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1gig or 1.5gigs for PB?
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When I had my 12" PB, the 1gig chip boosted it up to 1.25gigs vs. 768 (if I would have gotten the 512 instead). Now that I have 512mb built in with the 15" PB, I have to figure out whether 1.5 gigs is overkill. I was thinking about selling the 1 gig chip and getting a 512mb instead.
What do you guys think? The 1 gig chip is from outpost, so I paid $180 for it out the door. A 512mb chip will run me like $120, so its not THAT much of a saving. What do you guys think?
Edit: I should mention what I use my PB for. It is my only computer, I do some light gaming, browsing, music, some photoshop, virtual pc, and chatting. Sometimes a lot of those at the same time.
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Keep the max amount of ram. $60 in the short run isn't worth not having enough ram when you need it. And while you may not need it now, what about 6 months or a year from now?
No sense potentially handicapping your new PowerBook for such a meager savings.
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Originally posted by Randman:
Keep the max amount of ram. $60 in the short run isn't worth not having enough ram when you need it. And while you may not need it now, what about 6 months or a year from now?
No sense potentially handicapping your new PowerBook for such a meager savings.
That's pretty much what I was thinking, although I wasn't sure if I'd ever need that extra 512.
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You're lucky your 1 gig chip plays nice with your 15". I bought a 1 gig stick of Kingmax RAM from Newegg last week and it was horrible. Nice and zippy at first, then everything started crashing and the machine would lock up (not even a kernel panic). To top it all off, Newegg wants to charge me a $28 restocking fee. I only had the RAM for a few hours before I was on their site requesting an RMA.
Keep the 1 gig in there 
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Yeah, that was it. There are dozens of reviews on Newegg saying that the RAM plays nicely with various recent Aluminum Powerbooks, I guess mine was just not the case. I guess it could have been a bad stick, but I requested a refund rather than a new stick of the same RAM. It felt strange buy RAM from someone other than Crucial, but I decided that I didn't want to pay as much some of the more reputable vendors were charging for the same stuff.
Now I can't help but feel like I should have known better. It sucks to go out on a limb and get burned like this. Now I'm bitter, out $28 in restocking fees, and even more wary about purchasing generic RAM.
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well ****, i ordered the 1gb kingmax ram from newegg for my new 15inch pb. my pb hasn't come yet, but the ram has. i read all the reviews and it seemed fine. i hope i dont have your same experience.
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Looks like I'm getting a pretty unanimous vote to keep the 1 gig. I already threw it in the laptop and it seems to work fine. Thanks for the feedback guys 
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I've got that stick in my iBook and it's perfect. Of course it's underclocked at 266 though.
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Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Yeah, that was it. There are dozens of reviews on Newegg saying that the RAM plays nicely with various recent Aluminum Powerbooks, I guess mine was just not the case. I guess it could have been a bad stick, but I requested a refund rather than a new stick of the same RAM. It felt strange buy RAM from someone other than Crucial, but I decided that I didn't want to pay as much some of the more reputable vendors were charging for the same stuff.
Now I can't help but feel like I should have known better. It sucks to go out on a limb and get burned like this. Now I'm bitter, out $28 in restocking fees, and even more wary about purchasing generic RAM.
I bought the same stick for my 15" 1.67ghz PB, and it has worked very well - at least for the past 2 weeks since I installed it.
Not to defend for the company, but I'm guessing you just got very lucky... but I agree they should accept full refund. Don't they have life-time warranty for memory items?
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