adrian,
i have a powerbook G3/233 (wallstreet), and it is only a little slower
(running OS 9) than my S900 which has a metabox G4/400, 768MB, and two
9GB quantum atlas V (LVD-SCSI) drives. the processor is a little
slower, but the bus speed is a little faster (67MHz vs 50 MHz) and that
kinda equals out. i have an apple (quantum) 30GB HD (IDE) in the
wallstreet, and that can't compete with the LVD drives, which each have
8MB of onboard cache. and this wallstreet can only take a max of two
memory sticks, which currently limits you to 512MB of RAM (as far as i
know). there are processor upgrades available for the wallstreet up to
G4/500 (that i know of). anything more recent than the wallstreet
powerbooks will be that much faster and handle more RAM, but if you can
live with the RAM limit, you can probably pick up a wallstreet for a song.
you didn't mention what OS you're using, but the wallstreets will
natively support OSX up to 10.2 (jaguar) without having to use a hack
(e.g., XPostFacto) to install.
that's all i can think of right now. oh, the very early wallstreets
running at 233MHz did not have any L2 backside cache. the ones without
the cache are model # M3553 (i think). the later ones with the backside
cache are model # M4xxx. the powerbooks running above 233MHz all have
L2 cache.
that's my opinion, FWIW, and if i have made any errors in the technical
specs, i hope the more knowledgable members of this list will post
corrections
john
adrian o'sullivan wrote:
I'm interested in buying a used Apple laptop which would give me similar >
performance to an S900/G3/400MHz/1GB desktop. Can anyone recommend a
suitable Apple model?
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