[hotani]

I have a wallstreet and am planning to upgrade to a Ti. However, I wanted to go ahead and get RAM (256) if I can use it now in the Wallstreet, then move it over when I upgrade.

will the low profile 256 chip work in both? If so where is a good place to get it?



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[Paul S]

Physically the chip will fit, but I wouldn't use it. The difference is the Wallstreet (black keyboard) and Lombard (bronze keyboard, no FireWire) PowerBook's used PC66 SO DIMMs for RAM. The Pismo (bronze keyboard w/ FireWire) and new TiBook's use PC100 SO DIMMs.

66MHz RAM would work in both, but is slower than the PowerBook G4's potential. The 100MHz is faster than the Wallstreet/Lombard was made to support and may cause problems, if it let's you boot at all.

[hotani]

thanks! I called macsolutions.com earlier and they gave a thumbs down on it, just said "nope, won't work".

I just ordered a 256 MB chip for the wallstreet for $89 from macsolutions.com, I think that is cheap enough. I will just cough up the $200 or so when I get the G4 later...

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[G4ME]

Ram is very cheap for the new G4s, for 256 its around 89 go to
ramseeker.com
for the up to date info on cheap ram they have all the venders.

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[This message has been edited by G4ME (edited 04-05-2001).]

[hotani]

I received the ram I bought for the wallstreet, and it says 'pc100' on there. It fits and works fine.

when I ordered it, they did not say if it was low profile or not - but isn't the pc100 what is used in the g4?

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[Paul S]

From everything I've read the TiBook uses PC100 SO (small outline) DIMMs so that chip should transfer. It's odd that it works in your Wallstreet. I guess you're lucky on that one