Wondering if linked ram is OK for my Powerbook G4 12"

It's the right type, PC2100, but the page says Laptop PC; no mention of Mac. Macs running OS X are picky about RAM quality, so don't recommend you buy. Find RAM on eBay that says Mac or buy from a trusted Mac supplier like Other Workd Computing.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

You can ask the eBay supplier if it's Mac compatible.

Message was edited by: Texas Mac Man

Stick with OWC, as Tom mentioned, or Crucial. The PowerBook bus architecture uses bus skewing, which alters the power to the memory bus, to reduce heat and power consumption. A, usually inexpensive, memory card could meet the printed specs and still fail, typically with kernel panics. Crucial, at http:/www.crucial.com , guarantees it's memory will perform if chosen from their memory selector. Free shipping, and you can usually find a 5% off coupon on retailmenot.com. OWC carries Samsung, their own branded memory, and for some Micron memory, any of which are solid brands to go with.

Date Memory Systems ( http://www.datamemorysystems.com/G4_PowerBook_Memory.asp ) also is aware of the bus slewing issue and guarantees its RAM to work in the four PB variants that employ this technology.

BGreg, did you know at one point Crucial was NOT addressing the bus slewing issue? It made OWC and DMS a lot of friends and caused quite the public "watering" contest. All fixed now, apparently.

I cannot agree more here. I recently purchased a PowerBook G4/1.5 from a pretty repultable mac resaler that came with 2 hodge-podge 512mb chips in it that would only see 512 no matter what I did to swap them around.

Biting the bullet, I went over to OWC and purchased a 2 gig upgrade kit for around $66.00 +shipping, a few days wait, a 10 minute install later and smooth sailing on my PowerBook!

Good call on doing your homework and follow-up's on the forums. 😉

~Drake