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Title: programs keep quiting on me. time to upgrade my 256mb memory?
Post by: mikesalvo on January 20, 2008, 01:09:06 AM

Programs like Audacity and imovie keep quiting on me during work. TOTAL pain in the ass, and waste of precious. I assume its because I have yet to uograde my iBook's RAM to beyind 256. Am I right??? If so, can anyone suggest a cheap, easy self-install way to upgrade. if I remembe correctly, the iBook has 2 ports each capable of holding 512.any help would be much appreciated.

Title: Re: programs keep quiting on me. time to upgrade my 256mb memory?
Post by: Roving Sign on January 20, 2008, 01:16:49 AM

Quote from: mikesalvo on January 20, 2008, 01:09:06 AM

Programs like Audacity and imovie keep quiting on me during work. TOTAL pain in the ass, and waste of precious. I assume its because I have yet to uograde my iBook's RAM to beyind 256. Am I right??? If so, can anyone suggest a cheap, easy self-install way to upgrade. if I remembe correctly, the iBook has 2 ports each capable of holding 512.any help would be much appreciated.

(Sorry not ibook specific info - so YMMV)

For Audacity - do you have enough space in the "temp" file? Audacity is generally more picky about disc space than RAM - Generally at least twice the project size.

Audacity runs ok on my XP Laptop with 256 - not sure I'd want to process really big files as it would be kinda slow...but it seems to work.

More RAM seems to make processing go faster...not sure it adds any stability...

Title: Re: programs keep quiting on me. time to upgrade my 256mb memory?
Post by: sunjan on January 20, 2008, 04:42:18 PM

Quote from: mikesalvo on January 20, 2008, 01:09:06 AM

Programs like Audacity and imovie keep quiting on me during work. TOTAL pain in the ass, and waste of precious. I assume its because I have yet to uograde my iBook's RAM to beyind 256. Am I right??? If so, can anyone suggest a cheap, easy self-install way to upgrade. if I remembe correctly, the iBook has 2 ports each capable of holding 512.any help would be much appreciated.

Yeah, RAM is so cheap these days, 256MB is way too little to sustain working with sound and video efficiently.
Check out these overviews to see which type of RAM you need to get:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302333
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14870

Once you've identified and bought the RAM, here's a guide how to install it yourself:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=95147

(I used to be a translator for Apple, so I'm pretty familiar with all these kbase documents...)

/Jan

Title: Re: programs keep quiting on me. time to upgrade my 256mb memory?
Post by: mikesalvo on January 20, 2008, 07:50:00 PM

thanks jan.PM sent for furthur info. you rock! +t