Noah John wrote:
the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound
still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was:
G3 500 MHz vs. i386.
is about an 800-933 MHz P3
is about a 733 MHz Athlon or P4
is about a GHz celeron (celeron has no b-side cache).
You certainly have benchmarks to prove that ?
The G3 in the iBook has only 128k of L2 cache, and it is slower than my
iMac G3 400 (which has 512k of this same cache).
If you want a powerhorse of a laptop, get a TiBook, or an x86 laptop.
The x86 will give you a crappy architecture, and not much battery life.
In the end the iBook's performances are more than enough for playing
mp3s, playing quake3 in macos, do hacking, and a bit of GIMPing. DVD
playback should be possible if we get a version of libmpeg2 that's a tad
bit faster.
*however* it must be realised that it is immpossible and even foolish to
compare MHz values between these architectures, since ppc is a RISC
(reduced instruction set computing) as opposed to CISC (complex
instruction set computing) i386s.
Cheers
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/Bastien Nocera
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