13 March 2025

Cheaper Better K

Just three years ago I bought two 8gb SODIMMs for Crispy IV.

They were $55 from Amazon, Timetec brand.  1,333 MHz, DDR3, PC3 10600, 204 pin SO-DIMM.  They are $19 today.

2 8gb sticks for DerpyPuter were $35.  Crucial brand.  1,600 MHz, DDR3, PC3 12800 204 pin SO-DIMM.

I like how things keep getting better and cheaper with most electronics.

It keeps my antique laptops running!

Posted by Angus McThag at 16:33
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  1. Paul Chappell13 March, 2025 17:15

    :-) As someone who put Mint Linux on an ancient Dell machine to give myself a proof of concept for a potential "post Win 10 EOL" I'm kind of thrilled about this... But with our hand being forced come October and budgets being an issue we're running older hardware longer. Seems to work quite well, certainly well enough for the use case here and I suspect for a LOT of my user base...

    Mind, I'm kind of cheating here with a large stockpile of hardware to pull parts from, but we DO raid eBay a lot for things... Stuff still works though, might not have official support, but...

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  2. slow joe crow14 March, 2025 12:45

    I'm seriously thinking of switching to Mint instead of Windows 11 myself. My ThinkPad from 2017 has 16 GB RAM and I have a spare SSD so I can run Linux while preserving Win10 and my test VM sees my scanner

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