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Now that I’m scanning slides all the time, I was starting to feel that 128 megabytes, which seemed like so much when the old Pentium III was new, was not enough. I used the very nice Memory Advisor at Crucial to select the right memory for my motherboard, and the free shipping had my order, placed on Saturday, in my hands on Tuesday. Just over $60, with tax, for 128 meg of RAM compatible with a somewhat obsolete computer. I remember when hard disks were $10 per megabyte. The hardest part, naturally, was getting to the memory slots, buried behind power cables and disk drive cables. The Gimp is a whole lot more responsive with 256 meg.

If you have an older computer that you’re not ready to replace, you might look into memory upgrades. A relatively small amount of money, compared to the price of a new computer, can make a big different.