Turbo Charge your PowerBook G4

[ifingers]

My PowerBook G4 17inch 1.5GHZ 1GB RAM can sometimes slow to a crawl. Especially running iPhoto and Photoshop at the same time. I have been clearing my system drive of all my porn, ooops i mean redundant data and that helped a little bit. Still very frustrating though... So I had a look at upgrading my memory. Memory for the PB G4 seems quite reasonably priced now, so I bought two 1GB modules, from crucial uk and now Kundun flies. OK it may not be pumping out as much data as a 16GB loaded G5 Quad, but it has made a <em>big</em> difference to my machine.

<img src="http://www.macidol.com/assets/images/about-this-mac.jpg" width="308" height="380" alt="PowerBook G4 memory" title="Fully loaded PowerBook G4" />

So if like me your PowerBook is slower than a Barry Manilow gig, pump it full of RAM and you too can be speedy gonzales...

Anybody wanna buy a 512MB stick for a PB G4? I have two for sale. I will accept food vouchers, sexual favours and guitar strings as payment. lol

Read more about my <a href="http://www.ipresents.co.uk/tech/2005/10/jammin-g4-till-i-can-afford-g5-quad.html">adventures in memory</a>

As soon as I get a chance I'll see if i notice any improvement in GarageBand and see how Logic Pro runs - when it <em>finally</em> turns up... bloody slow ebayers...

[kilroydegeek]

384Mb (256 + 128) I've thought of replacing the 128 with a 256 for a total of 512 but I don't need a new keyring at the mo' (it was only 6 years ago that 32Mb seemed like overkill to me! )

[ifingers]

(it was only 6 years ago that 32Mb seemed like overkill to me! )

I hear ya! I used to <em>dream</em> about having 1GB of RAM - I am still shocked by the new G5's 16GB capacity...

[clanger]

Its a good reminder Rich. My dual g4 has 1.25 gb and an empty slot that could do with another 512mb SDRAM chip. At £70 (www.crucial.com) its maybe a little too much to fork out at the moment..but yes well worth the investment.

[cStu]

Both my iBook and my iMac are max'd (768 MB) - this was in the days when you could max the RAM for less than the price of the computer