[X4U] Upgrading an older iBook query

[Neil Laubenthal]

At 15:24 -0500  on 3/9/06, 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?
>
>I literally just went through a similar scenario with another 
>friend, upping the memory in her old HP Pavilion laptop, which 
>drastically improved the performance.
>
>For the iBook, I would recommend maxing out the memory (as much as 
>she can afford) and bringing the OS up-to-date.

Put in a 512 MB stick or RAM for about 75 or so . . .and upgrade to 
Tiger as it's much faster.

Based on the speed . . .this is about a 2 to 2-1/2 year old model.

RAM will make the siingle biggest difference . . .if it's a choice 
between RAM and Tiger have her get the RAM.



>Thanks,
>
>-Steve
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