What a Little RAM Can Do…
A while back I was helping Lindsay figure out how much some more RAM was going to cost for her computer (that I ended up rebuilding, yet again) and I stumbled onto the price for some new RAM on my laptop. I’ve been putting off buying any RAM for my PowerBook just out of fear of the price.
Turns out, it was only like sixty bucks to add 512 megs! So as soon as I could I put in an order at Crucial for a little DIMM. The results have been amazing. My laptop feels like a completely new computer. Besides unimportant things that this has done for my laptop experience (like I can now run WoW on my laptop), it has revitalized my use of the laptop almost one hundred fold. It surprises me how much that nagging slowness was bothering me.
As such, I’ve been integrating my laptop back into my daily routine with fantastic results. An auxillary audio cable turns my laptop into the jukebox at work. The additional RAM avoids chunky audio over the network at parties. Synergy has brought keyboard and mouse sharing to my workspace environments with a level of simplicity I didn’t know was possible.
The RAM brought so much life back into my laptop, I’m in love all over again. It’s like a brand new laptop. 
May 22nd, 2006 at 6:56 am
Crucial always comes thru in a pinch. I was well in need of a RAM purchase myself. Thanks for the Synergy recommendation. I was actually considering a KVM switch at home for the Mac/PC setup.