<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">You can put a 512 meg dimm in it. I put one in my Tangerine:<br><br>Hardware Overview:<br><br> Machine Model: iBook<br> CPU Type: PowerPC 750 (83.0)<br> Number Of CPUs: 1<br> CPU Speed: 300 MHz<br> L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB<br> Memory: 544 MB<br> Bus Speed: 67 MHz<br> Boot ROM Version: 3.1.2f4<br><br>I'm running 10.3 and it's not what I'd call fast, but it's acceptable for light surfing, email, instant messaging, etc. You couldn't really expect much more from a Clamshell. I would think if anything, 10.4 might be actually be a little faster with the maximum memory installed. Free software is much easier to find for 10.4 as well. <br><br>Eric<br><br>--- On
<b>Fri, 2/13/09, Tom R. no spam <i><tr5374@csc.albany.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Tom R. no spam <tr5374@csc.albany.edu><br>Subject: Re: [iBook] 10.3.9 or 10.4.11 on 466 MHz iBook?<br>To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers." <ibook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com><br>Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 4:52 PM<br><br><pre>To an iBook fan, that's an iconic unit, the last, best<br>clamshell iBook. (I would be happy to have one, just to<br>play with it sometimes.) For speed, it needs maximum RAM,<br>which is probably the 320MB (64 + 256) you have (though<br>search for info, it may be that after some firmware upgrade<br>you could have 64 + 512??). The harddrive is rather small,<br>and since the system bus is only 66MHz it's never going to be<br>very fast. There used to be plenty of reports of people<br>happily running 10.3.9 on that
kind of iBook, but 10.4 is<br>probably too much of a strain for it. You can get a 10.3.9<br>install down to about 2GB disk space used.<br><br>Good luck!<br><br>On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Josh wrote:<br> . . .<br>> with. I got a 466 SE with 320MB RAM and the standard 10GB HD. It<br>> currently has 10.4.11 on it, and it seems a bit too sluggish. I don't<br>> expect a speed demon, but am amazed at how long it takes to open Finder<br>> windows or how unresponsive it is sometimes. I do have 10.3 install CDs,<br>> and I'm tempted to downgrade to 10.3.9. What are your thoughts on<br>this?<br>> Is there anything in 10.4 that I'd be really missing? Will I gain a<br>> little speed with 10.3?<br>_______________________________________________<br>iBook mailing list<br>iBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com<br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>