[G4] Re: Big DIMMs

[Nicolas Kinnan]

Thanks for the advice, so far.

I was wondering about the 1.5GB limit, as I had remembered reading 
somewhere that that was primarily an OS9 issue.  I know that allot of 
RAM limits in the past were based less on CPU restrictions and more on 
what the biggest chips were that could be used for testing prior to 
product release.

I suppose my dream right now, one of them anyway, is that some Apple 
person reads this list and figures a cool Christmas gift to those of us 
who can't afford a new computer right now would be a firmware update 
enabling 1GB DIMMS in the G4.

This would be especially nice as then, considering the aforementioned 
2GB limit, I could max out my RAM "something fierce" and also keep the 
DIMM slot that is closer than I would like to the CPU heatsink empty.

I'm still a little surprised that an even 1GB or RAM is no longer 
considered unusual now -- I was kind of hoping that we'd rest at 512 or 
768MB for a little while.  What happened to make things kind of shoot 
up past 512, anyway?  Is OSX really eating up so much memory in my 
machine?  Is there an easy way to check, like in the old OS9 days?

A.