Memories can be beautiful
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lprovenI've been doing some memory-swapping of late.
Thanks to the wonders of eBay, I have acquired a 1GB SO-DIMM for my laptop, giving it a remarkable 1¼GB of total RAM. That's more than the next 2 best-endowed machines put together! It's noticeably quicker than it was with ½G & I have enough RAM to run VMware and an Ubuntu session alongside everything else. It strikes me as a silly amount of RAM to have - it's even more than![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_major's Beast with its 1GB - but it was only £50.
I've sold the ¼G DIMM I took out to a client, whose laptop now has ½G - the max it will take - and it's quite a bit quicker, too.
I also acquired a couple of PC133 SO-DIMMs a little while ago, a 64M and a 128MB. I've downgraded my old Thinkpad from its illegal and problematic 320MB to its legal max of 192MB and sold its ¼G DIMM tochorleycakes for her laptop, which leaves me with the 64. Mine's now running Ubuntu (natch) with the ROX Desktop on. Any nostalgic Acorn Archimedes or RISC-PC or whatever users should check this out. It's a little rough around the edges still but it's very good.
Anybody want a 64MB laptop memory module? Should fit almost anything in the Pentium II-Pentium III era, laptops from a few hundred MHz up to a GHz or so. This includes Apple Powerbooks. Make me an offer. It's currently going for a quid on eBay.
Thanks to the wonders of eBay, I have acquired a 1GB SO-DIMM for my laptop, giving it a remarkable 1¼GB of total RAM. That's more than the next 2 best-endowed machines put together! It's noticeably quicker than it was with ½G & I have enough RAM to run VMware and an Ubuntu session alongside everything else. It strikes me as a silly amount of RAM to have - it's even more than
the_major's Beast with its 1GB - but it was only £50.I've sold the ¼G DIMM I took out to a client, whose laptop now has ½G - the max it will take - and it's quite a bit quicker, too.
I also acquired a couple of PC133 SO-DIMMs a little while ago, a 64M and a 128MB. I've downgraded my old Thinkpad from its illegal and problematic 320MB to its legal max of 192MB and sold its ¼G DIMM to
chorleycakes for her laptop, which leaves me with the 64. Mine's now running Ubuntu (natch) with the ROX Desktop on. Any nostalgic Acorn Archimedes or RISC-PC or whatever users should check this out. It's a little rough around the edges still but it's very good.Anybody want a 64MB laptop memory module? Should fit almost anything in the Pentium II-Pentium III era, laptops from a few hundred MHz up to a GHz or so. This includes Apple Powerbooks. Make me an offer. It's currently going for a quid on eBay.
