Yay, RAM!

So I finally got some more RAM, which is fun. Cost me $35 shipped from newegg, 2GB DDR2 667MHz SODIMM. I must say it has spiced up vista quite a bunch, it's actually really nice and fast to use now that it isn't swapping like something that swaps a lot.

Here's some pictures!

Ok, so when I opened the way to big newegg box, and dug through the unnecessary sea of peanuts, I found this:



I made sure to note this specifically, very handy considering the laptop I'm putting this in *is* running vista:



Here's a closer look at the front of the stick:



A removal of the battery and power cords, and four screws later, I'm pulling off the palmwrest:



And lo, it's off! My my, it even looks like there might be an open slot in there...



It is! Yay!



Press down lightly... and.... *click*



Now lets reattach the battery and all the cables, and boot vistuh!

[no picture due to the boringness of it's bootup sequence]

Ok, ~20 seconds later, I'm logged in and noticing it's much faster. Lets recalculate the WEI, shall we?

http://i28.tinypic.com/wia4k3.jpg

It's a whole .5 higher than it was! Craaaazy!

Here's some more detail:

http://i25.tinypic.com/1zppd9s.jpg

Yeah, I had to make those two external links. Too wide for the blog format apparently.