RAM upgrade

ibook G4

[humpingdan]

ive currently got a ibook g4 with 256 ram, i know 128mb is on borad, its it worth me spending the £80 or so to slap a 512mb stick inside my ibook?

[whoisgregg]

If you like to have more than a few RAM intensive apps open, then I would recommend having more RAM. :)

If I want to have every Macromedia app open and switch between them, I would want the max amount of RAM my laptop can accept. However, if all I ever have open is BBEdit and iTunes, I wouldn't see the point in upgrading RAM -- 128 is sufficient.

If you open Activity Monitor and switch to the "System Memory" tab at the bottom, you can look at the "Page ins/outs" numbers to determine how much of your RAM you are utilizing. If you have a lot of page outs you would probably benefit from more RAM. :)