HD speed and access improve speed (RAID, SCSI, SATA RAID)
Amount of RAM (more you have the more the OS can use as cache instead of using the slower hard drive)
CPU Speed
system Bus Speed
Amount of cache memory on CPU (for intensive tasks, cache stores commands)
This goes for PC's and Macs. What am I forgetting?
Mike tech @ AAHS
On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 08:34 AM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:20:02 -0500, Phillip Burk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's not that simple, however. I left out the iBook bench numbers since there's a dramatic difference between the architecture of the iBook and a Powerbook, L2 cache being the primary difference. The new 1.5 GHz PowerBook and the previous top-of-the-line 1.33 GHz PowerBook are virtually identical: 167 MHz bus, 1 MB L3 cache. I don't expect a dramatic difference in speed, just an incremental improvement - probably around 135 to 136 on the CineBench scale.
Does that help?
Yup.
The overall speed of a system is dependent on many different factors, and L2/L3 cache makes the overall system faster, if I understand correctly.
Thanks
TjL off to check the order status page for like the 1,000th time (they have shipped the Applecare Agreement :-)
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