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#1 2009-10-30 1:24 pm
Leopard or Tiger for iMac G4
A friend has a desk lamp g4 he hasn't used in a while. It has 10.2 in it. What should he upgrade to and how much ram does he need. I think it can only handle 1 gig? it has 256 in it now.
Thanks in advance
Tony
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#2 2009-10-30 3:23 pm
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Re: Leopard or Tiger for iMac G4
Check out the RAM here on this iMac page http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodel. … mp;cat=RAM
512 MB is "easy" to add to the user slot.
Due to limited RAM and other issues such as cost, I recommend OS 10.4 with 768 MB of RAM.
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#4 2009-10-30 5:31 pm
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Re: Leopard or Tiger for iMac G4
I will third everything Neffy said.
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#6 2009-10-31 2:14 pm
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Re: Leopard or Tiger for iMac G4
yup
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#7 2009-11-02 2:38 pm
Re: Leopard or Tiger for iMac G4
One more thing, I have some 512 ram from my iBook G4, does anyone know if that is the same as in his iMac?
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#8 2009-11-02 2:51 pm
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Re: Leopard or Tiger for iMac G4
wrong speed, wrong type and wrong number of pins.
So no
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#10 2009-11-02 4:00 pm
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Re: Leopard or Tiger for iMac G4
tony-h wrote:
and the sticks that came out of my G5 iMac and Intel iMac isn't right either?
Also correct.
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#11 2009-11-02 5:30 pm
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Re: Leopard or Tiger for iMac G4
tony-h wrote:
Thanks to everyone, I had the same thought. So 768 mb will handle 10.4 OK?
not 10.5, though.
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