I'm looking to get a stick of 512mb, but I want to know by experience if I should actually shell out much more money for Apple branded RAM, or if I should stick to Crucial or generic RAM.
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RAM question!
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I've always bought RAM from Crucial and never had a problem. I bought a stick of 512MB from them ($110.99) for my PB and opted to pay an extra $90 on my system to have the base 512MB all on one stick. As a bonus, it is ridiculously easy to install on these machines.
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I agree that buying ram from apple is a rip off. even now with their discount on memory upgrades its still more expensive. simply buy apple spec ram from someone else and you will pay less. I don't recomend generic ram as its usually less compatible and slower. remember, all your ram stick can only run as fast as the slowest one.
I use TransIntl.com and have only had good experiences with my Powerbook. It's also the cheapest lifetime warranty RAM you can buy.
You guys rock, thanks a lot!
Edit: On http://www.transintl.com/macupgrades/index.cfmhttp://www.transintl.com/macupgrades/index.cfm, it shows that the iBook G4 supports up to more than 1GB of RAM! I know what Apple says up to 640mb, but I know it's been discussed that you can put a 1GB stick it, and it may perform better than just the 512 stick. Anyone know what the site's talking about?
Edit: On http://www.transintl.com/macupgrades/index.cfmhttp://www.transintl.com/macupgrades/index.cfm, it shows that the iBook G4 supports up to more than 1GB of RAM! I know what Apple says up to 640mb, but I know it's been discussed that you can put a 1GB stick it, and it may perform better than just the 512 stick. Anyone know what the site's talking about?
After a bit of searching:
"The ibook G4 models have one available memory expansion slot for main memory expansion and 128 MB of RAM soldered on the system logic board. Trans Intl.'s*1 Gigabyte (GB) memory upgrades double the memory density of available memory expansion to 1 GB. Without this upgrade, the system memory capacity was limited to a total of 640 MB of main memory as currently specified in Apple documentation."
Seems that the gig stick would actually perform like a gig stick. Any $.02?
"The ibook G4 models have one available memory expansion slot for main memory expansion and 128 MB of RAM soldered on the system logic board. Trans Intl.'s*1 Gigabyte (GB) memory upgrades double the memory density of available memory expansion to 1 GB. Without this upgrade, the system memory capacity was limited to a total of 640 MB of main memory as currently specified in Apple documentation."
Seems that the gig stick would actually perform like a gig stick. Any $.02?