30Nov04 Installing SP2 at home
It is almost midnight and just now finished installing SP2 on the other laptop. I didn’t mind the installation time at work but we are talking about a dual-processor machine with 1GB of RAM. Not quite the same experience when you are dealing with a 1 GHz processor with 256Mb of memory
Why did I take this long to upgrade? Mostly because I wanted to make sure things were going along smoothly with this service pack. I installed it at work a few weeks back and have not had any problems with it. The development applications that I run there have not been affected in any sort of way so I thought we are safe to bring the Fujitsu laptop up to par.
I think a RAM upgrade would be quite appropriate for that machine, specially since Sarah constantly multi-tasks with more than one Office application, so I am sure she would enjoy the extra little bump in performance 512 Mb of RAM would give her.
update: wireless is up and running without any further modifications but I need to re-patch the OS so non-MS themes are accepted. Tomorrow’s testing includes VPN functionality, keep you fingers crossed. Good night.
1Dec04
10:54am
lol…funny thing. I installed SP2 on my Home Desktop just last night too. That’s a 1.4 GHz but I have upgraded the memory to 630MB RAM…and yes, that probably made a huge difference.