Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Ginkgo Biloba for the Lappy

My brother is all about the supplements, and he's got Nate using them now to! Both of them have noticed an increase in short and long term memory capacity after taking ginkgo biloba. Fuckin' seriously.

I've been monitoring RAM usage on the new lappy sense day one. It's pushing balls to the walls (86%) with only a single ie browser open. Today I scored some dope shiz, ginkgo biloba styles: a fuckin money DDR2 200-PIN SODIMM, PC2-5300/667 MHz, 2 GB (2 x 1 GB) Memory Module Upgrade Kit.

EDIT: WHAT THE HELL?
Order Date: 4/17/2007
Order Status: In Production

Shipping Method: Next Business Day
Est. Ship Date: 5/2/2007
Est. Delivery Date: 5/3/2007

3 comments:

milkman said...

Supplements are a scam, and the placebo effect shouldn't be underestimated.

But, about Vista and memory: Vista will attempt to use as much pagefile and physical memory as it can, and so your overall memory utilization numbers aren't all that helpful in determining whether you need to pick up more.

Vista will try to use as much pagefile as possible so that when you go to hibernate the machine, most of memory is already written to disk. And it will try to use as much physical memory as possible so that as applications come into context, the OS won't need to hit the pagefile ot retrieve memory.

In fact, unused memory is used by the SuperFetch feature to cache commonly used applications before they're even launched. That's one of the reasons Vista gets a lot snappier after two or three days of runtime--it's figured out which apps you launch regularly and has loaded them into physical memory, ready to use.

All of that said, the footprint of most modern apps is big enough that you'll still see a perf boost when you switch to more memory.

Enjoy the ... wait!

Raven said...

crazy, thats mad skills.

milkman said...

Yeah. But I owned it last week in three-pointers and free-throws.

This is MY HOUSE! Bring it!