Thanks. Guess I'll have to choose between 768M or 1G and a throw-away 256 for the powerbook.
Hen On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 bcforrest at cox.net wrote: > Make sure it's Low Profile SO-DIMMs (about 1"). The Low Profile is important. > Larger chips have traditionaly been made with two rows of chips on either > side of the board, making a very tall chip (about 1-1/2") that will not fit > properly in newer Powerbooks and iBooks. The 500Mhz iBook has either 64MB or > 128MB of Ram in a proprietary slot on the motherboard and another slot where > the user can add memory underneath the keyboard. Remove the keyboard and you > will see a metal plate with two small screws in it (size 0 or 00). Remove the > two screws. Remove the metal plate, and the chip slot is underneath. The > memory chips are keyed, so they will only go in one way. > > In the titanium, all you have to do is remove the keyboard, and the chips are > right there. > > Max Memory for the 500mhz iBook is either 576MB or 640MB, depending on if > yours came standard with 64MB or 128MB of RAM. > > Hope this helps! > > Bryan Forrest > Macintosh Specialist > LifeNet > http://www.lifenet.org > > > > > > From: Henri Yandell <bayard at generationjava.com> > > Date: 2003/04/01 Tue PM 12:52:00 EST > > To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > > Subject: MacGroup: Apple memory ibook/powerbook > > > > > > I have a 400mhz titanium powerbook 256 Meg. My wife has a 500mhz ibook 128 > > Meg. > > > > I want to buy a gig of memory [crucial have it for 120 dollars per 512] > > and then put my 256M into my wife's machine. > > > > Looking on crucial, it seems to say that the ibook 500 and the powerbook > > 400 use the same type of memory, but it charges different prices so I'm > > not sure. Does anyone know if I can do this? > > > > Also, I assume it's easy enough to fiddle with the memory in an apple > > laptop? ie) the same style of thing as an airport card installation. > > Powerbook gets unscrewed, ibook lifts the keyboard etc. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Hen > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
