[G4] RAM Advisory

[CJ Scaminaci]

Yes 10.2.8 is a major memory hog. If you go up to 512MB of RAM you will 
notice a HUGE increase in performance. Most of my machines I prefer to 
use 768MB for MacOS X so I have memory to play with. But 512 is a very 
safe number.

CJ
On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 04:33 PM, lavode at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> OK, I know that more RAM is good.  However, I also know that there is 
> a point of diminishing returns.  I have 600+ mb in my PowerMac 7300 
> running OS 8.6, and it could just as well have 400 mb and it would 
> still work just as well.
>
> I also have a Yikes with 300mb RAM running 10.2.8.  The question is, 
> will I get a noticeable increase in performance by adding more RAM?  
> Not knowing how much of a memory hog X is, I don't want to add RAM 
> when it won't do me much good.  I don't render, and don't have a lot 
> of memory intensive applications.
>
> TIA,
> Lavode
>
>
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