[10:47:27] <geckosenator> do they make usb ram?
[10:47:37] <geckosenator> I guess even 480mbits is too slow
[10:48:01] <J4k3> pci-e 16x would be an acceptable add-on card speed for memory
[10:48:11] <geckosenator> I have a laptop
[10:48:20] <geckosenator> it has to be either pcmcia or usb
[10:48:31] <J4k3> why can't you just buy the proper ram for it and snap it in there?
[10:48:52] <geckosenator> maybe I can
[10:48:56] <J4k3> if the laptop is too old/crusty to support a decent quantity of ram, you need a newer laptop
[10:48:57] <geckosenator> but then it is not easy to remove
[10:49:05] <geckosenator> the laptop has 512 megs
[10:49:08] <J4k3> you don't want to take it back out
[10:49:11] <geckosenator> but if I put more ram in, it will use more power
[10:49:16] <J4k3> usually theres an access door on the bottom
[10:49:23] <J4k3> or you have to take the keyboard out
[10:49:25] <geckosenator> I'm running on solar power
[10:49:29] <J4k3> which can take anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 hours
[10:49:35] <J4k3> depending on skill and the laptop model.
[10:49:45] <geckosenator> hmm
[10:49:52] <J4k3> add a bicycle
[10:49:55] <J4k3> pedal harder
[10:50:02] <geckosenator> I would rather just have a pcmcia card that I stick in and it gives me like 4 gigs more ram
[10:50:15] <J4k3> way too slow to be useful
[10:50:15] <geckosenator> heh
[10:50:22] <geckosenator> how slow is it?
[10:50:27] <geckosenator> I just need it to record movies
[10:50:39] <geckosenator> since my hard drive is 28 megs per second is actually too slow
[10:50:59] <geckosenator> well maybe it isn't if I drop the resolution, I don' thave enough cpu to compress on the fly though
[10:51:58] <Fear_cult> quadcore fool
[10:52:08] <Fear_cult> or atleast phenom
[10:52:12] <geckosenator> if I had a quadcore I would probably have enough ram
[10:52:25] <geckosenator> maybe I will just take short clips of 10 seconds or so then splice them together
[10:52:31] <Gigs> they used to do that
[10:52:38] <Gigs> you could get an ISA card with ram
[10:52:41] <Fear_cult> noo
[10:52:44] <Gigs> it was real real slow
[10:52:48] <Fear_cult> geckosenator, are you out of slots?
[10:52:57] <geckosenator> I have 2 pcmcia slots
[10:53:08] <geckosenator> but one is needed so that I can get usb ports
[10:53:17] <geckosenator> so I have a free one for ram
[10:53:34] <Fear_cult> i meant ram slots not pcmcia
[10:52:38] <Gigs> you could get an ISA card with ram
[10:52:41] <Fear_cult> noo
[10:52:44] <Gigs> it was real real slow
[10:52:48] <Fear_cult> geckosenator, are you out of slots?
[10:52:57] <geckosenator> I have 2 pcmcia slots
[10:53:08] <geckosenator> but one is needed so that I can get usb ports
[10:53:17] <geckosenator> so I have a free one for ram
[10:53:34] <Fear_cult> i meant ram slots not pcmcia
[10:57:10] <J4k3> well
[10:57:31] <J4k3> ISA wasn't really that slow compared to the CPU on an 8088/8086/286 level machine
[10:57:39] <J4k3> it wasn't til the 286/12 did anyone really care.
[10:58:04] <geckosenator> I just need it to be faster than the harddrive
[10:58:21] <geckosenator> the harddrive is like 20 megs/second
[10:58:44] <geckosenator> maybe I can have a raid array of like 3 drives on external usb
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