Actually No! A Little more ram never hurts in a Mac since it uses ram efficiently. But I have bad news! Beige G3 systems have crappy IDE, in fact it gets on my nerves! You should have a burner with Burn Proof, Or active link. Which enables the burner to stop and resume a burn. I have a 24X Nec drive and it works great but stops every once in awhile. But resumes nicely. You absolutely should have a drive with burn proof and the Mac software you use to burn your CD's should have the ability to use it, most drives today and I am sure the one you have, have burn proof. Use the latest toast and make sure it FULLY supports your drive. I have 320MB ram in my 300MHZ rev 3 Mac, and I did use the drive with only 256MB ram until recently, and I always have a few programs open when I burn, and well I use a lot of ram, and I still never have enough, burn proof solves the problem.
I hope I helped. > From: GDB-G3-OSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:53:18 -0400 > To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Do Mac's require more RAM? > > Okay, as per Bruce's suggestion, I purchased a LiteOn 52x CDRW drive > from OWC. It arrived today, I quickly installed the drive and began > testing the unit. First let me say that it is bootable and that is a > big plus. Next, using Discribe 5.0 I converted 20 MP3 songs to AIF > format for burning to a CD. Once this task was completed I decided to > do a test burn to see how fast I could write to the CD. Now I don't for > a moment expect my 266 Mhz G3 with 192 Mb of RAM to burn a CD at the max > speed, so I thought I would give 32x a try first. No go, made it to > track 2 before it errored out. Okay, set it down to 12x this time to > see what would happen. This time it made it to track 3 before it > errrored out. Okay, so I set it down to the lowest setting that > Discribe provides, (4x) and tried once more. Actually made it to track > 12 this time before it errored out. Obviously my paultry 192 Mb of RAM > is a problem. What doesn't make sense is that I can burn at 10x on my > PII-233 Mhz PC with only 128 Mb of RAM no problem. Do Mac's require > more RAM to do the same work as a PC? > > Just a message from Doug... > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
