[Mallrat]

I'm going to upgrade from the base 256MB that came with my iMac G4 20inch.

I was wondering for doing mostly straight cutting, would adding a 512 stick to the user slot, be enough?

The 1gb seem to cost a lot more, and I'm not so sure of the ones that seem to be too cheap to be true.

So will 768MB fit my needs, as it fits my price?

[Abit667]

Yeah, the 768 should be enough. The difference from 256 to 768 is massive and 768 is pretty much required unless you want to sit there while its grinding away. 768 to 1gig isn't as much of difference, so if you don't want to spend the extra money you're not really missing out on anything.

[dlefebvre]

It will make a difference when you use applications that use the RAM as a cache. In After Effets and Combustion the extra 256Mb of going fom 768Mb to 1024Mb will give you a few extra seconds of RAM Preview.

[buddhabelly]

Originally posted by dlefebvre:
It will make a difference when you use applications that use the RAM as a cache. In After Effets and Combustion the extra 256Mb of going fom 768Mb to 1024Mb will give you a few extra seconds of RAM Preview.

It will make a large difference of the overall performance of your mac. OS X is RAM hungry. The more the merrier. The reason performance will be improved is because you'll be writing to your swap memory file less.