I’ve become sick of the sluggish behaviour of my laptop ever since installing Tiger, but didn’t really want to splurge on new hardware (turns out the MacBooks are toasty). So this week I finally caved in and spent money to keep my venerable old PowerBook Pismo running, with a new 512Mb stick of RAM. Actually, I should really have done this some time ago — PC133 SODIMMs have been hovering around their current prices for months.

After some minor open-heart surgery on the poor little black monster, it now has a respectable amount of memory! There’s life in that old G3 yet …