```json
{
    "title": "New Work Laptop",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2004/12/16/new-work-laptop/",
    "datePublished": "2004-12-16",
    "dateModified": "2004-12-16",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Ok, so it's not completely new; it's recycled from our former CTO. And it came with 256MB of RAM. How can a CTO even consider only 256MB of RAM sexy?…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# New Work Laptop

Ok, so it's not completely new; it's recycled from our former CTO. And it came with 256MB of RAM. How can a CTO even consider only 256MB of RAM sexy?

Anyway, I ordered 512MB to supplement whatever I find in here, and off I will go.

And if anyone is curious, it is a Dell Inspiron 8500. A step up from the Thinkpad 600X I had been using. And thankfully this is one of the only Dells with a pencil eraser pointer, not just the glide pad. I have NEVER liked glide pads.

Ok, I have spent the last 3 hours tweaking this thing...off to do something resembling work.