When I got to England, I bought a new laptop. I bought a Toshiba because I like the brand. The keyboards are nice.
However, I paid a premium for the brand and to partly offset this, I only got 256 MB of RAM. I thought this would be okay. It wasn’t. You can no longer survive on 256 MB. It took me about 40 seconds to rotate a photo.
So I bit the bullet and bought 1 GB of RAM from eBay. I love eBay. My Strategy lecturer says that eBay’s strategy is marketing against non-consumption.
I installed the RAM today and the laptop runs like a dream.
I hate installing laptop RAM. At least in my laptop, it’s necessary to “snap” in the SO-DIMM using a level of force which makes me rather nervous.
It’s the same in my laptop!
Installing RAM is a very simple process but it took me an hour. I did it twice and the computer wouldn’t boot up. It was rather frightening because I hate dealing with defective eBay products.
As it turns out, all I had to do was shove the RAM in really, really hard.
When I got my laptop and they asked me whether I wanted any add-ons, the only thing I said was “I want 2GB of RAM.”
I can’t stand slow computers anymore.
Like, excuse me! I am still using a 128MB Ram, Pentium 2, Window 98 desktop computer- the same computer that I have been using for 7 years! I just upgraded the dial-up internet connection to broadband last week!