Tray loading Imac ram in I-book?

#1 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 - 23:17 68kMLA

Well would Ram from a tray loading I-mac Work in an Clam shell I book? I just mine and it only has stock ram, (the built in)

Also This is a 366Mh Ibook with Fire wire so yea,

Also the Battrie Still gets like four hours with out being used in a 3 years

#2 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 00:43 68kMLA

The iBook (Firewire) takes PC-66 SO-DIMM RAM. iMacs (the old ones) take PC-100 SO-DIMM RAM, and since PC-100 is backwards compatible with PC-66. Yes the iMac ram will work in the iBook.

I've taken ram from an iMac and placed it in my PowerBook G3 Lombard. Works fine.

#3 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 01:12 68kMLA

Ok thanks it just sucks with the 64mb of ram, yea I'm going to open my imac, later thanks

#4 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 - 13:10 68kMLA

Actually, the tray loading iMacs required a minimum of PC66 too, exactly the same as the clamshell iBook. It was the slot-load iMacs that required PC100.

So yeah, any RAM from your tray load iMac should work fine in your iBook, just keep in mind that the iBooks only have one slot.

#5 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 - 07:43 68kMLA

Yea I knew they only had one slot in the I-book I even just meses my 9 installed but that is another story and the added ram runs ines fine

#6 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 - 22:24 68kMLA

Beware. Some of the iMac G4 (later models before switching to the G5 processor) used DDR RAM on both the very bottom and inside. So make sure you have a model that uses SDRAM PC100, 133 or PC66 type.

To check and see, use the free app called MacTracker. It works on both OSX and OS9. You can get a copy from Versiontracker.com.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo: