[X Newbies] RAM need for X

[Randy B. Singer]

Anne Keller-Smith said:

>So ... to make a short story long, why won't the laptop run Jaguar
>just fine on 320MB RAM? Because it's a G3 compared to the Tower
>which is a G4?

It should run OS X just fine with 320MB of RAM.

>Maybe the kernel panics on the Tower were caused by insufficient
>RAM to run X in the first place?

Unlikely.  Kernel panics are usually caused by bad RAM, or some sort of a 
hardware incompatibility.   Not having enough RAM will just cause OS X to 
run more slowly.


Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

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