[MacDV] Will 2gb of RAM vs 1gb make much of a difference on G4?

[Brett Conlon]

I believe you'll get your money's worth in upgrading to 2GB RAM.

As a big Photoshop user I have performed tests that show increasing RAM 
dramatically increases performance when working with large files.

In your case it will assist greatly when you have many applications open 
at the same time. Working with heavier video editing apps will feel the 
extra RAM greater than the iApps tho.

Cheers,

Coj



Timothy Luoma <lists at tntluoma.com>


I have a 1.5GHz G4 Powerbook with 1gb of RAM.

I'm spending a lot of time with EyeTV, Toast, iMovie, iDVD, and 
iPhoto, and have been thinking about upgrading to 2Gb of RAM.  This 
would be a big move as it would mean I'd have 2x512MB of RAM that 
would be sitting around (and would probably need to keep at least the 
one original 512 from Apple, as AppleCare wants to remove all 3rd 
party RAM if there is ANY sort of a problem).

I was talking about this with a friend who wondered if it would 
really make a difference.  He figured that the real bottleneck was 
the CPU.

I figured this was the best group to ask... assuming any of you have 
any non-dual-G5 experience (which just isn't in the budget).

Anyone have any benchmarks or experience with this?

TjL
 
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