19 April, 2007
The eMac. Now with 40% less cursing!
I had to leave Luna at the Subaru dealership early this morning (I was on the road at the ridiculous hour of 6:30 a.m.!) so I could get the CD player replaced. About a month ago it was happily playing my Dharma Bums iMix, when suddenly it skipped wildly. I ejected the CD and then re-inserted it. It spun for several seconds, the ejected it. Same with the next CD and the next. Anyway, got that taken care of and it was under warranty so I didn't have to pay for it, so Yay!
I left work early (since I got there 1:15 early) and picked up Luna, then headed to Pet Club for Feline Essentials (i.e. litter and Petromalt). I decided to stop at CompUSA, just to see what price they had on a 512mb memory stick for Fiona (the eMac, which came with a shamefully skimpy 256mb. Shame, Apple! Shame!). I was seeing them online for anywhere between $50-100 (the average being in the $50-70 range) and the last time I checked at the CompUSA on Market St., it was in the $90 range. I must have had good RAM Karma because they had some for $69. It was about what I'd have ended up paying online after shipping, anyway, so I got some.
It only took me two tries to install the memory and have Fiona successfully read it, which made me happy. And now I can play iTunes and have Firefox open and Mail and upload photos in 1001 and not have any combination of those leave me sitting, waiting and cursing for several minutes. Yay!
(Oh yeah, Simon reminded me that I must mention how absolutely HELPFUL he was, sitting off to the side while I installed the memory. He didn't stick his paw in the computer or try to shove his mousie toy in it or anything! Good Kitty! But no, you don't get more goat cheese, sorry.)
Labels: domesticity, upgrading
~~ victoria on 8:36 PM ~~ 2 comments
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i'd have given you some for nothing if i'd known you'd needed it, although i think i just have 256. that would have doubled you though. 256 total is a bit anemic.
--Patrick of Alameda
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Anonymous, at
11:32 PM
256 is shamefully skimpy! Thanks for the offer: I should have squawked louder before, eh? :-)
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victoria, at
10:15 PM