Yesterday I had part of the afternoon off and was running some errands. One of the stops was Fry’s Electronics in North Phoenix. They’ve started having big bins of the stuff they’re pushing out in the corridor like laptop fan trays for $10 or 1G USB drives, etc. I saw they had 4G SD cards for $14.99, and thought I’d buy one just to slap into this laptop for ‘whatever’. Truly an impulse buy … and what better place to do so than a Geek heaven?? :)
Sometime last night, I put the card in and it asked the normal “hey, do you want to use some of this to speed up Vista?” Oh sure, give it a shot, nothing so far has been significant and I’ve looked at the specs for how that diminishes as you go.
Things were running along in my normal “read a bunch-o-blogs” mode when I noticed that the close ‘X’ on one of the windows glowed instead of hilighted. Hmmm. I was running FF full-screen so didn’t notice much else until I got out of FF and ran something that had a smaller footprint and whoa… I’ve got ‘glass’!
I’ve also got the Aero tab roller… maybe I should see what else is working :)
I haven’t tried any heavy development on it since… that’s coming up today, so the jury’s out on if I gained ‘glass’ at the expense of something else. Pretty is nice, but I’ll trade it for performance if I have to.
But for now, that $14.99 is lookin’ good!
posted @ Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:55 AM