Originally posted by Phat Bastard:
Does anyone have any idea if the same can be done, albeit with more difficulty, in the 12" Powerbook?
Sure it can be done. Anything
can be done. Oh, by the way, how are your surface mount soldering skills?
The iMac upgrade is easy, because all it involves is getting at a "hidden" RAM slot. Once you crack open the half-melon, swapping the included DIMM for something bigger is pretty easy, or certainly no harder than changing the RAM in a G4 tower.
The 128MB of internal RAM in the 12" PB and the iBooks is soldered to the motherboard -- it's permanent, not a removable SO-DIMM. While someone with the right skills could probably swap the chips for higher density ones, that strikes me as a tremendous amount of work for not a lot of gain.
-A.