Doing Happy Dance of Memory Upgrade

[danceswithgary]

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?

Comments

[danceswithgary]

All I did was buy 2 - 1GB simms and swap out the 512K simm. The cost was $60.00 for the memory compatible with my Compaq C300. The processor was fine, just needed more RAM.

I picked up this laptop last year at Circuit City for under $700.00. They've got some decent deals out there these days depending on what you're going for. I wouldn't play games on this one, but it's fine for word processing and the rest.

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

Oh thanks! Did you do the swapping or did you have to pay for the labor? *am a tech n00b*

[danceswithgary]

I did it myself, but I've worked with computers for years. It's not hard, you shut down, pop the battery out, open the back where the simms are and pull out what's there and replace with new. There are any number of online help sites for that type of stuff, too.

If you have a 512K processor - that's a different story.