Now’s the Time — Upgrade that RAM

August 17th, 2009 by steve

I’ve been running a Dell laptop with 1GB of RAM since Vista first arrived. The extra money for the extra GB (this laptop maxes out at 2GB) was more than this Scotsman could take.

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But RAM prices have dropped lots. I ran the scanner at www.crucial.com and picked up two 1GB chips online for a couple pennies under $24 — delivered. Man — if I knew how it would help performance, I may have done it when RAM was $75 for 2GB.

Outlook, QuickVerse, even FireFox load more quickly.

It’s time. Upgrade your RAM.

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3 Responses to “Now’s the Time — Upgrade that RAM”

  1. alacy Says:

    What strikes me as ironic is the fact that due to a SD memory card, my phone has twice the memory of my PC, in fact my new digital pen has twice the memory of my PC.

  2. steve Says:

    Yes…. PC memory prices are strange ducks compared to USB, SD, and others.

  3. alacy Says:

    Well flash memory has the advantage that the contents remain even if the power is removed. It has the disadvantage that it is a lot slower than powered RAM.

    Of course another thing that amazes me, is that the video card that is running the monitor I am in front of has a much better CPU and 4 times the memory of my first computer. In fact it has more CPU power and memory than the Mainframe at the first company I worked for.

    But all video card does is process “information” and convert it to images for me to see.