2 Jiggabytes

Earlier this weekend I ordered two gig of DDR2 ram for my PC. It cost a whole £30 including free postage, which I thought was nice. It’s been despatched and will no doubt arrive tomorrow when I’m not in. I also bet the delivery bloke leaves the calling card wedged in my door frame, rather than walking around the back to my letterbox.

I used the slightly frightening Google Checkout system to buy my RAM from CCL Online. It’s a bit like Amazon one-click shopping, but for anyone who uses the Google system. I’ll just pretend one of the largest information gobblers on the planet doesn’t have my bank details, and will instead see if more online companies adopt it.

I intend to take the RAM currently in my PC out and put it into my laptop, turning it into a portable dev machine. A task it is handling with a much better success rate than when it was my only machine. I uninstalled some random crap from it and things are much more responsive. The HDD is still awfully slow though. I took it out the other day (it’s under the same flap as the RAM slots) and the HDD is a 4800RPM drive designed to consume hardly any power, at a cost of severely slow data transfer rates. I don’t quite know if it does ATA133 either.

Tags: laptop, Programming