50% More Power

in the early evening (3/27/2005) · Filed under Ramblings, Mac, Geekery

In addition to other items and chores, I decided to upgrade the PowerBook some this weekend. The overhaul consisted of bringing up the Ram by 50% to 768mb, as well as the installation of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. The increase in memory certainly makes the TiBook a bit snappier, as one might expect. I tend to have a lot of apps running in the background to help automate things or remind me of other things.

I also spent some time working on Gmail, learning some tips off the Gmail wiki (like using Gmail for Notes and for web clippings). Since I check email from work and elsewhere from time to time, pushing more into Gmail helps make me a little more efficient. I’ve gotten into the habit of using it for reminders lately.

Inbetween all that, I managed to get some data cleaned up on the laptop (you’d think 60 gigs worth of drive would last longer) - after installing the SW: Knights of the Old Republic onto the external drive, I moved the other games to the drive as well, and freed up about 4 gigs on the laptop. Later this week, I plan to reorganize my data, and delete some old, rarely used applications.

2 Comments

  1. Katt said,

    March 29, 2005 @ 6:25 pm

    Must…have…more..power! Scotty!

  2. Brian said,

    March 29, 2005 @ 11:05 pm

    Well, the TiBook hasn’t quite completed its Five Year Mission to seek out new life, new civilizations and new, uh, web sites … but it seemed like a good time to dry dock it for an upgrade.

    Now would be a good time, Mr. Scott… ;)

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