[P1] Trading Memory Between iBooks

Joe Sporleder joe at beloit-kansas.com
Thu Aug 7 12:45:40 PDT 2003


Generally speaking, the newer memory designed for the faster bus will 
throttle back to the slower speed of the older systems. I.E., PC133 
memory should work in PC100 and PC66 systems, but PC66 memory will not 
work in a machine that requires PC100 memory or faster.

Joe

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 12:33  PM, Joe Jones wrote:

> The clamshells are also interchangeable with the white iBooks.
>
> Th clamshells and early white ibooks (500Mhz) use 66Mhz memory, the 
> later white iBooks (600 onwards) use pc100/pc133. You can interchange 
> 100 and 133 without any problems, and 100/133 memory should work fine 
> in pc66 systems. I don't know if pc66 memory will work in a pc100/133 
> system though.
>
> Joe



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