Running iTunes7 on a 800Mhz iMac G4 (256mb Ram)

Hi,
i have an iMac G4 Flat panel (800Mhz-256mb Ram) and after hearing some people complaining on these boards of not being able to run iTunes7 properly on macs with a similar spec as mine i have decided for the time being not to upgrade from iTunes6.
Is there anyone on here who is running iTunes7 successfully with less than a 1Ghz. What limitations can i expect from iTunes7 on my iMac.
Thanks

I'm sure you will benefit by adding more RAM.
It will decrease disk access, which slows down the system.
About Cover Flow:
The first time I used it, it behaved rather slow and jerky.
Of course iTunes had to get all the artwork from the song files, which meant a lot of disk activity.
iTunes then stores the albumart in .itc files in ./Users/Username/Music/iTunes/album artwork/Local.
I guess this is done for faster access of the pictures.
The next time, I slowly flipped through Cover Flow to enable iTunes to pick up all artwork.
This morning, when I ran iTunes, and browsed through Cover Flow, it behaved somehow jerky (a lot of disk access), but after that it worked rather smooth.
I could only hear occasional disk access, so iTunes must have stored most pictures in RAM.
One more thing. I recently replaced the HD by a larger and faster one (200 GB Maxtor) which also speeds things up (reading/writing at least twice as fast than the 'old' drive). That also helps a bit.
Long story short:
Add more RAM. I'm sure you will not be disappointed by that investment.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7) iTunes 7.0

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