Upgrading Memory Mac Mini Power PC 1.42 GHz Machine
My mother's Mac Mini was purchased by my now-deceased father. It has a Power PC G4 processor (unlike my Mac Mini's Intel Core Duo). It has a total of 512 MB PC3200 memory.
I have two sticks of 512 MB PC2-4200 memory that I pulled from a Sony Vaio and wondered about upgrading her memory to 1 GB. The memory is the exact same size as the memory that I removed from my Mac Mini Intel Core Duo model.
Memory-4-less sells 1GB DDR-333 (PC2700) for $60 and recommends this for the Power PC Mac Mini. That does not seem like much.
There are apparently two memory slots in a Mac Mini. If I put in one 1GB stick from a retailer, will that work? That is, do I need to have identical sticks of memory in the two slots instead of one stick in one slot?
Do you think the leftover memory I have, the two sticks of 512 MB PC2-4200 memory, might work in the Power PC Mac Mini? It would only save the $60 and does not seem worth the risk and hassle if I could just buy her new memory.
I have two sticks of 512 MB PC2-4200 memory that I pulled from a Sony Vaio and wondered about upgrading her memory to 1 GB. The memory is the exact same size as the memory that I removed from my Mac Mini Intel Core Duo model.
Memory-4-less sells 1GB DDR-333 (PC2700) for $60 and recommends this for the Power PC Mac Mini. That does not seem like much.
There are apparently two memory slots in a Mac Mini. If I put in one 1GB stick from a retailer, will that work? That is, do I need to have identical sticks of memory in the two slots instead of one stick in one slot?
Do you think the leftover memory I have, the two sticks of 512 MB PC2-4200 memory, might work in the Power PC Mac Mini? It would only save the $60 and does not seem worth the risk and hassle if I could just buy her new memory.
Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo 2 GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM
