[Mediaman_12]

I have just bought a New G5 (duel 1.8) as an upgrade to my old G4 (duel 1ghz). I wanted to sell it while it was still worth something.
Due to me being unaware about how picky these machines are with there RAM (not just any old DDR 3200 works, it's got to be the 'Right' DDR RAM??) I am currently using it with it's stock 256MB.
DEAR GOD THIS SUCKS, I honestly cant believe Apple thinks this amount of RAM is any way acceptable. I can here the disk (thanks to the G5 being lovely and quiet) so I KNOW that it's almost continually paging stuff to and from the disk, between large apps I would understand, but between Safari and MAIL(, or when I roll over the icons on this text entry panel)? Running iTunes in the background to play my music is impossible, it keeps stopping while something else is dragged from the disk.
OK so I was spoiled with my 700 or so MB on my old G4 but this is no way this is acceptable. I am beginning to think I should have saved my cash and just bought a 'Core Graphics' capable graphics card and Tiger for my old G4.

[Eug Wanker]

So buy some more RAM. Problem solved.

[Mediaman_12]

I did. I called in to a PC component store on the way home while the G5 was still in the trunk. Unfortunately the spec sheet I printed off the Apple site neglected to say that the RAM needs to be $hit hot for it to work in the G5.
I am now waiting 1025MB by Mail Order from Crucial.

[The Ancient One]

Crucial will work. Always does. I've got a gig of it in my dual 800.

[Sage]

Yeah – we had to wait for a week for the 1 Gig of RAM to come for our G5 iMac. In the meantime, it was damn near unusable… imagine how many non-computer-savvy people out there bought the iMac with 256 MB of RAM, and think the whole computer itself is slow. Adding that 1 GB really changed it – felt like a whole new computer was added!

[Kristoff]

Or, you could set the two DUAL processor machines side-by-side and have a CPU DUEL.

[Kristoff]

Oh yeah, I have a couple sticks of 128 MB from my G5 if you want, you can PM me with an offer.