Increase RAM on eMac?

[graylocks]

i upgraded my eMac 700/640Mb to Tiger. i like the changes but performance seems a bit sluggish. would upgrading the RAM to 1024MB (about $50) give me a significant bump in speed? this computer is mostly used for web, internet radio, and word processing.

[Jimmypoo]

the ram would help. No doubt about that.

Does that machine go to 1.0 or 1.5GB?

Tiger might seem sluggish, but I hardly notice, for most things, any difference between the Pismo and the Mac mini (G3/400 and G4/1.42GHz).

The Pismo has had Tiger for over a year with just 512MB of RAM.

What kind of RAM does an emac use? PC133?

[C(-)ris]

PC133 for the eMac. 640 means you have 1x512 and 1x128. I'd pull that 128 and put in a 512. Well worth the $50 or so for the upgrade. I think I have a 512mb stick sitting around here somewhere...

[graylocks]

i checked over at lowendmac. this is a 1st gen so it can take 2 512 133s. the sluggishness is in web page drawing so its hard to know if it's the eMac or my internet signal at that particular moment.

[Forrest]

RAM isn't the cause for poor web browser performance. Do you have at least 5 GB of free space on your hard drive? If so, then I'd try a different web browser, such as Camino http://caminobrowser.org/

[decocritter]

Ram is expensive for the eMac. I need to upgrade.

Is this why my eMac is so slow?

DIMM0/J1600:

Size: 256 MB
Type: SDRAM
Speed: PC133U-333

DIMM1/J1601:

Size: 128 MB
Type: SDRAM
Speed: PC133U-333