Hey, that's cool! That kinda takes care of one of the 12" shortcomings (compared to the 15" and 17", of course).
Sigh...I wish Apple would treat the 12" just like the other two (two removable RAM slots, DVI, L3 cache, etc.) because then you wouldn't have to resort to nonsense like this.
$500 for 1GB or RAM...is this good? I don't know.
Oh well, still good to know. That's bound to come down, too. Right? It won't always be $500.
Also, are there any sort of technical downsides or reasons NOT to do this? In other words, Apple's stated RAM max is 640MB, but is that only because - at the time - chips like this didn't exist?
Plopping one of these into a 12" PowerBook isn't going to do anything weird or result in some sort of warranty-voiding type of thing is it?
The 12" is capable of doing the 1152meg ram thing, but, like you said scates, at the time it wasn't an option. BUT there is a downside if the 12" is like the other powerbooks: at over 1 gig of ram, you can't hot swap the batteries, which is a big drawback if you're using the computer on the road (and OS X still takes AGES to boot up sometimes - it's my least favorite thing about the OS).
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Sigh...I wish Apple would treat the 12" just like the other two (two removable RAM slots, DVI, L3 cache, etc.) because then you wouldn't have to resort to nonsense like this.
$500 for 1GB or RAM...is this good? I don't know.
Oh well, still good to know. That's bound to come down, too. Right? It won't always be $500.
Also, are there any sort of technical downsides or reasons NOT to do this? In other words, Apple's stated RAM max is 640MB, but is that only because - at the time - chips like this didn't exist?
Plopping one of these into a 12" PowerBook isn't going to do anything weird or result in some sort of warranty-voiding type of thing is it?