4200 baud modem to a screaming 286SX and 9600 baud (twenty years ago). Now I was pissing and moaning about a 1GB processor. Spoiled, much?