02 August 2011

RAM's the word!

I was thinking of getting a new laptop for Christmas, this one has been slowly spinning to a halt for over a year now and had got to the stage where it couldn't do more than one thing at once or I'd get the popup saying "your computer is low on memory - you must shut everything down.." or words to that effect - and then it wouldn't let anything shut down at all, everything would be "not responding" - aaaarrrgghhhhh!!

On a bad day it used to take about a minute (a WHOLE minute) for anything I typed to come up, never mind anything more complicated..

But NOW...

whooopeee! Those wonderful men at PC World have given it a Tune Up and added 2GB of RAM - what a difference. Now my laptop works! Like it should! It's like getting a new one, how fantastic.. technology is once again in my good books.

2 comments:

  1. They didn't happen to reload all your programs from scratch as well did they? My current problem is that it I am getting to the stage that I can barely read my screen for random rubbish that won't go away. It is going to take a reload to fix it and I haven't nerved myself up for it yet!

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  2. No, I don't think so they did a PC TuneUp for £50 and added the RAM. I've got a portable hard drive I loaded my "Anne" file onto just in case but didn't need it. I had to do a total reboot of my computer about 18 months ago as it got a virus; only problem was iTunes didn't recognise my iPod after that, kept saying it was registered to a different computer! had to go through all sorts of shenanigans to get my library back.

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