I am slowly but surely getting fed up with only having 4GB RAM. I would like to be able to use my computer for menial tasks even when I have 20+ tabs open in Firefox, thank you very much. I have it set to save my tabs at shutdown but it's a PITA to get them all loaded again in reasonably short order. I have an extension that lets me scroll directly through my tabs (much like I could on Linux without an extension, but whatever) so all I have to do is go crazy on the wheel, but then I have to wait 5+ minutes for my computer to not be running at slideshow levels. For being a Celeron it handles multitasking very well, but it's getting pretty clear that my RAM situation is not at all optimal.
But hey, at least I had the foresight to get a laptop with two SODIMM sockets and 4GB of factory installed RAM, eh? Most of the others I saw going for the same or similar prices only had 2. Would've been a pain to have had to upgrade it (and void my warranty by not taking it to Toshiba) right off the bat. As it stands now, I can't do much about it except whine about it here (or just download some more </sarcasm>) and hope I get some money for Christmas. It should get me through the rest of the school year as it is now, but I don't think I'll be able to function happily on this for much longer than that.
I really should have expected this, but I'm still not unhappy with the purchase, because it was such a deal. If I had gotten a Chromebook for the same price (which I'll admit I looked at seriously there for about five minutes before saying "screw that" and looking for decent laptops in the realm of sanity in terms of pricing) I'd have been coping with only 2 GB RAM and quite possibly not being able to upgrade it at all. Which sucks.
Another thing I really need to look into is an SSD. Let's face it, I'll probably buy one of these before I buy more RAM, if finances allow. My page file will be on there, speeding things up a bit already, and then you factor in that most of my experience is waiting for stuff to load (seriously, The Sims 3 takes an eternity and a half to load up to the title menu and all I can hear while it's loading are the sounds of my HDD grinding dutifully away to fulfill my requests and that incessant noise they call music. The sad thing is, TS3 actually runs very well once it loads. I only play it because I enjoy torturing things and the Sims is one of the few things that will let me do that without serious in-game consequences). I'd have to get a decently sized one, though, because I've now filled almost half of my 500GB hard drive. What did that? Why, installing a few games. Umm. A few? Wait a second, I actually installed something like eighty of the things. All of my old C&C games, all of my Diablo games (which are even more broken in Windows 10 than in 8, oh what a fun-filled day it was when I was trying to get those running) and all of my other crap too. I have the space, might as well fill it. Christmas break is coming up anyway, gives me something to do.
