dmcadam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said it like this: > But the screen on my HD shows I have 1.5G left, whatever this means. It means that OS X have approximately 1.5 GB of theoretical VM storage left on your drive. You're safe for now. However, unless your drive is full of media files, so that you can move these to CDs or DVDs at any point, I think you should in time consider a bigger hard drive. No matter what you do, like for example working with Photoshop that can yield temp scratch files of more than a few gigs, you should make sure that you generally keep 500 MB or so free on your drive so that OS X can park processes on disk (trough VM) that you're not using. VM is central to the operation of OS X and is much more effective than in OS 9. It can't replace real RAM though if you want to keep speed.
>You said I need 384MB of memory so do I need to buy another 192MB of DIMMs? You can't buy 192 I'm sure, but go for a 256, 2 x 256 or 2 x 512 if you can afford it. 512s are usually more expensive unfortunately. Most likely you have 128 MB and 64 MB in there now, so you probably have two slots unless you have some RAM on the motherboard. If you do have 2 slots, replace the 64 MB with a 256 MB and you'll have a total of 384 MB. If you can afford it I'd go for 2 x 256 minimum, but maybe you need to buy other stuff also, so 384 MB can be a good compromise depending what you do with your machine. If you only have 1 slot, like I think in some iBooks or whatever, I'd go for a 512. If you don't know the memory architecture on your machine I'd search for "Apple Memory Guide" at apples web site. Don't believe their limitations mentioned in there for your machine though, most G3 and later machines can address at least 512 MB with newer chips. As for web sites, I find Other World Computing, Trans'Intl, Rocky Mountain Ram and Memory X to seemingly be some of the more reasonable and hopefully qualityminded sites (I haven't bought from them yet, doing a purchase just now). Or just find the cheapest at Ramseeker.com that claim OS X compatibility (I'd ask before I'd buy). ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
