considering how old the macbook is it's normal for it to have 512 ram

back in the day when everyone was still telling me mac is king of the world they would say that they don't need as much ram as windows because they use it more efficiently...

tell that to this G5 with 1gb of ram which sounds like it's going to blast off into space at any point

it might not hurt to also acquire some more ram for your macbook too. i assume you can stick any normal ram into a mac... unless there is special mac-ram that you can only use and pay a giantly over priced amount for it