Re: Ram upgrade enquiry on the Pismo
Geoff-- An excellent response. I recently followed other listers suggestions and did the upgrade to 2 - 512s and all went well (I currently have the Viking 256 on eBay) but I have another question. 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! 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? At 19:01 -0900 1/23/2004, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: 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 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Ram upgrade enquiry on the Pismo
At 8:51 -0700 1/24/2004, John Collins wrote: 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. On the PC 133 I am sticking my neck out here a bit because you have the G4 550 upgrade, but I do not think you will get a speed bump out of it. It may work in the Pismo just fine but I have never seen it posted or read that PC 133 will give you more horsepower in the stock Pismo then the PC100. jmo Viking and Edge or both named brands and the sticks I have seen the Viking sticker is on there. I have not come across and Edge brand stick. So they may have whacked you a bit on price and played a bit loose with the name. However, you did buy all these upgrades from them, so the real advantage is if anything goes wrong they can not come back and say your no name brand ram messed up the G4 upgrade. So if you paid a bit more, I think you bought yourself some insurance for that G 4 upgrade. If you can go to the link below and give a report of how things went with the G4 upgrade, it will help others make a choice. Post the PC 133 question, and put the ram situation in there too, you will get better answers then I can give and if indeed the ram was a bait and switch these reports will help stop this practice, if indeed it was a switcheroo on the ram. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ So John sit back and enjoy the pismo. Mine have been great, a litle problem with Apple Care on one but Apple is going to really have to work and come out with a speed demon to get my pismo away and buy a new one. I think it's there best lap top. Then who cares what I think Be well Geoff -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Ram upgrade enquiry on the Pismo
At the least put in 1 512mb...If you can afford it go straight to 1gb...I did that last year when ram was real cheap and never regretted it..Also upgraded my imac se 400 and am running 10.3.2 on both...No problems ram-wise...Got the ram from OWC..There was a problem with one of the pismo chips when I got it but OWC replaced it immediately.. Regards, MIke K Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 23/01/04 00:21, simon goslin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy! 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? If I upgraded to 512mb should I buy 2x256mb chips or 1x512mb? Does it make any difference performance wise? Finally if anyone has some spare pc100 chips they no longer require please drop me a line! If you think you might upgrade to 1 GB at some point, then it make more sense to buy the 512MB chip. I know that there are people on this list that have their Pismo maxed out at 1GB. Mine is at 512MB with 2x256MB. I'm pretty happy with the performance I get... -Laurent. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Ram upgrade enquiry on the Pismo
Howdy! 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? At 19:01 -0900 1/23/2004, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: 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 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Ram upgrade enquiry on the Pismo
on 23/01/04 00:21, simon goslin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy! 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? If I upgraded to 512mb should I buy 2x256mb chips or 1x512mb? Does it make any difference performance wise? Finally if anyone has some spare pc100 chips they no longer require please drop me a line! If you think you might upgrade to 1 GB at some point, then it make more sense to buy the 512MB chip. I know that there are people on this list that have their Pismo maxed out at 1GB. Mine is at 512MB with 2x256MB. I'm pretty happy with the performance I get... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bug-compatible adj.: [common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as apath separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Ram upgrade enquiry on the Pismo
I have one Pismo running at 1MB (2 512) and one at 512 (2 256) and the one running at 1MB seems much snapper in both OS 9 and OSX. Tom on 1/22/04 23:21, simon goslin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy! 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? If I upgraded to 512mb should I buy 2x256mb chips or 1x512mb? Does it make any difference performance wise? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
