Is more memory worth it?

I just installed a 1GB memory card in my PB bringing my total memory to 1.25GB. I got a good price on it so I decided to purchase/install it but is it worth it? I don't mean that in a bad way, I just would like to know what kind of improvement(s) I can expect to see in the performance of my PB.
Thanks!

Well that extra RAM, assuming it is good quality RAM, should help a lot when you decide to upgrade to Tiger. I find Tiger will take as much RAM as it can find. Also anytime you open large documents or many documents at once such as with iPhoto or Photoshop, RAM is always helpful. Mind you if you ever get four language screens saying you must restart (called kernel panics) and you haven't done any upgrading other than the RAM, that may be a place to look for possible kernel panics. So I would give the RAM a dry run before upgrading the machine any further to see how well it handles multitasking and heavy duty applications. If it does well, then backup your data before upgrading and then upgrade when you need to.

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More RAM is in direct proportion to the speed in which applications load and function, especially in gaming and surfing the web and download speeds.
More Ram is always better. You are presently on the low side of the preverbal graph. This is the reason for sluggish performance.
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http://www.crucial.com/uk/
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venom --
With all due respect, I find it hard to believe you ever worked at Apple.
You can't spell. And you believe that Mavericks only needs 1 GB to install. Totally incorrect.
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Hi Guys
I own a 13 inch Macbook Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 which currently has 4GB of memory. It often seems to run quite slowly, so I was wondering whether it might be worth upgrading the memory on it. Based on what I've read online, it seems the way to tell if you could benefit from more memory is to look at page ins/outs. Compared to what I've seen online mine seem to be quite high.
I wondered if you guys could advise as to whether or not I could benefit from some additional memory? Would I actual notice any improvement in the performance of my MBP If I were to add more?
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Next, open iDVD, choose your theme and drag the QT movie file into the menu window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Then follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
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First and for most I want to make sure that I'm addressing the correct problem that's why I am asking a question that appears to be asked by many people on here. I mainly use my imac 27" to produce music (I use Logic and a LOT of plugins and instruments) and well I always get the following message:
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I would just like to add to what everyone else said about 4GB really not being enough for doing much of anything. Even Safari and Mail can easily run up to the limit.
If you are running up against the memory limit, your computer will start doing what is known as "thrashing". On an OS like iOS, too much memory simply causes running apps to be killed. On Windows and OSX, if you try to use more memory than what is available, the computer will start to use a disk cache as if it was memory. It will try to put the "older" items in memory to the disk. If you need to access that memory, the OS needs to load it back from disk. The problem is that the disk is about 20x or more slower than memory. When your computer is thrashing, it will seem like it is not working at all.
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At line:1 char:1
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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