PowerBook 520/540

Memory Information
RAM Speed
On Board RAM
Supported sizes in MB
Maximum RAM
Virtual Memory
On Board VRAM
Number of VRAM slots
70ns
4MB
4,8,12,20,32
36MB
1Gb
512K*
None
Notes
The PowerBook 520, 520c, 540 and 540c have 4Mb soldered on the daughterboard and one DRAM expansion slot. Expandable to 12Mb with 8Mb Apple RAM Expansion Card or up 36Mb with third-party RAM expansion cards.

* There is 512K of VRAM available for internal and external video for a total of 1Mb. It is not expandable.

32-BIT Information
This system has 32-bit-clean ROMs allowing it to take advantage of more than 8Mb of physical RAM under System 7 by enabling 32 bit addressing in the Memory Control Panel.


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