On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 14:14 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:07 +0800, Andrew Schox wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Can anyone give me a subjective (or objective for that matter) > > opinion on the sort of performance boost I'd get from going from an > > 800MHz G3 iBook to a 1.33GHz G4? There's 500MB RAM in the old one, > > and I'd probably do the same in the new one. > > In a word - lots, though how much and what will depend on what you do. > I'm hardly a Mac expert, but I do use them a bit at work and I have > quite a lot of experience with hardware changes in general.
OK. I didn't notice that your new machine was going to be an iBook - it was only mentioned in the subject. Oops. You can pretty much disregard my comments on disk performance - there might be a slightly better disk, but it's hard to say. RAM is probably easier to come by for the new iBooks than older G4s, too. The rest still stands, sans the comment about not being sure how cut down the mobile CPUs are (they're both mobile versions so it probably doesn't matter much). Re video hardware, do be aware that the iBooks come with lower end video hardware than the PowerBooks. I'd check to make sure it's even better than what your current one came with (though I sure hope it is). Ah well ... that'll teach me to double check the subject line. -- Craig Ringer
