On Mar 9, 2006, at 4:23 PM, alexandre wrote: > 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. Thanks Alexander. I did seek out lowendmac.com and discovered it was, in fact, a 2003 iBook. Kinda bummed out that it only maxes out at 640MB. Will this, plus Tiger, be sufficient to run Photoshop in this configuration? I don't think she can afford a new computer at this point in time. -Steve, still happily running my fourth powerbook (15" 1.5GHz 1GB) in 6 years, starting with the original 500MHz TiBook.