Tonight i are feeling rather chuffed with myself,

After spending many months shouting at my laptop to get 'it's effing finger out' i took the plunge and ordered more memory, Was 256mb now 1.2Gb.

Initially a little daunted, But nothing to it, And the difference is like night & day. And i still have the option of whacking in another Gb.

Nothing special to all you I.T. bods, But I'm well chuffed with myself (It's akin to doing you first set of brake pads, And not ending up embedded in a wall)

None but the brave ................

Tonight i are feeling rather chuffed with myself,

After spending many months shouting at my laptop to get 'it's effing finger out' i took the plunge and ordered more memory, Was 256mb now 1.2Gb.

Initially a little daunted, But nothing to it, And the difference is like night & day. And i still have the option of whacking in another Gb.

Nothing special to all you I.T. bods, But I'm well chuffed with myself (It's akin to doing you first set of brake pads, And not ending up embedded in a wall)

Congrats:thumbup:, I know how you feel. It was like that for me on my ‘first time’, I upgraded the graphix card in my desktop and nearly wee’d myself with excitement when it worked (plug and play takes all the credit really)

Congrat's

Next step building your own PC from a box of bits. :-)

RAM is mint.

I remember my first "proper" upgrade. the first being adding 32MB more RAM to a P166 but that didn't really light my fire

What did was a Graphics card. the GeForce 3. Slotted it in and was experiencing graphical heaven until the motherboard went pop luckily it didnt take the Athlon 1.4 with it.

Replaced it with a quality Gigabyte board and it worked faultlessly for years

Replaced card with Radeon 9700pro 18 months later. Both cards still work today.

Need to pimp my laptop though. prob will wait a few months first.

You'll have PCWorld in a panic. Another punter who has discovered that this hardware malarky is piece of cake.

The software is another story though.

Building your own make a lot of sense. Costs a little more but you can be sure that if anything breaks you can replace the part not the whole machine.

after reinstalling on my old laptop its now faster with alot of hidden crap removed. my new laptop even through is fast is uch much quieter and cooler on the lap.