On my iBook SE 466, I went from 192MB to 320MB when running Jaguar, and the speed bump was very very noticable. I still have too many swap-files created on it though(routinely 1 GB), and when I got an iMac 17"(800) later, I got 512 MB, as I thought that was a lot :-). That seems to run okay, but when running a large number of apps, I find that it is getting too slow too, even though Apple's VM is performing very well, so when I got my brand new AlBook 15" a couple of weeks ago, I got a full gigabyte with it, and it performs acceptable, although it is pretty easy for me to run out of physical RAM-space anyway. At the moment I have 2GB worth of swapfiles, and I only have a few *cough* apps running. I guess more is always better :-)
But do get the extra 512 MB RAM. 256 does not cut it, given the needs of OSX. Cheers, Kim On 01/04/04 2:55, "Moulton, Pete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kim > Thanks for the advice. I presently have 160Mb RAM but looks like I will > have to go for 512MB to do anything serious. I assumed 256MB would be OK > for run of the mill stuff like writing letters, browsing the the web, > emails and tweaking the odd photo here and there. I'm surprised that > some of the iMacs shipped with Mac OS X only had 128Mb RAM installed. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
