On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:24, Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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.
I have to second Bastien, Its right under say a celleron 300a for performance....maybe....and thats a big maybe. That said, its still plenty strong for most everything I do. And I really do get 4-5 hours of battery life during normal useage. As far as dvd playback goes...its works for me just fine. Every so often it hickups.....and we sure could use a more efficient<sp?> libmpeg2 library....but I am not disapointed by how well it behaves. Especialy now that Ihave a 512mb module in it. But if you are looking for some powerhouse number cruncher...well, the iBook2 isn't it. John
