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is 256MB of ram still enough for a newb?
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I'm talking this woman who knows nothing about computers but wants one to get the base model iBook. It has 256 megs of ram, 30 gigs, and 800mhz. I can't see how she would need more than this.
She wants to email, surf the web and use iTunes/iPhoto.
Is anyone here using 256MB of ram and think its fine for low-level consumer usage?
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Yes. It works just fine in Panther.
In Jaguar, it was pretty slow 
But if you run a lot of memory/processor intensive apps, the more RAM, the better.
Oh, and I'm on a G3 700 iBook 
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256 should be good enough, at least to start. If she knows nothing about computers, I doubt she'll be doing much heavy duty multitasking
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As mentioned, 256 is good to start. If she ever starts to complain about 'slowness', she should definitely up the RAM.
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Sounds just like my wife
The off the shelf 256MB of RAM is fine for her needs. When I commented I wanted to purchase extra RAM for the iBook, my wife's first response was "Why, the iBook is fast enough! It does everything we need it to do just fine."
Of course, I upgraded anyway 
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256Mb is fine for general use. Office v.X isn't so good with it though...
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Originally posted by PeterClark2002:
256Mb is fine for general use. Office v.X isn't so good with it though...
Really? As long as I don't have 21 programs open like I sometimes do (literally!,) Office v.X runs just fine.
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IMHO, 256MB is absolute bare minimum. 384MB would be much better (built-in 128MB + a 256MB SO-DIMM).
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