Buy your dad some memory for Father's Day

CRUCIAL UK thinks your dad might need some memory for Father's Day.

We're not quite sure if we're getting the drift of this bit of PR fluffery. Are dads, almost by definition, shut away in "brown studies" attempting to play with "gizmos" while simultaneously guggling secret bottles of whiskey and smoking their pipes?

No. Crucial doesn't say any of the above. It says it is the perfect time to get upgrades for laptops and decrease boot time.

It doesn't say dad should be in his den well away from the rest of his family in case he becomes a grumpy old bear, forgets his password, his wits and gambles not only your house and your inheritance online but also his moth eaten old shirts and y-fronts and finds himself out in the garden shed, if he's lucky. Or Carey Street, if he totally loses his wits.

Memory is very difficult at a certain age, so Crucial provides a non-Antiguan way to check if the Old Man and his PC albatross needs more memory, here. Or so it said. µ