With the cheap cost of 1GB RAM modules, I'd buy one and install it. It's
supposed to be fairly easy on the recent iMacs. I have 1.5 GB RAM in my G4
Sawtooth and will be upgrading the video RAM card soon.
--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Amanda Ward <amanda.w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Amanda Ward <amanda.w...@comcast.net>
> Subject: New Mac
> To: imaclist@googlegroups.com
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 5:20 PM
> Hi All,
>
> I finally broke down and bought a new Mac. Okay... all the
> Macs I've
> bought have been new =to me=, but this one is like really
> new... I'm
> owner number one.
>
> It's the iMac 20" 2.4GHz model. I =really= want
> the 24" 3.06 GHz, but
> do I really NEED it. No prolly not.
> I'm a little amazed at the performance increase over my
> G4/1.6GHz.
> Gregory wasn't a slouch, but Irving (the iMac) just
> screams!
>
> He has 1GB ram... would increasing to 2GB show a
> significant
> performance boost? I don't do a lot of heavy
> graphics/video/audio
> work... mostly watching movies while working on an
> occasional
> spreadsheet.
>
> Lastly... can an Intel Mac boot Tiger... and do it from an
> external
> Firewire drive? I ask because I have a few apps that
> aren't upgraded
> for Leopard. On the G4 running 10.5 , I could boot from the
> external
> drive with 10.4 and run them.
>
> Thanks for any advice....
>
> Amanda
>
>
>
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