[X4U] Upgrading an older iBook query

alexandre mac.k at a2k.ch
Thu Mar 9 13:23:04 PST 2006


On Mar 9, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Fabian Fang wrote:

> On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine wants to know what it would take to update her  
>> old iBook.
>>
>> I instructed her to provide me with the System Profile information  
>> and here are the results:
>>
>> She's currently running OS X 10.2.8 with only 128 MB of ram.  It's  
>> a 900 MHz machine with 512K L2 cache.  The machine model is  
>> version 2.3.   Can anyone tell me how old or exactly what year  
>> this model is?  Alternatively, does anyone know the link to a  
>> website that will provide this info?
>
> As an apparent Mac guru among your friends, you may wish to become  
> familiar with the following resource:
> <http://www.everymac.com/>
>

…or download "mactracker" from versiontracker… but the ibook  
definitely needs a ram upgrade whatever flavour of mac os 10 she's  
running.

but from what i can tell, it's a 900mhz g3 ibook from late (august)  
2003. max ram is 640mb (original 128 + 512) if i'm not mistaken.

regards

alexandre
:: 17" 1.5ghz powerbook / 1.5gb / 100gb at 7200 / X.4.5 ::





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