On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Blake Carlson wrote: > I've seen some good discussion about the G3 vs. G4 on this > thread, but you all are neglecting the rest of the system when > comparing the TiBook vs. iBook2. > > > TiBook as 100MHz bus vs. 66MHz in iBook2. This is a *big* deal. > Also, the TiBook has large 1MB cache running at 200MHz vs. iBook2's > 256KB cache running at full clock (500MHz). So, depending on your > app and how it uses the cache, you could see some major performance > differences here. The iBook2 will win if the cache requirements are > small (disregard AltiVec for now) and TiBook will kill the iBook2 > as soon as the cache requirements go up.
Well, this is no longer true. The 600MHz iBook has a 100MHz bus. The 500MHz model has a 66MHz bus. Both the iBook and the newest TiBook have a 256KB cache on the chip. Another difference that nobody is mentioning is the TiBook has a PCMCIA slot where the iBook has none. I use mine for better wireless ethernet (that lucent/airport rig sucks) and to attach SCSI peripherals. With the iBook I guess you would have to resort to an IEEE-1394 <-> SCSI bridge? The TiBook has gigabit ethernet and the iBook has 10/100. This probably doesn't matter to anyone but there it is. Apple have just introduced a new 667 MHz TiBook with 16 MB Radeon graphics. This should be considerably zippier than the previous model. I hope I have covered all the differences between these two laptops :) -jwb
