Does upgrading your ram to 2GB really make a difference?

okay, so the obvious answer to the question is yes.
but when i mentioned i was thinking of doing this upgrade to a close friend (who did ICT A level) he seemed a little skeptical, and said that there are many other factors involved.
im currently on 768MB of RAM, and i run logic pretty much all the time. but recently, while my sounds are getting a little more complex, the system performance bar is reaching the top (it goes yellow rather than orange)
so to put my question more accurately...
will i see a difference with 2GB of ram within logic ?
and what else can i do to keep that system performance bar down (hard ware wise)

Increasing RAM will always be of benefit.
Another issue maybe how much disk space you have left on your hard drive?
That version eMac shipped with either a 40 or 80 GB drive. If there is 15% or less left on the drive, this maybe an additional reason why Logic is working harder.
Also, if you haven't done any disk maintenance in a while, like using Tech Tool Pro/Disk Warrior to clean up disk directories and defragment your hard disk, then that would tend to make Logic work harder because it has to constantly, in real time, find all of the audio data bits scattered all over your hard drive. Defragmenting a hard drive would put data that should be contiguous ( located together on the drive as one continuous data stream) back together.
You need a lots of free disk space when working with large audio/video files.
Purchasing a larger external Fire Wire drive would be a benefit.
I use Logic Express 8 on a 1.25 Ghz G4 MDD with 2 GB of RAM.
I do all of my recording to a external FW drive with plenty of free space.
Works fairly well on a 6+ year old Power PC Mac. Haven't had too many issues or dropouts.
This version of Logic on my Mac is not completely trouble-free, but performs well most of the times I have done lots of audio tracks and end up with, somewhat, large audio files.
My issues are always with adding effects after recording audio as these are very processor intensive and need not only a really fast CPU, but lots O' RAM, too!
I end up using many of the effects processes very sparingly and/or only on recorded tracks I feel really need to have them. Can't use as many effects or on too many tracks as this has given playback some hiccups and issues.
It's an issue I can live with until I can, finally, afford a speedier Mac. That's not in the near future for me, though.
I absolutely love Logic! Great Apple audio program!

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