Beaker

Finally, more memory for Beaker

Posted by Greg Leedberg on August 6, 2010 at 8:17 pm

I bought my laptop, Beaker, in 2008, and haven’t done upgrades to him at all in that time.  So, finally, I increased the amount of memory.  Beaker came with two 1GB modules, so I replaced one of them with a 2GB Crucial module, bringing the total to 3GB.  Interestingly, this means that Beaker has the [...]

New addition: Beaker

Posted by Greg Leedberg on December 5, 2008 at 9:56 pm

New laptop! My existing laptop, Camilla, is going on five years old soon, and is starting to show her age, so it was time for her to be replaced. The new laptop — named Beaker — is a Dell Inspiron 1420. As a 14-inch laptop, it’s slightly smaller and lighter than Camilla, but also significantly [...]