Ah, memory

I've been progressing towards upgrading my OS for some time. Bought the software some months ago. By the way, that was cool! All the Apple staff have these little hand-held credit card scanners, so they could check me out right away and even email me the receipt!

Anyway, I put it all on hold over the holidays and just started thinking about it again about 2 weeks ago. I've been preparing - backing stuff up, reading the tech support articles, etc. I was just about ready to do it when I decided to buy more memory while I was at it (the system came with 512mb in each of 2 slots, and can only use up to 3 gb). So Saturday I dropped by the Apple store. They charge $300 for 2 gb! But the staff person was really nice and suggested I go to Crucial.com. They are great - you put in info about your system and they tell you what will work. So I ordered 3 gb for less than $100. And because I wanted to work on it next weekend, I asked for 2-day delivery (not very expensive on such a small package).

Today I had 2 emails from them. One said my order was all packed and ready to ship and gave me a tracking number. The next one said it was back-ordered and should ship in 7-10 business days. I guess they are shipping the 1 gb module and I'll get the 2 gb one later. Not that I am going to install one without the other...

Maybe I will get this done within 6 months of purchasing the upgrade...