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

[Mark M. Florida]

If you regularly have all of the mentioned apps opened at the same time, 
2GB of RAM will help prevent the system from thrashing the hard drive 
when it has to do a virtual memory swap.  So in that sense it will make 
going between apps faster.  But encoding video, processing photos, etc. 
probably won't speed up much.

Hope that helps?

- Mark

Timothy Luoma wrote:
> 
> 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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