The hourglass is one of the most controlling, patronizing elements of computing. It says “I know you have work to do, but I’m more important right now. I don’t care if the CPU usage is at 5% and memory is at 10% usage, I can’t do it captain – I. JUST. DON’T. HAVE. THE POWER.”.

Do yourself a favour – and max out your RAM. Lack of it is the most crippling thing to productivity.

I recently got rid of my home laptop which had 512MB of RAM. It was becoming a chore using it, because of the lag. I couldn’t wait to get back to the office the next day to use my desktop with 2GB of RAM. Even more recently, I got into Visual Studio 2008 and was running it in a Virtual PC (for reasons I won’t get into). This really slowed down the system despite the 2 jigowatts of power. Fast forward to a new home PC in place of my laptop – 4GB of RAM, and how the tables have turned. My work PC (that I spend 8-9 hours a day on) is a miserable atrocity  in comparison.

Long story short, until I get more RAM on my work PC I am removing the Virtual PC that I’ve been running, and my consider doing all of my ASP.NET programming in notepad.

Go buy RAM.

Shendy.

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