On Dec 19, 2008, at 8:14 PM, Mike Baker wrote:
> > Your best bet is to get a 256 MB RAM module and replace the 128 MB > RAM module with it, or if you have four RAM slots, add another 128 > MB RAM module. I just took the RAM in my G$ Sawtooth from 896 RAM > to 1.5 GB RAM. It has four slots, so the first two slots are 512 MB > RAM modules and the last two are 256 MB RAM modules. I could take > it up to 2 GB RAM but Mac OS 9 only recognizes up to 1.5 GB RAM. My > next two purchases for it will be 1 ATI Rage 9200 card and a second > hard drive. Hi Mike, As you see, many here are saying forget it with a G4. However, over here I note folks having luck running CS4 on their G4s - things aren't as fast as they would be on a G5 or Intel but pretty much as fast as CS3 or 4 were. http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6cfb2 Anyhow, presently I have 896MB, so if I yank a 128 stick and put in a 256, I seem to be shy of the 1GB total (984MB). Does that matter? Will the CS4 installer notice? I actually hardly need all the CS4 programs - mainly I want the Dreamweaver and the Flash. I can use the Photoshop 7 for awhile, it's just for image editing and I know it really well. I figure on getting a new machine when OS 10.6 comes out. Yeah, I could ditch this machine and just use my son's while he's at school, but I know because of deadlines I will want to be working some in the evening while he's doing homework. Not a plan really. Was thinking to maybe yank the 128 stick and add a 512, that would work, wouldn't it? Or even, Yank the 256 and the 128 and get two 512s. The RAM seems pretty cheap over at OWC, it's 31.99 for the 512 stick. The processor is a different story. I do hate to get into the guts of the machine. Today I put in the optical drive as Dan suggested, and spent a half hour trying to get a screw out of the old assembly. Someone at Apple drank too much coffee when they were screwing it in and overscrewed it. Finally I got on the phone with my Dad who suggested tapping with a hammer on the screwdriver to give the screwdriver more traction (threads stripped by now). I guess the tapping (pounding) loosened it. But now I guess I can't sell the old one on Ebay because who knows what the tapping/pounding did to it. Oh and then I had the optical drive in the assembly backwards. I am just not terribly good at the hardware end of things. Thanks all - Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11 Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5 mailto:earth...@ptd.net http://www.downtoearthweb.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
