640mb in ibook, is there a difference?
I just bought a new ibook 700 12 inch, the store was out of the 512mb modules so I have to wait until Friday. First impressions with 128mb, SLOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW. How can anyone work comfortably with this machine? My question is, does 512mb make a big difference, if not this is going back and I?m getting the new IBM ThinkPad X23. You guys have to see it to believe it, resizing the windows is molasses on a cold day, applications start slower the my Grandpa in the morning and the Java speed is the worst I?ve ever seen on any computer. This machine is just for surfing and writhing java scripts, nothing intensive, JUST TEXT stuff. I don?t think I need to buy a $2500 Powerbook to do that. Anybody else started with 128mb then went to 640mb, can you share your experience.
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An extra 512Mb will make you a very happy
person.
They should either sell them with 128(x1) or 256(x1) so that even if your machine doesn't have the most memory you can upgrade it without throwing out a perfectly good module.
The situation right now seems like the one with win95/98, way back when M$'s 'minimum requirements' often could bearly boot the machine. Ok, that's a little exaggerated, but you get the point. 256 is the real minimum OSX requirement, not 128. End rant.
128 is listed as the minimum on the box, but in reality, you'll want more.
Newbie here (1st post!). This is my first tentative step toward the Mac world (three Wintel PC and laptops at home with WinXP but 12" iBook combo drive to arrive this week!).
I want to add more RAM to the iBook as well but on Pricewatch, the 512MB @ $112 is almost triple the price of 256MB @ $42. You guys think that is worth it? I will mostly use this ibook for organizing music, photos, and surfing the web (no gaming).
Thanks!
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[ 07-02-2002: Message edited by: klinux ]</p>
<strong>Sorry, I should be more clear. My question should have been: Is addding the additional 512 MB RAM more cost effective (i.e. we all know it will perform better @ 640 MB) then adding the 256 MB RAM to the iBook 700Mhz?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Last week I upgraded my Pismo from 320 MB to 512 MB, and couldn't be happier. It wouldn't seem like such a big difference, but I have about 10x fewer pageouts now. And with a 4200 rpm hard drive, that translates into much better performance. I would spend the extra $70 on the 512 MB module.
Relic
I wonder if anyone makes 1GB DIMMS that will work in any of Apple's 'Books yet?
<strong>I spent the $200 on the memory taking my 700 14 in iBook to 640 and I see no difference.
My old old compaq 75mhz windows 95 with 32 meg of ram was faster at day in and day out business.
I went to compusa today to play around on some G4 machines and yes they are much faster but these G3's are well.... less than favorable.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Do you like to WINE a lot if your damn iBook is that slow then stop posting about it all you do is talk about how slow it is. You hear no one else crying about it do you? NO! Do us all a favor and don't post BS. I run my iBook with 384 megs with no problem and you say you notice no difference with 640 and it still seems slow may be your brain is just slow. Sorry for being rude but it gets a little old reading your pointless posts about how you think your Mac is so slow. I know people running 233mhz macs and don't cry about it a bit.
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[ 07-05-2002: Message edited by: BrianMacOS ]</p>