Sorry Reggie...not that kind of Ram...any bigger and you'd need a CDL:gar-Bi
Not exclusively woodworking but since most of us do a fair amount of virtual woodworking on a computer I'm comfortable putting this here.
Laptop RAM has never been cheaper. If you haven't looked at prices lately they've dropped below $20 for a 2GB stick of DDR2 and ~$10 for a 1GB stick. I just installed a 2GB stick (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148087) into my Asus EEE 1000HE XP netbook and put the stock 1 GB stick out of the netbook into my wife's Vista laptop along with an additional matching 1GB stick (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231069). I took the 256MB stick out of my work XP laptop and installed one of the 512mb sticks from my wife's laptop. Now the 3 computers have doubled memory and work much faster and are much more reliable...especially wife's Vista OS laptop (Dell should be spanked for selling a Vista machine with 1GB of memory and slow processors!) On my 4yr old Dell XP-Pro work laptop I can have multiple IE windows open, Outlook, Word, and VLC Mediaplayer in the background all at the same time and no constant wait for the Virtual Memory on the hard drive to load.
Anyway...if you've never considered doing this it's easy and safe to do with a little bit of prep. It took longer to open the plastic package than to do the whole upgrade. Here's an good youtube how-to video from How Stuff Works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkWe0gHA10I&feature=related
www.newegg.com had the best deal for what I needed. I have had a great experience with them recently but there are plenty of other reliable sources. Amazon was pennies apart in price.
www.crucial.com has a good configurator which will help match the type of RAM you need. Search for coupon codes for free shipping and specials on www.techbargains.com.
Mark
(a sliderule guy in a Matlab world)
Not exclusively woodworking but since most of us do a fair amount of virtual woodworking on a computer I'm comfortable putting this here.
Laptop RAM has never been cheaper. If you haven't looked at prices lately they've dropped below $20 for a 2GB stick of DDR2 and ~$10 for a 1GB stick. I just installed a 2GB stick (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148087) into my Asus EEE 1000HE XP netbook and put the stock 1 GB stick out of the netbook into my wife's Vista laptop along with an additional matching 1GB stick (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231069). I took the 256MB stick out of my work XP laptop and installed one of the 512mb sticks from my wife's laptop. Now the 3 computers have doubled memory and work much faster and are much more reliable...especially wife's Vista OS laptop (Dell should be spanked for selling a Vista machine with 1GB of memory and slow processors!) On my 4yr old Dell XP-Pro work laptop I can have multiple IE windows open, Outlook, Word, and VLC Mediaplayer in the background all at the same time and no constant wait for the Virtual Memory on the hard drive to load.
Anyway...if you've never considered doing this it's easy and safe to do with a little bit of prep. It took longer to open the plastic package than to do the whole upgrade. Here's an good youtube how-to video from How Stuff Works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkWe0gHA10I&feature=related
www.newegg.com had the best deal for what I needed. I have had a great experience with them recently but there are plenty of other reliable sources. Amazon was pennies apart in price.
www.crucial.com has a good configurator which will help match the type of RAM you need. Search for coupon codes for free shipping and specials on www.techbargains.com.
Mark
(a sliderule guy in a Matlab world)