I never thought it would happen - getting my office set back up to what it once was. Even though my office remains a disaster zone due to my recent move, at least I am not having to work off of the notebook any longer. That alone, is fantastic as I am back in the zone with dual-monitors again. There is nothing like working off a “real” keyboard with full sized monitors.

But after I first booted the tower, I realized how much faster my notebook was. It is running with an Intel Dual-Core 2.20ghz with 2 gigs of RAM. My desktop on the other hand, was lacking with an AMD 64 3700+ with only a single gig of RAM. Clearly, I needed to remedy this. Off to the local big box store I go to pick-up a couple of sticks of RAM for my aging PC.

As luck would have it, I ended up with the wrong stuff once I got back home. Seriously, how did I miss this? I used to build these things? Apparently, I just overlooked what I picked up.

Finally after returning the old sticks, I ended up with the right stuff and sure enough, nothing better for a PC than a RAM upgrade. Currently rocking 2 gigs on my AMD box, which helps better match what I was enjoying on my notebook.

So what about you? Considering the times are getting a little leaner, are you rethinking that next big PC upgrade and instead, find yourself looking at upgrading what you already have? I did, thus far I could not be happier.