Andy.....I probably cant help much, but I was in the same situation....Im an artist and I use photoshop and other and macromedia software....the newer versions wouldnt run unless I upgraded my ram. I am happy that I did and I can now use Photoshop CS2. It uses more processing power than most powerpoint files. I dont know how expensive it is going to be for you, but if it isnt about the money....it will make a big difference. live in korea, so it cost me about 100 bucks plus labor to upgrade my Powerbook which is the same as yours. Even if it was a bit more expensive(which im sure it might be in america)...it would be totally worth it. One problem is that I still cant use the latest OS....even with the upgrade.<div>
<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>good luck,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Mykian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Andrew Knight <<a href="mailto:andrew.knighgoot@ncl.ac.uk">andrew.knighgoot@ncl.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi<br>
I currently have an old Powerbook G4 VGA 15' with a 667 MHz PowerPC G4 processor with 512MB SDRAM running OSX <a href="http://10.4.1." target="_blank">10.4.1.</a><br>
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It is getting frustratingly slow with large powerpoint and word documents. I have tried looking for extra RAM (I think it can handle a max. of 1Gb) but the prices seem really expensive. Apple cannot supply memory for this machine any more. Anyone got any any ideas where I can get cheap extra RAM.<br>
Will it actually make much of a difference anyway?<br>
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Andy<br>
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