iMac G5, Memory, and Leopard

[NeverhadaPC]

I have an iMac G5 with 1 GB RAM that is limping around with Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Safari, email, MS Office) and am considering a RAM upgrade to 2GB in hopes of speeding up my old iMac. From OWC, I found the upgrade for 60ish dollars.

Is the RAM upgrade going to noticeably improve my iMac's performance? Any experience with fully upgraded iMac memory?

Thanks

 

[Detrius]

It's likely to improve it, but it's still an iMac G5 running Leopard, so it's still going to be slow.

 

[NeverhadaPC]

Thanks for your recommendation.

The min (rec'd) requirement for Leopard is 512 (1 GB) and right now I have 1 GB. I check Activity Monitor and Safari alone takes up (after running for a while) 500 MB RAM.

That's why I hope a RAM upgrade from 1 GB to 2 GB would really improve things... but I have nothing to compare against.

 

[Tech Elementz]

I don't think it necessarily give a significant speed boost, but you should be able to load more apps at once with no [less] problems...