Mark Philip said: >If I was to upgrade the RAM to 512MB or higher, will there be a >significant difference in performance? Yes. > Or am I better off selling off >the Pismo and perhaps getting an iBook G4 later on? That depends on your actual needs. A 400Mhz G3 will always be a 400Mhz G3. On the other hand I find the iBook G4s to not live up to the expected speed, probably due to that they, earlier at least, came with too little on CPU cache. I don't think I'll ever get a machine with less than 1MB cache. Obviously, though all the iBook G4s are most likely faster on everything than your Pismo.
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