My Pismo was an upgraded Daystar version to G4/550 and I went back to them for the purchase since I had had good service before (as you say where you buy is important) and since this was new to me I wanted some assistance if needed. I do think I paid a little too much from them--OWC would probably have been better.
The question-- they recommended that I buy pc133-- they said it would be a little faster??? Any comments about this. Interestingly they also recommended Viking or Edge, but when I got their sticks for a premium price--they had no indication of manufacturer. I think I was taken in--but the Pismo works great.
John in Tucson On Jan 23, 2004, at 9:51 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote:
Howdy!At 19:01 -0900 1/23/2004, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote:
I currently have 128mb of ram installed on my Pismo and it's suffering slightly with multiple applications running in OSX 10.2.8.
According to the manual the max limit is 512mb but I've heard that some of you out there have increased this to 1Gb. If so, which chips did you use and did you have any problems arising as a result of this, and what were they?
I have upgraded 3 pismos to 1gig and have had no problems Mine came from Data Systems Memory
I do not work for these guys just had very positive purchase results.www.datamem.com
TThe chip you need is the 512 meg, 144 pin PC 100 32x64 CL 2 SD RAM T
The performance from adding 1- 512 with your 128 will be noticeable. The prices seem to be edging up a little, if you can swing 2- 512s I would go for it. There are other places for RAM OWC comes to mind, maybe small dog computer. These are stable folks who will stand behind the ram. You can also check Ramseeker.com to compare prices. Remember lower is not always better. I have read more problems related to poor ram cause problems with 10.2 and now 10.3 so while a stick of ram is a stick of ram, who you buy it from is important if you get a bad stick.
If I upgraded to 512mb should I buy 2x256mb chips or 1x512mb? Does it make any difference performance wise?.
Again if all you swing at this time is 1- 512 go that way, you will see a real difference and keep you 128 stick. If you put in 2X256, your throwing out your 128 stick so to upgrade to 1 GIG you will have to sell both 2X256 and the 128.....Maxing it out will make it useful for longer period of time. Each new program seems to eat ram just because its there, they should be writing better programs instead of pigging out on ram..
I would put the max in I could afford. The amount of RAM you have is what you have, but you will be able to open more programs faster with more ram. With 2-512s your virtual memory will be turned off and the book will really zing.
The next step would be to upgrade the hard drive to a bigger and faster speed.. The good news you could sell your old one or put it a fire wire box $50.00 bucks OWC and use it for backups
Finally if anyone has some spare pc100 chips they no longer require please drop me a line!
Wish I could help you
Geoff
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