Memory and Airport upgrade for iMac G4 1GHz
Hi
I am trying to help my brother upgrade an iMac G4 (bought used) with the following specifications:
The series that looks like a bowl upside down, with an arm holding a flat-screen LCD-monitor on top.
1 GHz PPC processor
256 MB memory 333MHz SDRAM
167 MHz system bus
Model ID: PowerMac 6.1 versjon 3.3
Darwin kernel from 2003
The monitor seems more 15-inch-ish than 17-inch.
Might get more info from system profiler if needed. Looking at the above specs, it looks like this must be the model apple has listed as "iMac (USB 2.0)" - using this guide:
How to identify iMac (Flat Panel) models
The only thing that doesn't look right is that this article iMac (USB 2.0) - Technical Specifications says it shipped with MacOS 10.3, while our machine has 10.2.8 installed. Could it be the first units shipped with 10.2, and later units shipped with 10.3 installed? Have we found the right machine? We need to know, because we are looking for an Airport card for it. Can we assume our model supports an Airport Extreme card?
Second question is the following: We have ordered some extra RAM for the machine, from MemoryTen. Their site says that this card...
M9655G/A, M9298G/A, KTA-IMAC400/1G, 1GB Apple PowerMac G5 PC3200 DDR400 DIMM
...is compatible with the factory memory slot. This card is listed as "1GB Apple PowerMac G5 PC3200 DDR400 DIMM", but the original card is PC2700 DDR333. Will it still be compatible?
Hi
I am trying to help my brother upgrade an iMac G4 (bought used) with the following specifications:
The series that looks like a bowl upside down, with an arm holding a flat-screen LCD-monitor on top.
1 GHz PPC processor
256 MB memory 333MHz SDRAM
167 MHz system bus
Model ID: PowerMac 6.1 versjon 3.3
Darwin kernel from 2003
The monitor seems more 15-inch-ish than 17-inch.
Might get more info from system profiler if needed. Looking at the above specs, it looks like this must be the model apple has listed as "iMac (USB 2.0)" - using this guide:
How to identify iMac (Flat Panel) models
The only thing that doesn't look right is that this article iMac (USB 2.0) - Technical Specifications says it shipped with MacOS 10.3, while our machine has 10.2.8 installed. Could it be the first units shipped with 10.2, and later units shipped with 10.3 installed? Have we found the right machine? We need to know, because we are looking for an Airport card for it. Can we assume our model supports an Airport Extreme card?
Second question is the following: We have ordered some extra RAM for the machine, from MemoryTen. Their site says that this card...
M9655G/A, M9298G/A, KTA-IMAC400/1G, 1GB Apple PowerMac G5 PC3200 DDR400 DIMM
...is compatible with the factory memory slot. This card is listed as "1GB Apple PowerMac G5 PC3200 DDR400 DIMM", but the original card is PC2700 DDR333. Will it still be compatible?