A few months ago my wife and I purchased a new GM vehicle - our first minivan to be exact. I know, like all of you I said that I would never do such a thing. I was shocked by my actions, but it makes a lot of sense. Since we want to keep the vehicle for a while and we purchased it mostly for the luxury of having more room and a more comfortable vehicle we decided for the first time in our lives to actually spend money on accompaniments and accessories - leather, DVD system and stereo upgrade w/CD...
My workstation is a Dell 4600 that I got about this time last year. It originally came seriously underpowered with only 256 MB of PC3200 DDR RAM so I immediately bought an additional 512 and have been running 768MB for the last year pretty well. Over the last couple of months, though, I have noticed some serious lag, especially when running Outlook, SQL Server (MSDE), Visual Interdev, Visual Studio.NET, a couple of IE windows, Firefox with several tabs, and Macromedia Flex Builder (more on this later...