So go mad, people: buy yourself some more memory and get the most out of your machine.Īnyway, after a bit of a hiatus when the first chip they put into the machine prevented it from booting up (the Swiss salesperson blamed mass production, which I guess is what has brought memory prices down), they found a second chip, which worked, and I was on my way. When I was told that it would only cost me 150 Swiss Francs (about sixty quid) for 128Mb, I stopped prevaricating about whether to go for 64 or 128! I can remember buying 128Mb of RAM for the Wall Street PowerBook at MacWorld in San Francisco two years ago, and running from booth to booth bargaining the price down to $270 (about £180) including fitting, about half of the UK cost at the time. I can't believe how cheap memory upgrades for PowerBooks have become.

The freeware MDA Piano plug‑in is a must for fans of '80s‑style digital pianos.Īfter letting the CD‑ROMs sit there on the shelf for a week looking at me, I finally made time to go and get the necessary memory upgrade for the iBook, as OSX has a 128Mb minimum requirement. It's much simpler to just upgrade from 9.1. I was pretty glad I hadn't bothered with the Public Beta in the end, as upgrading from it to full release version looks fairly complicated, according to the PDF file that comes on the CD. This I obtained at an excellent OSX launch party at the end of March in Zurich (Switzerland, where I'm spending a lot of time lately, has the highest per capita Mac ownership of any country in the world, so they really pushed the boat out). It's a Graphite 466 with both USB and FireWire, which I got my father for Christmas (but he didn't like as much as my old Wall Street 300MHz PowerBook, so we swapped), and both OSX and OS9.1 are living in reasonable harmony on it, within the same partition! After my initial experience with the OSX Public Beta, which caused my computer to appear to lose nine months worth of audio recordings (see the March Apple Notes), I was loath to do any more playing around with that version and waited until Apple were able to give me the full release version.

I'm happy to report that this month's Apple Notes is being written on an iBook. With a new computer, pumped‑up RAM, and a copy of the release version of Mac OSX, Paul Wiffen is all set to take you through the first stages of using the new operating system for music - though the only music going on so far is solo organ! OSX - it certainly looks pretty, but what could it do to your music software?

Thor: Ragnarok for mac instal