Is the 17 in G4 iMac max SODIMM greater than spec?

[Sonic Idiot]

Greetings. I've searched this forum, but could not find an answer to a pretty straight up question.

Apple specs for the 17" iMac G4 state each slot (one user accessible, one not) can take a 512 meg chip. But I've read that this spec is under inflated and that the machine will accept a 1 gig SODIMM in the user slot and perform beyond the state maximum RAM spec. Has anyone done this? Is the max spec too low?

Currently, the machine has a 256 meg chip in each slot (PC2700).

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[gageray]

I have a 17" 1GHz iMac G4 with 1.25Gb of ram. The non-user accessible slot has a 256Mb dimm and I have upgraded the user accessible slot to a 1Gb sodimm. Long story short it is possible, and it runs great.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

Ever since the first iMac came out, users have discovered that Apple's max memory specs for these machines have been conservative. I know that many of the CRT G3 iMacs could accept 50-100% more RAM than they were officially able to. I have had no experience with this on the G4 iMacs though.

 

[Sonic Idiot]

gagray,

I was hoping to hear that. Seems like $100 well spent. Thanks for the reply.