On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:25 AM, mac-in_true_love wrote:
I have ordered 512 Mb of memory for G4 ibook, assuming that 640 is the maximum, which I found running an analysis program linked to from this forum when memory was addressed.
All G4 iBooks can take a 1Gb SO-DIMM. I would go with that rather than the 512Mb.
I hope this makes it faster with browsing and running applications both OS 10 and classic 9 which I still run. I am no expert --just a long time user of Macs--and some highly technical jargon will go over my head,like the type of memory, etc. Let's assume the memory is the right one, what else can I do to make it run faster?
It will tend to make applications run faster, depending on how much you have now. Where it will be most noticed (where I noticed it at least) was in switching between applications. On my 1.33GHz G4 iBook with the stock 256 Mb of RAM whenever I switched applications it would sit on the beach ball cursor for awhile. When I added the 1Gb RAM module it got very snappy switching apps and only rarely went to the beachball.
And last question, will it accept Leopard so I can run newer apps? I think the answer to this is YES,just comfirming.
Yes it can. If it's a 800MHz model you'll need Leopard Assist or some other trick to install it. Leopard won't, on it's own, install on a G4 with a CPU clock below 867 MHz.
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