512MB? Bah!
[Cross posted to
I know this rant will probably get me flamed for being somewhat off topic, but hopefully some folks will find it useful:
I suppose I should have know this and planned accordingly, but I didn’t and now I’m suffering the consequences.
See, I normally have 1.5GB in this machine, but when running the Apple Hardware Test the other day in order to determine if my Airport Extreme card was bad, one of my 512MB DIMMs tested bad. No problem, it’s a Crucial part, so it’s got a lifetime warranty. Well, I pulled the RAM to ship it back to Crucial, and now this machine is borderline unusable. I cannot wait for the RAM too get back here… Hell, maybe I’ll order another GB in the mean time, just so I can have something usable!
(Note: I could not do a cross ship as I purchased the RAM through a vendor. Crucial still handles the warranty. The machine is a dual 2.0Ghz PowerMac G5, and I installed the extra RAM after unboxing before it was ever powered on, so I hadn’t ever realized low memory would be this painful.)
Hmm, I have 512 MB and my machine is pretty usable. I would like to double that, though.