Clark I was always under the impression, the more RAM the better.
As of tomorrow it will be my main machine, never mind my main laptop. It will be the highest spec machine in the house. Simon On 7 Dec 2008, at 22:48, Clark Martin wrote: > > Simon Royal wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have a PowerBook G4 867Mhz and it is running Leopard. It has 768MB >> of RAM and maxes out at 1GB of RAM. >> >> It runs Leopard very well - to which I am quite surprised at. Would >> upping the RAM to 1GB (via removing the 256MB and replacing it with a >> 512MB) make a noticeable difference in performance? >> >> RAM for these are quite expensive and I want to know if it is worth >> it. > > I'm not certain which model you have but it looks like a 512 Mb > stick is > $30 at www.macsales.com. IIRC you're in the UK so I don't know how > the > prices translate but is it that much more? > > It's not going to make a real noticable difference but I think over a > long period of time it's going to be worth it. Time saved will be 30 > seconds here, 15 seconds there but it does add up. I'd do it if it > were > my main laptop. > > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > > > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
