The Magic Pantry

My parent’s bought themselves a PC. Not terribly successfully. Their brand new HP Pavilion a6130a desktop, with Visa Home pre-installed, came with the default amount of RAM: 512MB. To an old-timer like me, that’s a massive amount of memory, as I got by quite well with 512KB on the old Amiga, thankyou very much, so three orders of magnitude should suffice. But, as the tech-savvy among you know, Windows Vista will hardly boot with 512MB of memory, and will start swapping the moment you attempt to open a web browser. My Commodore 64 was more responsive than the brand new PC my folks bought themselves. So, I thought I’d upgrade their machine to 2GB. And, you know what? That cost less money than what we spent on a dinner of fish and bloody chips. Considerably less. To think upgrading my old Amiga to 1MB with a 512KB memory expansion cost me five hundred bloody bucks. Sheesh!