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More Ram In An iBook
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Apr 2005
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I currently have 512mb of RAM in my 1.2 iBook. How much of an increase in performance would i see if i increased this to a total 1.2GB ram?
I mean on a daily basis i use Safari, Mail, iTunes and occasionally Adium, Azuerus, so would i even notice a difference in performance?
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Orlando, Florida
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You'll be able to have more Safari windows open, update more iTunes podcasts without slowdown, and...download more torrents at one time (with less computer slowdown). I have 1.5gb of RAM in my iBook and it works well. The bottleneck is my harddrive and CPU 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2006
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OSX is a RAM hog. I definitely think that you would notice the difference with more RAM in it. It may be more cost-effective, however, given your usage to get 768MB (total).
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Do you still have an open slot? or is the one open slot filled? I would strongly recommend going to at least 768. The advantages are marginal after that imho. But quite noticeable up to 768.
Chris
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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if you want to preserve ram (even the little you have now) disable dashboard. its the best thing you could ever do ram-wise.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Downtown Austin, TX
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I've got 1.25 GB in my 12" 1.2 iBook. I mainly use Safari, iChat, iTunes, MS Word, Terminal, and Text Wrangler on a daily basis and I never find myself running low on RAM. However, the biggest bottleneck is the slow and small 30 GB hard drive this thing has. I've got AppleCare until October 2007 so until then I'm just going to deal with it and then get a nice fast notebook drive and put it in then.
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