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

[Mark M. Florida]

On 4/5/03 5:13 PM, "Daniel Beck" <danielbeck at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 07:10 AM, Juan M wrote:
> 
>> 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.'
> 
> In the case of the Pismo (which I have), the listed max is half of the
> true max. And I think it's for the reason you mentioned above. But some
> clever manufactures figured out how to make lower profile chips that
> could double the amount of RAM. So my Pismo has 1GB of RAM, despite
> Apple's listed 512MB.

It also has something to do with the way the RAM is put on the chip -- the
banks or whatever...

And the old LC IIs had a funky motherboard that only saw 10 MB of RAM no
matter how much was in there (12 MB was max though) -- but that hasn't been
the case with any machine since...

- Mark