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The memory of a flame

Posted 22 Mar, 2006 at 17:17 by matt in /Technical | Permanent link

Picked up a new stick of memory for Titania the Powerbook earlier this week, in hopes that maybe she'll run a little smoother. (My peripheral-storage-heavy lifestyle leads to some quirks now and again, and I'm hoping to ameliorate them at least slightly.) This leaves open the question of what I should be doing with the old memory stick that used to be in there.

The guy I was talking to at the computer store this past weekend suggested that eBay was a reasonable solution; I'm not convinced that's the case, since the sale prices the guy was quoting were a little inflated. From the looks of things, if I did sell the stick (PC2700 256MB 333MHz SODIMM, if anyone's interested) then UPS would probably make more on the deal than I would, and something about that bothers me.

I have this problem with computer equipment in general, really --- too many old bits of computers, with the conviction that there's a better solution than just throwing them away but no clear idea about what that solution is. 256MB of notebook memory is just the most recent bit for the pile.

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