{"id":321,"date":"2004-12-16T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=321"},"modified":"2010-03-28T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T22:22:35","slug":"yay-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/16\/yay-memory","title":{"rendered":"Yay! Memory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to wander into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbyte.com.au\/\">NextByte<\/a> to see about getting some more ram for my nice new iBook today. I&#8217;ve been tossing up whether to go for an extra 512MB (for 768MB total) or an extra GB (for 1280MB total) &#8212; I really wanted as much as possible, since OS X is a memory hog and I want to run virtual hosts on it too; but I couldn&#8217;t justify paying three times as much for twice as much memory. In particular, when I rang a few weeks ago, I was quoted something like $600 for memory, and $500 for a copy of VirtualPC with a copy of Windows XP Pro I didn&#8217;t want. Yick.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, I finally got fed up with 256MB, and decided it was time to, well, decide. So as I wandered past the shelves, I noticed the pretty boxes Microsoft has for VirtualPC, and in particular noticed they had Windows 2000 and Windows XP Home variants. They also had a &#8220;standalone&#8221; variant, that doesn&#8217;t include a Windows license! Woot! Also woot-worthy is that the price of a GB had tumbled to only around twice the cost of 512MB. So I said &#8220;yay, gimme, gimme&#8221;, and got the RAM installed there and then, and got told that the (shrinkwrapped) VirtualPC box was display only (ie, completely empty) and they&#8217;d order it in. So, soon I shall have some active Debian and Ubuntu development installs again. Sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to wander into NextByte to see about getting some more ram for my nice new iBook today. I&#8217;ve been tossing up whether to go for an extra 512MB (for 768MB total) or an extra GB (for 1280MB total) &#8212; I really wanted as much as possible, since OS X is a memory hog and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}