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. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
