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PowerBook G4 Titanium DVI Upgrade Guide
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RAM
More RAM equals more speed and performance. The Titanium DVI uses PC133 RAM chips. Upgrading your RAM is a quick and painless way to add more muscle to your machine. On the Titanium DVI, you don't have to remove any screws to upgrade your RAM! We offer different sizes, from 128 MB to 512 MB. For maximum performace, you can use a 512 MB chip in each slot, giving your machine a total of 1 GB RAM. Browse our RAM.
Hard Drive
There are two factors to consider when upgrading your hard drive. The most obvious upgrade is total amount of space. However, disk speed also significantly contributes to performance. Your Titanium uses hard drives with an ATA connector, ranging from 2 to 160 GB and from 4200 to 7200 RPM. If you install a hard drive with a capacity over 128 GB, you will need to partition the drive into at least two partitions so that no single partition exceeds 128 GB. Browse our hard drives to find what works best for you. You can use our free guides to painlessly install your new drive.
Optical Drive
Apple used standard laptop optical drives in all Titanium DVI machines, which makes upgrading the optical drive very easy. Also, unlike some other models, even the optical drive can be upgraded fairly easily. Most Titanium DVI machines shipped with an 8x combo drive, while the high-end models shipped with a 1x Superdrive. Not sure which drive you have? Look in Apple system profiler for the drive's model. If the model is CW-8121 you have an 8x combo drive, while UJ-815 denotes a 1x Superdrive. If your drive is dead or you're tired of waiting long periods for discs to burn, you can upgrade to a 24x combo drive or 8x SuperDrive. If you're sure you don't need to burn DVDs, a combo drive will suffice, while the SuperDrive will allow you to burn DVD as well as CDs.
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