That was quick:
- Order placed with Crucial yesterday afternoon around 1.30pm for 2 sticks of 2GB RAM.
- UPS guy called this morning at 11.30am with RAM.
- Dell D630 laptop upgraded to 4GB RAM with the help of this tutorial. Only took about 20 minutes, although unscrewing and removing the keyboard was a bit nerve wrecking.
- Rebooted and found that Linux only found 3.5GB of the RAM but fixing that is simple:
# apt-get install linux-headers-server linux-image-server linux-server
- Reboot and I see 4GB RAM. Should make running Firefox and Bibble Pro 5 a lot less painful. Both memory hogs.
4GB of DDR2 RAM only cost me about 50 Euro. I’m sure I have a receipt for 8MB of SDRAM I bought years ago. Cost me 100 quid then. So, 4GB of RAM back then would have cost a small fortune.
Edit: the server kernel has terrible video performance (unsurprisingly), I’ve gone back to the desktop kernel and will recompile it when that 500MB of RAM becomes a real necessity (or I move to a 64 bit version of Ubuntu).
8 Comments
Viper007Bond (28 comments.) on August 20, 2009 at 10:24 pm.
51200 quid to be precise. LOL
webmaestro (1 comments.) on August 21, 2009 at 12:34 am.
Wanted… Girl with Mac… Send picture of Mac.
dahamsta (28 comments.) on August 21, 2009 at 12:54 am.
Crucial are shit hot, I wouldn’t use anyone else for RAM.
Demetris (2 comments.) on August 21, 2009 at 5:46 pm.
The 64-bit version eats more memory. (Both the OS and the apps.)
I installed it once on a machine with 1GB of RAM and quickly went back to 32-bit because of this. But I think that with 4GB RAM you’ll be fine.
Cheers
Shane (2 comments.) on August 21, 2009 at 6:04 pm.
I’ve ordered a couple of times from Crucial before. I was VERY impressed with how quickly the RAM arrived each time. They are excellent!
John on August 22, 2009 at 12:27 pm.
I didnt had the best of experience with them…I ordered RAM last month and it took bloody 5 days for them to figure out my address…
John on August 23, 2009 at 8:54 am.
I’m amazed at how u open the keyboard!!!.. My Dell D610 backspace button came out and it took me 3 hours to put it but i broke the locks!!! so now replaced it with new one!!!
blogtek (1 comments.) on September 26, 2009 at 9:07 pm.
I’ve also heard of 32-bit XP reporting 3.25 G after a 4G ram upgrade.