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Phossil · Jun 10, 2005, 02:27 AM

According to this -> http://www.powerbookmedic.com/2GB-Po...e-p-16619.html the 2GB stick will work in "all models" I know a 2GB stick is not offered by Apple, but would it be reconized and utalized in a 12" Powerbook?

ericssonboi · Jun 10, 2005, 02:46 AM

Off the Apple website..

Processor and Memory
12-inch models
1.5GHz PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine, 512K SRAM on-chip L2 cache, 167MHz system bus
512MB of PC2700 (333MHz) DDR SDRAM; one SO-DIMM slot; support for up to 1.25GB

Phossil · Jun 10, 2005, 02:56 AM

I realize it says that, but sometimes the max capacity is not always true, a SO-DIMM slot should support any SO-DIMM RAM, as this website says available for all models, it might be true.

havocidal · Jun 10, 2005, 03:15 AM

woah... imagine using 2gb rams on powermacs... that would give u a max of 16gb... like WOAH!!!

wtmcgee · Jun 10, 2005, 06:56 AM

It should work. The first gen 12" powerbook said they could only hold 768mb RAM (that was before 1gb sticks were mainstream), but I and many others put 1gb sticks in there and it worked fine.

wuzup101 · Jun 10, 2005, 07:37 AM

Yeah, I would assume it would work as long at 2.25 gigs of ram is under the chipset/processor limitations (is that 4gb currently)? As the above poster mentioned this has happened in the past when a larger stick worked but wasnt' readily avaliable at the time the machines were made. Hence the numbers Apple uses are based on the "biggest at the time" and 2gb sticks might very well work.

skelotar · Jun 10, 2005, 07:37 AM

This is a 500 dollar stick of ram... I'd be more likely to desolder the on-board ram off and add two 1 gig sticks before I went and bought a 500 dollar stick of ram that might not even work.

chabig · Jun 10, 2005, 08:35 AM

A new motherboard costs much more than $500. I certainly wouldn't recommend soldering on the motherboard (chance of success-close to nil) when you can try the SODIMM and return it for a refund if it doesn't work.

By the way, unsoldering the RAM on the motherboard doesn't magically make a new socket appear.

Chris

d.fine · Jun 10, 2005, 09:41 AM

If it works maybe we can put 4GB DDR in 15 and 17" PB's, that would be nice! ;D

ibook_steve · Jun 10, 2005, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by skelotar

This is a 500 dollar stick of ram... I'd be more likely to desolder the on-board ram off and add two 1 gig sticks before I went and bought a 500 dollar stick of ram that might not even work.

There's only one RAM slot in the 12".

Steve

skelotar · Jun 10, 2005, 10:12 AM

sarcasm missed

but if you want to consider this, in theory, if there is onboard ram, its probably a ram module which would still have 200 pins and again, in theory, you could remove and solder on a new module..

I'm all about modding hardware.. as long as its not mine

ibook_steve · Jun 10, 2005, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by skelotar

sarcasm missed

but if you want to consider this, in theory, if there is onboard ram, its probably a ram module which would still have 200 pins and again, in theory, you could remove and solder on a new module..

I'm all about modding hardware.. as long as its not mine

I'm an engineer. We have no idea what sarcasm is.

No, it's 4 soldered down pieces of 512 Mbit DDR333 in TSSOP packages. In theory, when 1 Gbit memory comes down in price and power, you could replace the onboard RAM.

Steve

bighead · Jun 10, 2005, 11:40 AM

It looks like they are advertising a 2GB kit, which would contain two 1GB SODIMMs. Manufacturers like Micron are having a hard time getting non-ECC RAM into 2GB full size DIMMs. I doubt that these guys have a source fabbing 2GB SODIMMs, at least not at that price.

Also, non-G5 machines won't recognize anything beyond 2GB anyways. I installed (3) 1GB PC2700 DIMMs into my MDD, and no matter what combination I used, it never recognized beyond 2GB of RAM.

Phossil · Jun 10, 2005, 01:06 PM

Just emailed the makers of the kit about it and got this response:

Eric,

The chip will not work in the 12". We will revise the description. Let me
know if you have any other questions.

-Bradley

But in theory a 2GB stick would still work, right? I upgraded my Xbox RAM to 128MB (by soldering chips directly to the mobo) and it worked fine. Regardless of the response it still seems possible.

Does anyone have access to a 2GB stick that they could try this out with?

jdmish · Jul 9, 2006, 12:54 PM

Has this ever been followed up? I'm curious about this as well. It's time to buy ram and if a 2gb stick would work then i'm all for it.

imitchellg5 · Jul 9, 2006, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by havocidal

woah... imagine using 2gb rams on powermacs... that would give u a max of 16gb... like WOAH!!!

You can order a Power Mac G5 with 16 gigs.

harrisjamieh · Jul 9, 2006, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by imitchellg5

You can order a Power Mac G5 with 16 gigs.

That post was quite a while ago - perhaps the PMs could not be config'd with that amount of memory at that time....

imitchellg5 · Jul 9, 2006, 03:22 PM

Sorry. I didn't notice the date.