When I bought the new Dell E520 last year I was sitting on the fence about wether or not to get 2GB of Ram or 4GB. At the time it was a $300 upgrade, and I figured 2GB would be PLENTY! Boy, was I wrong.
Lately I've been doing a ton of video editing in Adobe Premiere Elements and 2GB is sorely inadequate on my machine. I find myself constantly running out of system memory, saving my work, and restarting. If I'm really unlucky I get all the way to encoding my project to DVD, only to find encoding failing 50% of the way through as my system chokes and dies. I figured out through trial and error that if I keep the number of media files in each project below 50 I don't run into many problems. Unfortunately, with home videos I end up "starting and stopping" my shooting a lot and each time I do my JVC Everio GZ-MG505 creates a new video file. Long story short I end up with a ton of files when shooting vacations etc.
So, what to do? Well, after a bit of searching online I found that crucial.com had by far the lowest prices I could find and YES they deliver to Canada. I picked up 2GB of DDR2-PC4200 for $66.98 US including shipping. The cheapest I could find locally was $55 for 1GB, plus the dreaded GST +PST. Until Canadian companies get their collective crap together, I'll be buying online as much as I can.
I'm eagerly awaiting the FEDEX man arriving today as apparently it's at their depot already, even though I only ordered yesterday. Hopefully this solves my problems.
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