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Another RAM question

Nov 10, 2007 12:30AM PST

Would it be beneficial (vs cost) to upgrade from 1gb ram to 2gb? I am running 10.4.10 on a 1.67ghz powerbook G4. The machine is not used for any particularly intensive computing. Just wondering if there would improvement by upgrading. Thanks for any and all input.

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Macs like RAM upgrades
Nov 10, 2007 1:15AM PST

Maxing out your RAM can't be a bad thing. However, if you don't have any RAM intensive programs and you don't do video editing then you may personally not find much advantage to upgrading your machine. PC 2700 is cheap nowadays (I think that is what your powerbook takes) so upgrading should cost you less than a hundred bucks.

Open up "about this mac" from the apple menu on your menu bar. Click on more info and copy your serial number... go to this site LINK and paste in your serial number in the "Find by Serial Number" box and click the magnifying glass. This should take you to your machine's specs page and tell you what upgrades you can make.

cheers

grim

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Thank You
Nov 10, 2007 3:55AM PST

Will probably do it due to the relatively low cost and what appears to me to be a pretty straight forward installation. Appreciate the input.

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But whatever you do
Nov 10, 2007 9:35PM PST

DON'T buy the RAM upgrade from Apple. They'll charge you around twice as much, apparently. Crucial does PC2700 RAM (if that is what you machine takes, I know my Windows laptop does) but the prices too were steep earlier this year.

unless you absolutely need it though, I don't see the point in putting so much RAM in. I really don't think you will see ANY performance improvement, at all.

1GB is fine to run even Leopard.

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Have to agree
Nov 12, 2007 12:34AM PST

After thinking it over more, i think i'll stay with what i have for now since i really don't have a "need" for the upgrade at this time. Thanks for the input

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(NT) You're welcome, thanks for the update.
Nov 12, 2007 1:07AM PST