iBook RAM

[danaeris]

Anyone on here know if the RAM for a new MacBook is the same RAM that an iBook G4 would have used?

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[acegreco.livejournal.com]

MacBook - 667 MHz Double Data Rate (DDR2) Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (SDRAM)

It allows any RAM that meets the following requirements:

* Double Data Rate Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module (DDR SO-DIMM) format
* 1.25 inch or smaller
* 512 MB or 1 gigabyte (GB)
* 200-pin
* PC2-5300 DDR2 667 MHz Type RAM

iBook G4 (Mid 2005) - PC2700 (DDR 333) 200-pin, 1.25 inch SDRAM SO-DIMM

iBook G4 (Early / Late 2004) - PC2100 (DDR 266) 200-pin, 1.25 inch SDRAM SO-DIMM

The long and the short of it is...

No.

The clock speeds would make it impossible to use MacBook RAM in an iBook G4, however you, in theory, can use the iBook G4 RAM in a MacBook.

Tada! :3

[acegreco.livejournal.com]

Oh right. Forgot to mention. If you do use the iBook G4 RAM in a MacBook, it will suck. Quite badly. The fact the clock speed is so awful in the iBook will limit a lot of the MacBook's functionality to about half of the design specs.

Even though it's possible (theoretically, if they allow the higher capacity board to use the lower clocked RAM) I wouldn't suggest it.

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

the iBooks use DDR versus the DDR2 on the MacBook. they are physically incompatible.

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

http://canadacomputers.com/main.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=013360&cid=RAM.187.566 is stupidly cheap. argh mail in rebates though :p

[acegreco.livejournal.com]

Heh. True 'dat. I completely missed that fact. The issue of the obscenely higher clockspeed should have clued me in. lol

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Is my original mac mini RAM any good? I'm not using it.

[acegreco.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Mac Mini RAM is standard 667 mhz RAM, so it should work in the MacBook, although I'd double check everything beforehand, down to the number of pins on the chips. Also, it needs to be greater than or equal to or greater than 512 Mb, so unless you added RAM to your MacBook after you bought it, it still has the standard 256 Mb sticks in it. Don't quote me on any of this though. :3