i-Macs and memory

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Okay, I can't sign in to hotmail because my browser is too low on memory. Since this is my home computer and I work from home this leaves me a bit buggered.
I've tried allocating more memory to Internet Explorer, but I can't. (I'm using OS 9, the procedure I've been trying is to select Explorer and then go to GET INFO in the file menu. There's supposed to be a memory option there, but all I have is general info.)

Help me please. How can I give the bastard thing more memory?

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Memory is under the pull down menu in get info, but you have to set the memory in the actual application not for its alias. If the icon you have has a little arrow in the bottom right hand corner, it is an alias. Click on this icon and choose find original from the file menu. Do the get info on the application, select memory from the pull down menu near the top of the info box and then set the preferred size to something larger.

You may wish to consider a less cumbersome OS 9 browser like iCab or Chimera.

If you wan to get more memory go to.
http://www.crucial.com/uk

You should really consider moving up to OS X because it handles all of this rubbish automatically.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed, you're an angel. I'll try that now. I would love OS X, but I have no money and no one to steal software off. I'm not even sure my increasingly knackered mac could handle it.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

How much memory have you got? Which iMac is it?

(I have the disks)

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It says
Available for use on disk: 996m
Available uilt in memory: 64m

It's one of the old kind, from when they were all still turquiose, but had abandoned the pop out disc thing.

(Sorry, I'm not a total technophobe, but I'm not 100 per cent sure what I'm talking about.)

The above advice worked, I'd been opening from an alias. Thanks, I owe you one.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

You'd need a good deal more memory for OS X and I'm not sure if that model is supported by OS X. I'll investigate in a little bit.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a 233MHz one I'm pretty sure. If you'd said earlier I could have taken 128MB for you from the powerbook I sold last month. Ah well.

My brother puts up with OS X on a 233MHz PowerBook with 160MB of RAM, though he has a huge expansion bay hard disk.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Anna you probably don't need that much "virtual memory". Try going to the memory control panel, and set your virtual memory to something more like 256 megs. Your iThing may behave a bit snappier.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

the 966Mb is just the space availible for use as VM

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha... you have a mac, you fool.

― thuddd (thuddd), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you guys ready for the... iPURSE!?!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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