What the iBook comes with

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Grand Master

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One more Q. I have selected 512 MB of ram, will this be 1 stick allowing for an upgrade. Or two 256 sticks?

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iBooks have 256MB soldered onboard, and have a single SODIMM slot, so yours will come with the slot filled. (unless Apple has changed them recently).

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It does come with a mini DVI to VGA adapter for free, all the other adapters must be bought separately (for instance the mini DVI to S-Video/Composite is NOT included)

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No, its a mini-VGA. The ibook does not have DVI-Capability :)

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the_snitch

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iBooks have 256MB soldered onboard, and have a single SODIMM slot, so yours will come with the slot filled. (unless Apple has changed them recently).

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Oh, and your wrong aswell.

The 256mb that ibooks come with is made from 128mb soldered onboard, and a 128mb card

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jeff_pony

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iBooks have 256MB soldered onboard, and have a single SODIMM slot, so yours will come with the slot filled. (unless Apple has changed them recently).

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That would make sense when compared to the ram limits. Slightly annoying though due to the cost of a single stick of 1 gig memory. If you have two slots you can get to a gigs worth of memory more cheaply. Plus at ?70 for an extra 256MB of ram are apple taking people for a ride?

EDIT: What I am doing now is leaving the memory as standard. Using that money to have a bigger hard disk and then buying 512 MB of ram from crucial at ?83.

BTW the new iBooks have 256 on board.

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Grand Master

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Oh, and your wrong aswell.

The 256mb that ibooks come with is made from 128mb soldered onboard, and a 128mb card

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ibooks come with 256mb built in and 1 free slot that can take up to 1 gig max.

i bought a 512mb from newegg when i got mine. apple rips you off.

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jamend

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1 GB SODIMM sticks aren't really that expensive... it's just a common misconception among Mac laptop users that Apple overcharges for RAM and that you should get Crucial instead. In reality, they both overcharge.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-155-111&depa=1

http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp...Hz%29&submit=Go

Grand Master

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I stand corrected, but you are wrong about the ram thing iBooks now come with 256MB ram soldered on the motherboard instead of the 128MB they used to have about 2 revisions back.  :p

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Hey, at least that's better than mine, it only has 64MB soldered onboard and one slot :( I'm thinking of picking up a logic board from a later model 600Mhz or 700Mhz iBook to replace the board in mine. That would give me more onboard RAM and a Radeon video card. I've seen them on eBay for less than $200. Then I could sell my logic board to recoup some of the money. I'd probably add a larger hard drive and a combo drive while I had it apart. As it is, I'm thinking of doing the bus speed hack on this one sometime soon (when I have the time).

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iBook G4s use PC2100, not PC2700. Would PC2700 with 333 MHz speed or any speed work fine with an iBook even if the "onboard RAM" is PC2100 with 233 MHz speed or something like that? :p Thanks.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-145-482&depa=0 - would that work in the current iBook G4s?

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