RAM or what?

Hi everyone!
I got an ibook G4, 1.33 GHz, 256 MB built-in RAM and 60 GB HD. In general, it's slower than it used to when I bought it, however, with certain applications it runs even slower than "normal". I still have 10 GB free in the HD. Should I increase the RAM to 1GB? or what other possible factors might be causing this problem? Thank you in advance

Hi! Your biggest problem is ram. Increase the ram to 1gig or more if possible and think about a bigger drive or freeing up older stuff you don't need. At 10 gig free your getting close to the free space minimum of 10-15% but ram is where your problem is and it's much easier to change than the hard drive. Tom

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RAM but now that I need to run Parallels for school
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