Will more ram speed this machine up

I have 1 gb of ram in my 1.67 powerbook. It has an 80gb hard drive. I have a fair amount of programs downloaded and pictures/songs in my itunes. If I double the ram will it speed up the computer significantly to where I'll really notice a differance. Its pretty fast overall, only when I switch from program to program and such that I see the circular colors spinning in the ying yang way or whatever that is.
How much does it cost to have an extra gig of ram installed? Is it possible? Will it help this computer?
Thanks

A better test would be to open up (and open files with, if appropriate) the apps that you tend to use when you're "busiest" on your computer, and then see how your Activity Monitor reacts.
Note that the yellow area is actually not "page out" - it's the amount of RAM that your applications are actively using. The blue area is RAM used by a program but not active - so it's available to other programs or the system. The green area is completely unused. When you think about it, there's actually no point having completely unused RAM - it doesn't benefit your computer in any way if it's not being used. A good balance would be to have all your RAM used by your apps, but have enough blue (inactive) area that if you needed to open more apps without a speed penalty, you could.
Matt

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