As a treat to myself for the new office move, I strategically ordered 2GB of RAM for my laptop so it would arrive on the first day in the new office. My Dell Latitude D610 has been a nice work horse for a while, but the paultry 512KB RAM just had a hard time compiling large VS.Net solutions.

I eagerly printed out the memory install instructions and patiently waited for the DHL driver to show up with my package. By using the DHL online tracking tool, I could see the package arrived in Portland on Friday and the driver had it by 9:25AM on Monday. Around 4PM, I couldn't wait anymore and I was being to wear a path in the carpet past the front desk; so I called the DHL line. They had a very good call system in place. I typed in my tracking code and the live person on the phone answered my question quickly. Basically, they knew exactly where they were delivering the package and no problems were reported. Drat!

Then, my (new) phone rang! It was the front desk calling to inform me that my package had arrived at the front desk. Figures, as soon as I call, the dude walks off the elevator to the office. I should have called a noon!

So, as my first feat of strength, I fired up VS.Net and pointed it to a DotNetNuke v4.3.4 solution that we have in the works. With just 512KB of RAM in my laptop, it took several minutes to compile the entire source code comprised of many thousands of lines. Now, with 2GB of RAM, I slammed through those 33 projects in about two minutes. A marked improvement indeed!

At just a measely 2GHz, my CPU is the dog now; the image of my task manager window bears that out. This is the processor churning through all those lines of DotNetNuke code in VS.Net; at least its not pegged at 100%! 

The holidays are coming soon, perhaps I'll see a new laptop soon? :)