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To: carrngc who wrote (10256)	3/27/1998 11:41:00 AM
From: Mark Palmberg	Respond to of 213177

Am I to believe this chip is useless? Only if you believe in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause. The chip would be worthless if you ordered your machine with the maximum amount of memory already installed. But then you wouldn't need a memory upgrade anyway, would you? There are two other options you can choose besides the 32MB of memory when you buy a new Mac through their "Spring Break" plan. Mark

To: carrngc who wrote (10256)	3/27/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: Dirk Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Most of the "currently available" SDRAM DIMMs >64M are a little bit too tall to fit in the desktop form factor for the G3. 16s, 32s, and 64s fit into the slots fine and someone will make slightly shorter (less tall) 128s and 256s that will fit. As far as I know, the motherboard is the same in the minitower and the desktop and therefore it is simply a physical height problem that limits the desktop G3s. Eric might be able to clarify this last point: Apple's store suggests that the max RAM for the G3s is 384M (3 slots X 128M DIMMs). Memory resellers are selling 256M SD RAM DIMMs. One can assume that these will work in the current G3s (raising the max RAM to 768M) and that Apple either can't get enough chips of this size to meet expected demand or can't make enough to take on the liability of selling these greater-capacity chips. Dirk