My New 15" PB
Just came home from the Apple Store Cambridgeside with my new toy. Picked up a 15" Powerbook, and a 20 gig iPod. I walked in with the full intention of getting the combo drive model, but as in most cases, my self control went out the window and I walked out with the Superdrive model. I was going to add an airport card anyway (school is mostly wireless) so that seemed just enough justification to splurge a little since it comes standard on the Superdrive model.
Anyway, my reason for posting (besides the little bit of gloating in me) is a question about RAM. I stuck with the stock 512, but was wondering if bumping it up to a full gig would make any kind of noticable difference in performance. If I do up the RAM, is this the kind of task that I could undertake myself? I've put lots of RAM in lots of desktop systems, but never a laptop. Scary for me to try it or not?
I'll be using music software quite a bit (can't wait to try out Garageband, it could make my life a lot easier) as well as the usual e-mail, Word, Web type stuff. Lots of recording, editing and burning is in my future.
Anyway, I'm already falling hard for my new Book as well as the iPod. I should have done this months ago.
Anyway, my reason for posting (besides the little bit of gloating in me) is a question about RAM. I stuck with the stock 512, but was wondering if bumping it up to a full gig would make any kind of noticable difference in performance. If I do up the RAM, is this the kind of task that I could undertake myself? I've put lots of RAM in lots of desktop systems, but never a laptop. Scary for me to try it or not?
I'll be using music software quite a bit (can't wait to try out Garageband, it could make my life a lot easier) as well as the usual e-mail, Word, Web type stuff. Lots of recording, editing and burning is in my future.
Anyway, I'm already falling hard for my new Book as well as the iPod. I should have done this months ago.
Comments
2) More RAM = Ability to launch more apps
3) PowerBook's Hard Drive is slower than desktop drive
4) More RAM = Less paging to Hard Drive = Fewer lags
Originally posted by trailmaster308
Ditto on everything Leonis said. Also, to answer your question about installing the RAM yourself, go for it. Its super easy. Should be some instructions that came w/ you PB for installing more memory. Don't be a wimp
What about the lower slot? Is that user-accessible?
Sh0e
Anyway, any use for these two 256 chips if I bump it on up? Any eBay value? Even getting a little something for them would be better than having them end up at the bottom of a drawer.
Oh, and I do feel the benefit going up to 1GB RAM.
Originally posted by Corkurk
Anyway, any use for these two 256 chips if I bump it on up? Any eBay value? Even getting a little something for them would be better than having them end up at the bottom of a drawer.
not too much value, really. probably could get a very few bucks, but it wasnt worth the ebay hassle so i just decided to give mine to a buddy who had an open slot in his new PB. truthfully, i didnt notice too big of a difference going from 512 to 768mb ram in the 1.25 PB15. btw, i got the extra ram from Crucial.