How much memory for tiger ?

[veryfastmac]

I just bought a pismo and installed a G4 550 cpu upgrade and am running tiger with 512mb of ram my question is will it be worth the cash to upgrade the ram to 1gig? I already put a 160 gig hd 5400 rpm and everything seems to be running great but I have just orderd a DvD burner and plan to use it to copy Comercial DVD's so I can take the back up copy and leave the original at home.I must admit although this is not my first mac it is my first mac laptop and I am pretty pleased over all .I was selling alot of the G4 upgrades and felt it was time that I actually owned one so when a customer asks I can tell them from personal experience instead of reading them the company memo's

 

[Chundles]

512MB really is the minimum you should have for 10.4, 1GB would really make a difference.

 

[zap2]

It would help, and since its a low end G4(still nice but its a fairly older chip) the 1Gb RAM would help things move along

 

[veryfastmac]

I will order the memory right away,thanks for the quick replies

 

[DarkNetworks]

Anything less than 1GB is a pain...

 

[netdog]

How much memory does Tiger want?

All of it.

 

[eXan]

Yes, I agree with everyone: for smooth performance in simple tasks (no Aperture for example) 1GB is fine. For serious heavy work, 2 GBs is minimum. (I'm speaking out of my own experience)

 

[slackersonly]

i started with 500mb and thought well this is ok.
i then upgraded to 1.5gb and am very glad i did. i like to have 4-5 apps open at once and 1.5gb works great.

 

[JFreak]

1GB/CPU is fine with even very serious audio/video work, but more memory never hurts.

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

Hah. My TiBook has only 384 and it's running Tiger decently. Course, it's not a speed demon, but it gets the job done.