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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / August 2007Memory capacity of PowerBook Pismo?
It started as a G3 PowerBook Pismo, and has been upgraded to a G4. How much memory could I upgrade to? It is currently at 1GB.  Signature+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian Gordon -->briang@panix.com<-- brian dot gordon at cox dot net | + Bass: Lexington "Main Street Harmonizers" chorus + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > It started as a G3 PowerBook Pismo, and has been upgraded to a G4. How much > memory could I upgrade to? It is currently at 1GB. That's it! SignatureDaveC me@bogusdomain.net This is an invalid return address Please reply in the news group >> It started as a G3 PowerBook Pismo, and has been upgraded to a G4. How much >> memory could I upgrade to? It is currently at 1GB. > >That's it! Damn, I was afraid that was it :-( Signature+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian Gordon -->briang@panix.com<-- brian dot gordon at cox dot net | + Bass: Lexington "Main Street Harmonizers" chorus + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > Damn, I was afraid that was it :-( 1 GB of memory should give respectible performance with a G3 processor. Needless to say, you can't run 10 applications simultaneously but I run 3 and it's not *terrible* with 700-plus MB of RAM on my Pismo. This USENET discussion about relative performance and how it might be changed by adding RAM is enlightening. It's discussing a much newer computer, but many of the concepts apply to your PowerBook: <http://tinyurl.com/2c4lwv> Note the suggestion about looking up the Pageouts value of OS X using Terminal. This will tell you a lot about how/why it's running sluggishly. Adding more memory isn't a panacea. It can speed things up, but sometimes it won't. Good luck, SignatureDaveC me@bogusdomain.net This is an invalid return address Please reply in the news group |
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