14 Jun
2004
14 Jun
'04
9:15 a.m.
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.
-chris
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