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Anyone upped an iBook 500 from 256 to 640 RAM?
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Just wondering if I'll notice the difference. Got the RAM on order - £100! It was £150 in the student Apple store! Better be good. I figure this and Panther will give a new lease of life to the machine.
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Originally posted by willed:
Just wondering if I'll notice the difference. Got the RAM on order - £100! It was £150 in the student Apple store! Better be good. I figure this and Panther will give a new lease of life to the machine.
My 600mhz iBook is at 640mb. However, it was at 384 before the upgrade. There wasn't a huge difference between 384 and 640. The main difference is that now I can pretty much open as many applications as I want without fear of swapping to disk. As soon as the system starts swapping to disk... chug... chug... chug.
I imagine that there will be a larger difference between 256 and 640.
Regarding Panther: I've been using the seeded builds (i'm a developer) and they simply fly on my 600mhz iBook. The added UI speed alone is definately worth the price of an upgrade. My roommate bought a new 1.25ghz 15" Powerbook and Jaguar was almost painful to use in comparison to 10.3. 10.2 will never be on my machine again.
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Originally posted by buzzedtop:
Regarding Panther: I've been using the seeded builds (i'm a developer) and they simply fly on my 600mhz iBook. The added UI speed alone is definately worth the price of an upgrade. My roommate bought a new 1.25ghz 15" Powerbook and Jaguar was almost painful to use in comparison to 10.3. 10.2 will never be on my machine again.
Just wondering - do you have the 8MB VRAM or 16MB version? (I guess QE kicks in if you have the latter). Cheers,
Will
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Originally posted by willed:
Just wondering - do you have the 8MB VRAM or 16MB version? (I guess QE kicks in if you have the latter). Cheers,
Will
i have the older model with 8MB VRAM. I don't have QE. However, I've really only noticed 2 drawbacks: 1) No shadow under the mouse pointer, 2) No spiffy spinning graphic with fast user switching.
I don't care about either.
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I have the same iBook. I figured if the slot is there and you can afford to max it out then do it. 640 MB isn't a lot these days (Powerbook 15 and 17 get up to 2 GB).
My 2 year old iBook with 640 MB RAM is more than useable and I rarely run into slowdowns unlike by friend's iMac G4 with 128 MB RAM.
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