Pushing for more time with a 4.5 year old PowerBook G4 1.33GHZ (12-inch).

I have a PowerBook G4 1.33GHZ (12-inch) running Mac 10.4.11 that I purchased in the summer of 2004. It's been a great laptop, and in fact still continues to be with most of the things I use it for.
Memory: original 512 total RAM (256 built in, 256 DDR SDRAM)
Hard Drive: original FUJITSU MHT2060AT 55.89 GB (i.e. "60")
Battery: Full Charge Capacity (mAh) of 945; 259 cycles. Replaced in Fall 2007 in the battery replacement program.
Battery AC Adaptor: heavily modified due to needed repairs See here for what I did.
So, a laptop that's lasted 4.5 years is pretty good, but I'd like to push for ~2 years more if possible.
I use the laptop for web-browsing, document editing and presentations. I do a little bit of design (GIMP) and computation (Octave), and run a MAMP set-up for wordpress development at times, but currently it's almost fast enough for my needs.
What would be recommended for upgrade? I'm already thinking about:
*getting a memory upgrade. (the 1GB options on this page. Anybody have experience with these? I'm a poor grad student, so cost does matter, but I don't want to get something that doesn't improve my computer too.).
*getting a new battery soon (current one lasts 40-60 minutes).
To justify those costs to myself, I'm wondering about the probability of a component failing. The possible components I can imagine are:
Hard-drive
Display
Motherboard
keyboard/trackpad
Anyone know average lifespan of those components for this computer? How risky is it to push for another 2 years?

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
To see if additional memory would help for what you run, in applications/utilities, open up Activity Monitor and look at the system memory tab, specifically at page ins/outs. If page outs is more than 10% to 15% or so of page ins, you can use more memory. That says your system doesn't have enough physical memory for what you run, and has to free up memory by moving it to the hard drive fairly often. The values reset whenever you reboot the system.
On memory, you want to use quality memory, especially for a 1.33Ghz system. I'd recommend Crucial (http://www.crucial.com), Kingston - not their value-ram though (http://www.kingston.com) or Samsung, which is sold through distributors. Crucial is $53 and Samsung from OWC in your link is $55. You can usually find a 5% discount or free shipping coupon for Crucial on the web. Kingston memory is running $64+.
Hard drives are one component that can fail, typically in the 3-5 year range. If you don't have it already, SMARTreporter is a neat monitoring program that puts an icon on your menu bar, which by monitoring the SMART status, can sometimes give you early warning of an impending failure. You can get this free utillity at http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/ . Of course, having a regular backup regimen is your best insurance against hard drive failure.
Display, logic board, and keyboard failures do happen, but not with great frequency. I wouldn't spend time considering that, epecially since there's not much you can do as preventative maintenance.
One thing I do is to periodically run OnyX, which you can download from http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html . Run the tasks on the cleaning and maintenance tabs will help keep your disk in good order. Again, having a recent backup is good insurance when doing anything to the hard drive.

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