iBook: How much difference does exxtra RAM make?

[GanChan]

I have a 1.2GHz G4 iBook with the stock 256 MB of RAM (which was always too little, I know). What kind of performance boost can I expect if I max out the RAM to 1.5 GB or whatever the maximum is on this model? I'm running Tiger on it and most of my work is simple word processing and web surfing.

Worth it?

 

[CubeHacker]

I would expect application load times and switching between apps to become much quicker and more responsive.

 

[Hrududu]

256MB is barely enough to boot the OS. If you upgrade, you'll be introduced to the wonderful world of multitasking. Being able to run the OS AND a program or two is a wonderful thing.

 

[PowerGamerX]

256MB is barely enough to boot the OS. If you upgrade, you'll be introduced to the wonderful world of multitasking. Being able to run the OS AND a program or two is a wonderful thing.

I know! OS 9 has so many cool features.

(I know he's running Tiger haha, just poking fun at the aging of PowerPC machines)

 

[disconap]

It will make a world of difference.

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

It will make a world of difference.

+123456789 lol

You will get increased performance as your page file must be huge. All that swapping back and forth to the hard drive really slows things down. It's 2010, we should all have at least 8GB of memory

The max that yours can take is 1.25gb or 1gb of PC2700 333mhz memory. You can also use PC3200 400mhz memory too. This is DDR memory and not DDR2 or DDR3.

 

[Dirty Harry]

I upgraded the same model from 768Mb to 1,25Gb RAM (maximum it can handle) and the computer works much smoother and slightly faster. 768Mb was enough with Tiger, but when upgrading to Leopard I could clearly feel more RAM was needed.