I have an Ibook G4 with 256 mb of memory. Will upgrading it to 512 increase the speed of my Ibook?

To tell you the truth, more memory doesn’t make a comp faster – it just makes it better at doing more stuff at once. So if you just want to speed up games or internet browsing, it wont help. But if you want to run multiple programs or something like Photoshop, which does a LOT of things at the same time, then yes, memory would be great. My advice though would just be to upgrade the Laptop.

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I’m deciding whether to upgrade my old Ibook G4 or just sell it. It still runs great but I was just wondering if Snow Leopard is compatible with it?

Thanks.

Snow Leopard will only run on Intel chip Macs. Your Ibook is a PPC Chip Mac. Leopard is as high as you can go.

Snow Leopard doesn’t offer any new features over Leopard, just a revamped OS the runs better on the Intel machines.

Im giving my Ibook G4 to my neighbor and need everything gone he said he’ll do all the reinstalling. I heard about holding a big magnet to the hard drive does that realy work and what kind of damage does it do. if you know of any other simple ways please tell me and please explain how to do them because i am not very good with computer

A big Magnet damaged the hard drive and you will not be able to use it again,best way is to format it ,if you want to be safe format it few times,then reinstall new OS on it,some people go further and format it in windows format too like NTFS ,BUT believe me once or twice format makes all your hard drive to be clean ,even if you format it once take at least 100 hours and special software and also lots of money to retract anything from your hard drive…

So I have a used Ibook G4 but it is in really good condition, how much should I sell it for?

take a look at ebay prices on closed auctions, it will give you a good idea what to sell your Laptop for.

The computer is an Ibook G4 and a paper clip may be in the disc drive.

I got my wang stuck in my disc drive once and it took about 18 minutes to free it

This is my first mac and I dont know much about them, so I am hoping that I didnt mess up. Will the Ibook G4 support the new CS4? I need some help, Thanks.

Sorry to break the bad news but…

Adobe CS4 requires among other things a:
PowerPC® G5 or multicore Intel® processor
[and you have a G4 - so it will not run on your mac - end of story]

and even if you were able to install it – it would run really slow. CS4 are really intensive programs that require a lot of computing power.

A word of advice: if in the future you want to buy another computer, always make sure that the system specifications of the computer a better/greater than the system requirements of the software that you want to run on it.

i have a Ibook g4 and i dont know how to put adobe flash player and i need it to do everything. can you help?

Here – simply go on this link and download it. Install it manually and voila!

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Hope this helps

I have a Mac Ibook G4. Suddenly the key with number one and exclamation mark doesnt respond. Any suggestions?

Try flipping the key top off with a flat edge and check for crumbs or other debris under it. Key tops just push back on.

The G5 has an extra slot for a second hard disk and the Ibook G4 is just about full so i hope to put in a new and bigger one in. If you have any links to sites that may have specialist info that would be helpful.

Every chance that the answer will be yes but the best idea would be to find out exactly what hard drive you have in the G4 & what the G5 will accept.

A service manual will give you the G4 spec and, touch wood, the owners manual for the G5 will tell you what it will take.

HTH