[Spartan24]

Hi everyone
Recently sold my TiBook in anticipation of the new AL15 and am getting ready to order it. My question concerns the difficulty of buying and self installing ram from a third party rather than Apple. The price difference just seems too great to waste it on the ram with apple.

I downloaded the PDF file from the apple site and this really doesn't look to tough to do. Is there anything special I should know, or is it really as simple as remove and replace for both tiers of Ram?

Also, I wonder if you will really get a performance boost if you go above 1 Gig of Ram? I don't do any heavy graphics work, just use it mostly for a work machine.. I do know that I was disappointed somewhat in how Virtual PC with WinXP ran on the old Tibook 1gig with 1 gig of ram. Anyone think more ram would help this application?

Thanks for your opinion.

[Bruck]

Do you think win98 would run better than winxp ? in VPC? i dont really need winxp, i just have a few small pc apps i am going to run and it would be nice if there was no visable lag.

[TAZ]

The RAM install is rather simple and safe, especially with the new PB's. Make sure you have the CORRECT sized screw driver or you will strip the heads off of the buggers very easily. Ignore that if youre using he removable keyboard fo the Ti. Make sure you take your time and not rush it. The plastic retention clasps can be broken if you force it or gorilla your way about. Ground yourself out on the metal frame of the computer by toughing it so any static doesnt mess with the module. Honestly, typing this out was longer than doing the update.

As far as VPC goes. I am running XP-Pro on a 12" with 768 Meg RAM. With all the graphics goofiness of XP turned off and as much memory allocated as OSX allows and NOT running anything else in the background it runs mediocre, but useable. You have to make sure you have the RAM allocated to VPC in your settings. Just having it in the computer wont make any difference. The minimum that VPC automatically allocates is just that, the minimum needed to run the program. I hear the 98 or 2000 run better than XP. Must be all the fancy graphics and such that slow XP down to a crawl on VPC.

[workerbee]

Originally posted by Spartan24:
Hi everyone
Recently sold my TiBook in anticipation of the new AL15 and am getting ready to order it. My question concerns the difficulty of buying and self installing ram from a third party rather than Apple. The price difference just seems too great to waste it on the ram with apple.

I'm just about ready to sell my TiBook 800 and go for the new 17", too.

Opening a few apps like Flash/Dreamweaver/Fireworks MX 2004 plus Word and Entourage.X really uses a lot of RAM, and I also often have VPC open to check how sites look in Windows... installing 1.5 or even 2GB of RAM sounds really tempting at this point, but not at Apple's fantastically ridiculous prices ( I can get a TiBook 1.25GHz with 1GB RAM for less than the Apple Store price for the stock 512MB. 1 GB at the Apple store is about US$ 450 more expensive).

Where would you folks buy those 1GB RAM goodies? I've checked yesterday and have not found anything. TIA!

[Sakino]

Originally posted by workerbee:

Where would you folks buy those 1GB RAM goodies? I've checked yesterday and have not found anything. TIA!

i have only found 1gb single dims at 650$+ Which is kind of sad because I could have gotten a 1gb dim for 400$ thru apple but the ship date was well into october with it. I was thinking about calling apple and seeing if i could pay the 400$ more for the ram and just have them ship it to me when it comes in. Do you think this is possible, or are they going to laugh at me on the phone?

[Spartan24]

I know these powerbooks love Ram, but I keep hearing the real sweet spot is 512.. I had 1 gig in my last PB and it seemed to run fine, except for VPC (and I allocated 512 to that app). I just can't see spending 50% of the price of the machine just to max out the ram, unless someone could tell me or show me where this had a significant impact on some of these applications like Dreamweaver Flash, Fireworks.. etc.. Of course I realize that there probably hasn't been a lot of experience here with these huge ram limits as these latest machines with this capacity have just come out.

Saklino, it might be worth a call, however my bet is that becuase they install it for you, they won't agree to ship orders in pieces like that.