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Memory Upgrades ???
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Jul 24, 2004, 01:46 AM
 
Howdy Mac brothers and sisters !!!
Can anyone advise me on the best way to go about upgrading my RAM memory? I use an Ivory iBook, G3 800mhz, 256RAM, 30G HD, OSX.2.8 Recently, my iBook has begun to run rather sluggishly. Now out of the 30G in my Hard Drive I have 13G available. I am wondering if it is the fact that my HD is filling up or is it that I need more RAM. I'd like to know what, where and how to upgrade the RAM. I hear that I can only get 512MG more RAM. I have 128 built in so that pumps it up to 640MG RAM. Is there any way to tweek that even higher? any and all advice/info/guidance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Jul 24, 2004, 01:58 AM
 
You might get more replies by posting this in the iBook forum instead of the Powerbook forum. However, I'm farily certain that even though apple quoted your machine with a max ram cap of 640mb that you can indeed upgrade with a 1gb stick for a total of 1024+128 = 1152mb of solid ram power... lol. However, as I'm far from an iBook expert, I would need someone else to confirm this!
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Jul 24, 2004, 02:26 AM
 
Man, you are music to these ears. Sorry for posting in the wring area. Wont happen again. Well not until I get a new G5 powerbook. That's a litlle while off yet. Boy, if I am glad that I put the word out here because I was thinking the same thing. If a 1G single stick SODIMM RAM memory exists for other powerbooks then why not mine? The issue on mine seems to be the fact that I only have one slot for a memory stick to go into. Hence, before the max RAM that was available was 512MG but now, they produce 1G RAM in one stick. I do hope that it si feesible for me to install a 1G RAM stick into my iBook G3, 800mhz 256RAM, 30G HD. Any more advice on this would be greatly appreciated. I am not going to buy until I get all the facts. I wan to get the max RAM I can install. Thanks.
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