[MacDV] Re: OT: 12" PowerBook and 1GHz 17" iMac owners need to see this

[Juan M]

Many times, the stated 'max' for RAM is based on what was being 
manufactured at the time the PowerBook came out. I know some early 
iMacs could actually have more RAM than the stated 'Max.'

Also, I think the state Max may also be the amount that Apple will 
technically support but the computer may actually be able to see more.

I also recall the good old LC pizza box Mac not being able to see 12mb 
of total RAM even though you had installed it, all it could see was 
10mb of total RAM. i forget but perhaps it had 4 on the motherboard and 
if you 'maxed' it out using two 4-mb chips it would not see the total 
of 12 installed but only 10.


so who knows?


what causes a maxing out of RAM - the ROM? the OS? or ??


Juan


On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 01:06  PM, BigScanner.com wrote:

> Dwayne - *this* might not mean it, but it's probably true.
> I can see 2GB RAM in Apples future - but think, in 5 years.
> What's the historic pattern for RAM ceiling upgrades? How many years 
> will it
> take before I can have a 10GB RAM in a 7" iLite Powerbook PDA?
>
> :)
> Terry
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> On 4/5/03 12:13 PM, "Dwayne Bradley" <dwayne_bradley at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if this means that the 17" and 15" PowerBooks will eventually
>> be able to have up to 2GB RAM?  What do you all think?
>>
>> Dwayne
>>
>
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