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15" PB going from 256 to 768Mb RAM help
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: sydney, australia
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Hi everyone,
i have a 15" PB (1GHz, 256 ram), and need advice on whether an extra 512 stick will help with the following...
Whenever i have say 4-5 safari windows open and another app, and then use expose to switch between windows...the motion of switching is not smooth. It's pretty jerky and makes my system seem slow. It's a bit hard to explain, but the windows kinda jerk into the corners when i feel this should be smooth.
This also happens if i go to display the dock (i have it on "auto-hide") and move the mouse over items in it. The magnifier kinda jumps over a few icons and lags behind the mouse pointer.
Mind you this is all smooth if i have no programs loaded, or just 1 or 2 windows open of any single application.
My assumption is that more ram will fix this but if any of you could confirm this that would be great. This way i won't spend money for nothing.
Cheers
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Obviously 256RAM is not enough and I suspect this would be the cause of all your problems. The more program you opened, the more memory it sucks up, plus the fact that OS X is a memory eater. So my advice is go ahead and do the upgrade.
Just my 2 cents...
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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You'll notice brand new life in your machine after even a 256MB upgrade. OS X needs atleast 512MB of RAM to be used on a normal basis (ie. having a few apps open like iTunes, Safari, and Word). That being said there is a huge sale at outpost.com for 1GB RAM chips, there's a thread here about it too, you should check it out (only about $40 more then a 512MB chip and twice the RAM).
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Yep been reading about that. Unfortunately they don't ship internationally.
Wish i had relatives in the us.
So do you people who have 512+MB RAM experience any of what i've described in the original post? If not then i'll definitely buy another stick.
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