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[Lazy Lankan]

ok so here r the specs for a laptop I'll be getting as part of my college fees for graphic design nxt yr rite - but I can get additional stuff if I want, so what could I do to upgrade this? (like make it faster, betta graphics - or whateva):

- Apple iBook 14.1”(CD/DVD reader)
- 1.33GHz G4 Processor (Super Drive)
- Mac OS X Panther Installed
- 512K 1.2 Cache
- 640MB SDRAM
- 60GB Hard Drive
- Fast Ethernet (10/100MBps)
- 56K Internal Fax/Modem & Airport Extreme Card
- AGP 2X 16MB Radeon Graphics Support for up to 1024-by-768-pixels
- Five-hour Lithium-Ion battery (including charger)
• Photoshop • Acrobat Distiller• Illustrator • GoLive• InDesign

lol I don't know much bout this stuff!

 

[AsyLum]

RAM and Graphics card as well as your CPU, although Apples are decidedly better at handling adobe products than PCs, are the determining factors when using graphics products.

The RAM could be upgraded, and the graphics card is a tad outdated, but not bad i guess.

 

[Lazy Lankan]

yeah I figured that the RAM can b updated but I'm confused ... coz I thought that RAM only came in like [256MB, 512MB, 1GIG] sizes ... y is this one '640MB SDRAM'. what does the SD mean?

and what r the latest graphic cards?!

 

[jm1234567890]

yeah I figured that the RAM can b updated but I'm confused ... coz I thought that RAM only came in like [256MB, 512MB, 1GIG] sizes ... y is this one '640MB SDRAM'. what does the SD mean?

and what r the latest graphic cards?!

640 is 512+128 which is a waste of a ram slot. If your going to be using photoshop, bump it up to 1024 megs.

"SD" is just the type of RAM.

any newer graphics is fine. I think the ibooks have Radeon9550's these days.

and also consider upgrading to OSX10.4 tiger.