Should i put more into my pc before editing

I own a ibook g4 512 ram with 80 gig. and i was wondering am i going to have to invest anything more into my pc if i wanted to edit vidios. i alrealy know and want to buy a 250 gig external hard drive but should i put more ram into the book before i do some serious editing with this thing??

There is a long long thread about iDVD5 problems throwing doubt on memory upgrades. There are a number of strong views expressed and it takes a great deal of reading.
Click on Old Toad, "iDVD 5 appears "hung" at audio encoding" #173, 01:28pm Sep 13, 2005 CDT

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