Ram from a powerbook?

I just recently bought a MBP, and I also have a powerbook g4 12", is it feasible to transfer the added Ram from the powerbook to the MBP?

No. The MBP uses a different type of RAM. Your User Guide will provide the information on the type of RAM required.

Similar Messages

RAM from Powerbook vs. RAM for MacBook

Because Apple could not repair my Powerbook 17-inch, they replaced it with a new MacBook Pro. Now I have 2 GB of RAM I had installed in the Powerbook that I'd like to sell or trade for additional RAM for the MacBook. (I assume that the PC2-4200 from the Powerbook is not compatible with the MacBook -- please advise if that's incorrect.) How do I get some value out of the practically brand-new RAM from the Powerbook (which cost me $310 new in 11/2005)? I assume that the best way to get an additional 1 GB of RAM into the the new MacBook is simply to buy the appropriate RAM chip and install it -- but I'd appreciate any suggestions on that too.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1 GB of RAM
Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Terry
You're correct,The PowerBook RAM is not compatible with the MBP.
As far as selling the old RAM,Ebay is an option.
Although I seriously doubt you'll get anywhere near what you payed for it.
For new RAM,I use and reccommend OWC... http://macsales.com
Jim
PowerBook G3 500 Mhz "Pismo"/ 2.0Ghz BlackBook 2GB OWC RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7)

RAM from Powerbook for Macbook

I have a Powerbook G4 Ti 15"
Can I use the RAM from it to replace the RAM in my Macbook?
Andrea

The Powerbook Titanium does have SD-RAM and the Macbook DDR-RAM, you can not exchange them!
These are the exact specifications:
Powerbook Titanium:
PC133 SO-DIMM SD-RAM 133Mhz
Macbook:
PC-5300 SO-DIMM DDR2-RAM 667MHz 200 Pin
So it is just not possible! Only way to add more memory in the Macbook is to buy it with exact the specifications i mentioned above! Otherwise it will not work and fit!
Hopefully this is helpfull or solved your problem. Consider rewarding some points!
Please see the "helpfull" and "solved" button's on top off this message! Apple: Why reward points?

RAM from Powerbook to iMac?

Hey everyone.
A couple of months ago my Powerbook got so hot that some parts of the metal to the screen got soft and so when I turned down the screen it cracked. And so the wires were free and the screen did not last long. But Im not here to complain about the cooling ability of Powerbooks, because now I have gotten a new computer, an iMac.
And I was just wondering if I can take memory from the Powerbook (and other stuff that might be useful too) and put it in my iMac?

You can certainly sell parts so that others can use them to repair their PowerBooks, but the display, memory, hard drive, AirPort card, keyboard keys, etc. will not transfer into an Intel-based iMac, or even into a MacBook or MacBook Pro. Size, types, speeds are different.
There are usually numerous buyers looking for distressed, damaged or non-working Macs of all kinds. While some are looking for certain parts, repair shops like to buy the whole unit and disassemble it themselves to be certain there's no damage done in that process. They put the parts that aren't immediately needed on their shelves for future use.
edit- You could use the hard drive in an external case with your new iMac, but the small size of notebook hard drives makes them more valuable as replacment parts, and less valuable as supplementary storage.
Message was edited by: myhighway

Using ibook ram in my powerbook?

I recently purchased a used 15" PB G4 400 mhz with 640 mb ram.
I have taken steps to maximize performance given the low mhz. My wife will be using it for email, itunes, word processing and possibly some photo viewing (no photoshop or anything like that).
I have upgraded to 10.4.11 (which I believe to be the highest I can go) so I simply want a little more speed.
Anyway, I also have an old G4 12" ibook that needs a new hard drive. I am curious of if I can use any of the ram from that for the powerbook.
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
Unfortunately I don't know much about the insides of the ibook and besides installing airports cards in both, I haven't opened these up much before.

Thanks a lot. Now I just need to know what I CAN get. I'm finding online that the 400 mhz often isn't listed when compatibility is mentioned.
Based on what I put for specs, can I just get another 512mb stick to match the other? Will that max me out? What is the max?
Thanks again!
John

Apple vs 3rd Party RAM on new powerbook

I am going to buy a 15inch 1.67 powerbook by the end of the week. I plan on gettingthe 128 video ram, and need to upgrade the regular ram because my brothers 12 inch powerbook g4 with 512 ram is too slow for final cut express i have found.
My question to all of you out in MAC land is why on earth would i pay apple the $300 plus dollar for the 1 dimm 1 GB of ram when i could just take the 512 and buy another GIG of ram from mac mall for less than two hundred?
Is this just part of Mac's price jacking or is there a reason that i can get 1.512 gigs of ram for a hundred less from the internet or mail order yet it will cost me an extra $300ish for 1 GB from apple?

Excuse me, I hate to do this, I know I don't live in your pocket.Get the best quality available - get a second battery as well if you can.The way I see it, as computers and needs, availabilities, perspectives - name it as you like it - grow day after day, getting the better makes hardware last longer. When I wanted to get extra RAM, I talked with many and ended up with the most expensive.It payed back when I was making movies with 90% of the HD exploited!

HT1338 can the ram on a powerbook g4 be increased?

can the ram on a powerbook g4 be increased?

Turn off the powerbook, flip it over and on the bottom there will be two rectangles. the one with the screws is for RAM. unscrew the four screws, remove the panel, and there will be a circuit there. on either side will be two metal flaps, push both towards outer edges and the circuit will pop up. remove that and there may or may not be another underneath. from there you can add or take away ram from your powerbook

Harddrive from a powerbook g4 17 into a powerbook g4 1.33 ghz with OSX Tiger already installed.

Hi,
Quick question.
I have put a harddrive from a powerbook g4 17 into a powerbook g4 1.33 ghz with Tigeralready installed.
Was this and is this a bad idea or is it ok if I just check/repairpermisions or wil this cause lots of problems and I should reinstall OSX?
I know with windows this would never work but I don’t knowif OSX really controls how the mac runs of if its just the firmware alreadythere.
First boot it worked and I was in Tiger for about 5 min but then I added ram and it just try’s to boot into OSX now but after 20min of waiting I reset the powerbook.
thanks.
Sam

thanks, I think your correct normnod but Im not sure if it includes updates and if they are machine Specific.
It was from 17 inch 1.67ghz to a 12 inch 867Mhz and like a say it boot the first time but now I get a small
blip sound when I press the power button and no dong sound so maybe I did mess something up.
I did try pulling the battery and using shift > control > option andpower and I got no boot and blank screen again
(this is model A1010) sorry its wrong title.
and then the second time I got fan sound a dvd rom drive running but nothing on the screen and again no dong.
seeing if leaving it without its battery overnight will help by resetting everything.
I might have apple jack installed on the harddrive already if thet will help? but i still need a dong to get into that.
Sam

Mixing RAM from different manufacturer's?

Hi
i currently have 2.5 gig of ram that was installed by apple, and i am looking to add matched pair of 1 GB to give me 2 more gig of ram, and 4.5 total
can i mix my standard ram with samsung ram? i dont want to buy and have it not work, also there is same ram on the site with slightly different specs for less, a, i better off going with that?
thanks in advance!
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Samsung/3200DDRSAM2P/

Hi, and a Warm Welcome to the Power Mac G5 Forum!
Well - the G5 RAM specs are here
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86414
Some of the Apple Original G5 RAM was Samsung, apparently.
You will not go far wrong purchasing RAM from OWC with their "Lifetime Advance Replacement Warranty"...
Personally I have never had a problem with Crucial
http://crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=1D1DFB01A5CA7304
who have a similar guarantee. And the parent company of Crucial - Micron - were also suppliers of Apple Original G5 RAM, apparently. Good Luck.

From my powerbook to my TV?

Hiya,
Does anyone know what cables I need, and where I can buy them to take the image out from my Powerbook onto a tv, then the sound into a PA system.... so basically the yellow, red and white cable input things...
does that make sense?!

Hi bamm, Did louies suggestions help?
I have been using my PB with VCR to TV for a month now. Gave up on making DVDs with this so called superDrive... now making vhs tapes...
Are you using the apple supplied S-VHS cord? It is a rather strange cord that ends with a standard video-out NOT S-VHS. Seems that you cannot use a standard S-V
HS to S-VHS but the supplied apple cord. If you want to do S-VHS to S-VHS then you have to buy another cord from apple - of course!
Also, to get the image onto tv I press the apple button + F1 (or sometimes F2) which automatically detects the display. You can use this instead of going into system pref.
Good luck getting it all to work.
frank
PowerBook15" 5,6_PowerPC G4 (1.2)1.5GHz1G RAM_167MHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) really wanting to love my new PB but...
PowerBook15" 5,6_PowerPC G4 (1.2)1.5GHz1G RAM_167MHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) really wanting to love my new PB but...

Transfer itunes library from my powerbook G4 to new iMac?

Hi,
Just today I received my brand new 24" iMac, I used setup assistant to transfer the files from my powerbook G4 to the new iMac ( I use an external hard drive connected to my laptop where all the music is located ) and everything seem to transfer well with the exception of my music and videos on itunes... the library is there, but the music and videos didn't transfer ( I get the message that the files could not be found ) What do i need to do to move all my content (almost 180GB) to my new iMac?
Thank you for the help guys!
Rob

I found out how to do it... just connect the external HD to the new iMac and transfer the itunes file and authorize the computer.

Retrieve Data from a PowerBook 170

This is a follow-up to my post "Powerbook 145 apparently dead". I elected not to replace the fuse because I feared I wouldn't be able to properly install the new one, or that the problem that caused the fuse to blow will still be there and the new one will blow too.
So, I bought a PowerBook 170 on eBay, swapped its hard disk for my old one, and booted it up. And sure enough, everything was exactly the way I left it 10 years ago. So now I'm wondering how to transfer those documents to my 2009 Mac Pro with OS 10.6 - not an easy tasks, considering these machines have no interfaces in common. Here are what I consider to be my three options (please advise if there are others) -
1) Transfer using floppy disks: I have a working USB floppy drive and a copy of TransMac 9.1 on my Bootcamp Windows 7 installation (since 10.6 no longer reads the HFS disks, only HFS+), so I can transfer via floppy disks. This will be the least convenient but the cheapest since I already have all the equipment (except a stack of floppy disks).
2) Attempt to burn a CD: I don't know of any CD-RW's that would work with the PowerBook 170 running System 7. If anyone does (and it's possible to find it at a reasonable price), please let me know.
3) Attempt to network the PowerBook: I found a third-party SCSI to ethernet adapter that has a driver for System 7 and user testimonials that claim it works with the PowerBook 100 series. That might let the PowerBook onto the internet, but there's no guarantee the Mac Pro will be able to see it on the network. Also, this adapter is exceedingly rare and commands a substantial price on eBay.
So... what should I do?
Thanks in advance!

Update: It was a tedious process, but I have done it. I transferred everything from my PowerBook 145's hard disk using Method 1 as described in my original post. The gist of it is as follows:
1) I saved everything from the old PowerBook to floppy disks, using segmented archives created by ZipIt 1.3.5 where necessary (i.e., a single document or program was larger than a floppy disk's capacity), including third-party system files.
2) I imaged each disk using TransMac 9.1 running in Windows 7 on my Bootcamp installation.
3) I consolidated the contents of all the individual disk images into one image using DiskCopy in Mac OS 9 on Sheepshaver (a very useful, albeit not very stable, PPC emulator, for those of you unfamiliar with it). This was not technically necessary, but it would be convenient when it came time to transfer the data in step 4.
4) I created a disk image in BasiliskII (a 68k Mac emulator with a similar interface to Sheepshaver) and installed System 7.1 on it, which was the OS that my old PowerBook had. Then I transferred the contents of the disk image containing all my transferred files. The end result was a nearly exact (there may have been hidden files that didn't transfer, but otherwise it's complete) clone of my PowerBook's hard disk that's bootable in the emulator, so theoretically it will be forever accessible on my Mac Pro running OS X.
Anyway, hopefully this will help someone who's in the same position. On a side note, I really wanted to go with Method 3, but that SCSI to Ethernet adapter I found on eBay sold for $86 and would probably have necessitated the purchase of an intermediate machine, i.e. an early G3 PowerMac, to complete the process. This wasn't really an option as I'm still a starving grad student.

Is it possible to use the ram from a macbook in a iMac?

I am installing new ram on my Early 2011 Macbook Pro (2.3 Ghz., 13 inch, os x 10.9.4). Can I install the old ram from my Macbook Pro into a Mid-2011 iMac(2.7 Ghz., 27 inch, os x 10.9.4)? These links show the ram specs, and they look identical to me. iMac: How to remove or install memory MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory

Yes, it is the same spec.
MacBook Pro:
Maximum Memory
16 GB (Actual) 8 GB (Apple)
Memory Slots
2 - 204-pin PC-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM
iMac:
Maximum Memory
32 GB (Actual) 16 GB (Apple)
Memory Slots
4 - 204-pin PC3-10600 (1333 MHz) DDR3 SO-DIMM

I just migrate settings and software from my PowerBook to a new Mac Pro. All the software download from CC is there and working, except for CC, and there is not way to install.

I just migrate settings and software, include CC, from my PowerBook to a new Mac Pro. All the software download from CC is there and working, except for CC, and there is not way to install. I have try because every time I restar keep bothering asking for installation, (by the way, the link is not up to date). Will appreciate your help.

never migrate adobe software. it should be properly installed.
uninstall all the cc programs you can, clean and then reinstall per, Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6

Going from a Powerbook to a new Macbook

I have just purchased a new Macbook and want to transfer everything from my older (3 year old) Powerbook G4 to it. Can I use a Firewire to Firewire connection to do an "all at once" transfer? One IT person says yes, another is more conservative and says I should just copy data files, user files, documents, etc. Any advice would be welcome.

Use a FireWire cable to connect the two computers and start your PowerBook up while holding the 'T' key. This will mount the PowerBook's hard drive on your MacBook. Now you could use the Migration Assistant at this point to transfer your data and applications. Some will tell you they've used it to transfer stuff from a PPC computer to an Intel computer without trouble. And they have. Others will tell you there are pitfalls and you shouldn't. Their experiences are also true. I know, I've had it happen both ways and since I'm not confident I know exactly what has to be done to guarantee a good transfer I won't recommend it.
While connected in FireWire Target Disk mode, transfer your data from the PowerBook to MacBook. If you have AppleWorks and intend to continue using it, copy it to the MacBook. Then gather up your installation disks and reinstall everything. That I know is safe.

Ram from a powerbook?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for