Yeah, I'm not buyin' it. You need 1GB for Tiger and 2GB for Leopard if you want to do anything useful with them.
-- Jarett T. DeAngelis, MS Sr. IT Support Engineer Distributed Support Services, College of Arts and Letters Office of Information Technology 938 Flanner Hall University of Notre Dame On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:49 PM, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At 1:23 PM -0600 9/9/2009, WAYNE H FOWLER wrote: >> iMac G4 1.25 17" FP with 1 gig of ram. I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 >> now. >> >> When I thought of upgrading to Leopard, I read that it likes to see >> at least 2 gigs of ram to run smoothly. Does anyone have any >> experience with running Leopard with this configuration? > > Leopard runs just fine on anything over 512 MB. Additional memory > needs depend on the mix of applications you like to run. > > How much memory do you need? A lot of people blindly recommend 1 or > 2 or 10 or 20 GB. That's the equivalent of the car salesman trying > to get you to buy a full size bus when all you need is a two seater > or SUV. If you don't USE the memory, then buying extra is > useless!!!!!! Load up your Mac and run for a while with your normal > app mix. Then actually take a look at what you're using with > Activity Monitor. If *BOTH* the "free" and "inactive" pools are tiny > - both consistantly less than 8 to 10 MB, *AND* the Page Out rate is > going nutz, then you MAY need more memory. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
