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Hi
When I bought my iMac G5 I specified 512meg of RAM. I recently added another 1gig giving a total now of 1.5gig.
I make good use of Adobe Photoshop and Bridge, Safari, Pages and iWeb.
Since adding more RAM the machine has felt more 'solid' but it would be hard to say I have noticed a real jump in speed.
Is it worth adding more RAM? If so how much will make a noticable difference?
Thanks in advance for any advice on this.
David

The specs for all iMacs can be found HERE. If your machine shipped with Panther (10.3) then it is a first gen G5 iMac. If that iSight is a built-in iSight and you have a G5, then you have the iMac iSight model.
Pageouts can be found in your activity monitor. Open it up and hit the "system memory" option. Next to the pie chart is an entry for "page ins/outs." Pageouts are cumulative since your last restart, so if there are a large number of pageouts, that in itself is not an indicator that you need more RAM. If the number of ins is close to or larger than the number of outs, then you need more RAM.
Right now, my Mac has been on for over 4 days and I have 69611 page ins and only 1164 pageouts.
When I said you should see an increase in performance, I meant from the 512MG to 1.5GB, not from 1.5GB to 2GB. If pageouts are not a problem, it would not matter if you had more RAM since your system is not fully utilizing what it already has.

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