IBook G4 UK RAM

I have just installed in 10.5.1 and my system is running a little slow. I have a total of 768MB RAM but am thinking that I really need to upgrade to a 1GB stick.
The 512MB stick that I installed was really cheap and I suspect is one reason why my system is slow. Can anyone recommend a quality RAM brand that I can purchase in the UK?
I have 28GB of space left on a HDD of 60GB. I have run all the maintenance scripts, cleaned cache's and verified and repaired the HDD to see if that helps with the speed.
My HDD constantly whirs away when using big apps like Photoshop, so I suspect that the RAM is filling up pretty quickly and the system is then using swap files on the HDD - maybe?

Hi,
You can use either PC2100 or PC2700 200-pin SODIMM RAM. 1GB will work in it. The reason Apple only supports 512MB is 1GB sticks weren't available when they wrote the specs for that model and they never go back and update them.
John

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