Re: [microsound] fc4 and ibookg4 (memory size)

[seedling@xxxxxxxxxx]

> as far as i know (and i'm pretty sure) all ibooks can only have 640 mb ram
> > max. cheers, ralph.
> 
> no, that's not true. check out apple.com. ibook g4s are expandable up to 
> 1.256 GB DDR266 SDRAM.


perhaps that's the new model.  the old ibook g4s (including one i bought about a year 
ago) has a maximum of 640mb.

you may wish to consider a powerbook for your video editing.  i know they are more 
expensive, but unfortunately they have two crucial features which ibooks do not.  the 
first is that their screen area is variable.  that means that when you connect an 
external monitor/projector, the powerbook will output video to fit the screen you are 
working with, where an ibook will only scale the display (so if the screen is say 
600x800 on the laptop, but you plug into a bigger one, you will still only get 600x800 
resolution).  the other thing is that powerbooks will let you use an external monitor, 
but you can use both at once, as a kind of super big display (which is really useful for 
editing stuff where you have lots of tool windows etc)... ibooks will only let external 
monitors mirror the laptop display.  both features seem useful for video editing.

good luck!


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