I put more memory in to my 700 MHz iBook right after I got it and immediately got kernal panics in X, though it would boot in 9 just fine. X is (was) more sensitive to marginal quality memory than 9, even on the same hardware. Paul On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 01:44 PM, Tom R. no spam wrote: > I've read that Macs can be sensitive to memory which doesn't > fully meet Apple spec, and have in the past on either this or > the tiBook list seen lots of discussion involving this. I > maxed my 700MHz iBook as soon as I got it, but was careful to > get good memory from a reputable source, paying a little more > to do so, and have never had any problem.