Macs: Billions and Billions sold

From: Seth Lewin <sml49_at_comcast.net>
Date: Mon Jun 14 20:49:51 2004

Chris wrote on 6/14:
>
>> This is a
>> perfectly useful machine - has 192 mb RAM - I figure I'll install OS 10.3.4
>> on it and use it to write and to cruise the web.
>
> OS X will perform like poop with only 192 MB of ram. Doable, but you will
> be MUCH MUCH happier going beyond 256 MB.
>
> The catch with the Rev A boards is, they don't "officially" support 256
> MB SO-DIMS. 128's are the largest they are supposed to handle. However,
> as long as you get 8x64 chips (as opposed to the newer 8x32), they seem
> to work fine. Also, watch out when you buy RAM, anything that goes in the
> lower RAM slot must be Low Profile SO-DIMMs. Larger ones won't fit. And
> also, some of the ram slots have metal retaining clips, those have been
> known to touch the pins on the ram chips keeping them from being seen. If
> you have one with metal clips, just tape off the edge of the ram chip to
> keep the clips from shorting them.

I'm sure you're right; I have another iMac (a 333 mhz one) with 256 running
10.3.4 and it's acceptably fast - not hot stuff but more than good enough
for what I need - running iTunes at work as well as running whatever other
odd apps I feel like that our corporate MIS won't allow to be installed on
company hardware. I'll see how this one feels before I shell out for a RAM
module. Whoever owned this machine before put the 128 mb module in the lower
slot with the upper one still containing 64 mb. It's a Rev B board in this
one - it's got a Rage Pro chip - not the board that belongs in this case
(tangerine) but it will do. I have a complete set of Bondi plastics from
another (dead) Rev B and even have the IR module. Theoretically I could
recreate the machine this board belongs in, but what the heck - I like this
color...and don't need the IR.
Received on Mon Jun 14 2004 - 20:49:51 BST