Simon Royal wrote:
> Clark
> 
> I was always under the impression, the more RAM the better.

Yeah, pretty much.  There might be some rare cases where it isn't but 
those are probably for defunct OSes.

> 
> 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.



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Clark Martin
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