I've just doubled my laptop's RAM to 4 GB.

It seems to be a lot snappier now.

Increased to 4GB? In 2020?

The max it can be increased to is 6.

I've just ordered an extra 4GB of RAM for my laptop.

Which'll give it 6 in total.

My new RAM has arrived. I have installed it.

My laptop does seem a bit nippier.

I've just taken a terrifying gamble.

My laptop has a maximum RAM capacity of 8 gigs.

Currently, it has a total RAM of 6 gigs, composed of one 2-gig card and one 4-gig card.

The 2-gig card is welded in place, which means I can only replace one of the cards.

Clearly, I can't get a 6-gig card, to bring the total up to 8-gigs, as they don't make 6-gig cards.

Therefore, I've just bought an 8-gig card which will combine with the 2-gig card to total 10 gigs which is 2 gigs more than my laptop can handle.

The Internet informs me that either the laptop will ignore the excess gigs and work like an 8-gig machine or it'll refuse to work until I remove the excess RAMmage.

I've taken an informed gamble on it doing the latter rather than the former.

If it pays off, I'll have 8 gigs of RAM, rather than the current 6.

It'll work, but you probably won't notice much difference.

I've got an old laptop with 4gb that the OS can only see 3gb cuz of the old and feeble Northbridge, or was it southbridge?

My 8 gigs of RAM have arrived.

I shall stick them in my laptop later.

I've now installed my extra RAM.

My laptop now has 8 gigs of RAM.

When I first bought it, it only had 2 gigs.

Pages do seem to be loading more assertively than before.

Well, jolly good for you.

It's like the start of Skynet.

I admire Wendi's boldness. I was always happy to take my desktop PC to bits, but I wouldn't meddle with my laptop in case I couldn't put it back together again.

I've used System Monitor and it's showing my laptop as having 9.6 gigs of RAM available to it, which is 1.6 more than is its official maximum capacity.

You should have got a 16GB one.