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Best $25 I've spent in a while

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When to CompUSA last night and picked up an extra 4 gigabytes of memory.

There's something über-geeky about having 4 processors and 8 gigs of memory

I mean, seriously, I can load an entire DVD into memory!

Now to somehow score a terabyte's worth of solid state drives.

posted @ 3/21/2009 9:40:23 AM

Comments

alan says:

on 3/21/2009 10:48:19 AM

Now dump Windows, install Linux and it will be perfect.

mulligan says:

on 3/21/2009 2:55:41 PM

how does one do a screen capture like that?

Peter says:

on 3/21/2009 2:59:47 PM

I was cleaning out my file drawers and found a receipt for a pair of 16MB SIMM chips. Cost? $60 IIRC, this was for a Compaq DeskPro 4000, with 233MHz of MMX fury. Heh.

Eseell says:

on 3/21/2009 5:15:11 PM

mulligan, alt+printscreen captures only your active window to the clipboard. Ctrl+shift+esc opens the task manager.

The machine I'm using right now has 8 gigs of memory. The day after I installed Vista I woke up and the OS had used 99% of the physical memory for indexing files. That service got shut off quickly.

Robb Allen says:

on 3/21/2009 5:15:52 PM

Mulligan, I use Snag-It. But don't bother with version 9 because it sucks. 8 is awesome.

Sevesteen says:

on 3/21/2009 9:04:53 PM

I spent most of last week manually installing XP and applications on antique computers with 256-512mb...

DAve says:

on 3/23/2009 1:16:21 AM

Vista is ALL about RAM.
Remember that Vista allows you to use a thumbdrive as up to 4GB extra RAM too...
(technically not it's called Ready Boost but it's close enough)
Look it up and do it it's SO worthit-
*RAM is the new cowbell*

Brian says:

on 3/23/2009 11:44:56 AM

256 cores on a Windows 2008 r2 system. YMMV:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/01/05/what-does-256-cores-look-like/

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