Tuesday, May 23, 2006

New Toys

Nothing too exciting, but I have been getting a little miffed recently by my PC's performance... OK it's running a Linux PC in a VMWare session using 512MB RAM and Photoshop CS2 and Dreamweaver 8, and that's not including the Firewall, AV software, Outlook, Firefox, Messenger, PGP etc etc etc... swapping from one application to the next is taking a VERY long time... so I have decided that as I can't afford to buy a new PC at the moment, I will upgrade the memory... So today I have ordered 2 x 1GB DDR3200's from crucial.co.uk. Unfortunately, I only have two memory slots and they both have 512MB's in at the moment, so if anyone knows a good home for some DDR2700???

The other new toy is a replacement for the Intuos 2 graphics tablet, I am now the proud owner of a Graphire 4 XL A5 tablet. The working area is double my previous one, so that should make it a bit easier to do what I need to do in Photoshop. The Intuos tablet looks like it will be traded for a Fuji Finepix 3 Megapixel camera tomorrow - should do the job for Amy?

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