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- 13" Macbook, Mac Mini & 12" PowerBook
Hello
My 12" PowerBook is about to die. In fact I will be very lucky if I can get it to start again after the way it was behaving last night. The hard drive was making the craziest sounds and everything seized up. I'm fairly well backed up so that is not a problem.
I was thinking about getting a Mac Mini as a replacement. My question is will the 1gb chip that I bought for my PB fit in there? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Mini's use laptop memory chips.
According to apple-history.com my 2003 powerbook uses PC2100 DDR SO-DIMM (Minimum RAM Speed: 266 MHz) and the new mac minis use PC2-5300 SDRAM (Minimum RAM Speed: 667 MHz). They sound different but I don't know anything about memory so could be wrong.
If not, do folks recommend getting memory upgrades whilst buying the Mac or from a third party afterwards.
I'm gonna miss my PowerBook I wish they would make 12" MacBook Pros.
Thanks for the advice.
My 12" PowerBook is about to die. In fact I will be very lucky if I can get it to start again after the way it was behaving last night. The hard drive was making the craziest sounds and everything seized up. I'm fairly well backed up so that is not a problem.
I was thinking about getting a Mac Mini as a replacement. My question is will the 1gb chip that I bought for my PB fit in there? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Mini's use laptop memory chips.
According to apple-history.com my 2003 powerbook uses PC2100 DDR SO-DIMM (Minimum RAM Speed: 266 MHz) and the new mac minis use PC2-5300 SDRAM (Minimum RAM Speed: 667 MHz). They sound different but I don't know anything about memory so could be wrong.
If not, do folks recommend getting memory upgrades whilst buying the Mac or from a third party afterwards.
I'm gonna miss my PowerBook I wish they would make 12" MacBook Pros.
Thanks for the advice.