Hello
Just joined up but been using apple products from more years than I remember. Anyway my Dad was using my old old iMac G4 at his house solely for internet but its been playing up so bad that it will barely start up.
An IT friend at work had a look at it for me and said it was running so slow it needs a memory upgrade - its currently got
700 MHz PowerPC G4 processor
256MB
40GB hard disk
He also installed 'umbuntu' on it to solve the problem of it not running anything.
From what I can find online it has the option to upgrade from the "one factory-installed 168-pin DIMM and one open
user-accessible SO-DIMM slot" Is the SO-Dimm slot 168-pin aswell as Ive read it might be 144-pin.
Sorry for the long winded question but could really do with some advice as to whether this will help and if so is it the right one to be buying.
Many thanks.
David.
Just joined up but been using apple products from more years than I remember. Anyway my Dad was using my old old iMac G4 at his house solely for internet but its been playing up so bad that it will barely start up.
An IT friend at work had a look at it for me and said it was running so slow it needs a memory upgrade - its currently got
700 MHz PowerPC G4 processor
256MB
40GB hard disk
He also installed 'umbuntu' on it to solve the problem of it not running anything.
From what I can find online it has the option to upgrade from the "one factory-installed 168-pin DIMM and one open
user-accessible SO-DIMM slot" Is the SO-Dimm slot 168-pin aswell as Ive read it might be 144-pin.
Sorry for the long winded question but could really do with some advice as to whether this will help and if so is it the right one to be buying.
Many thanks.
David.