The only way a Kanga could possibly be faster than a Wallstreet with a G3/500 installed would be if the Wallstreet's L2 cache was somehow being disabled. A G3 with a disabled cache is no faster than a 603e processor.
The Wallstreet has a faster front-side bus, faster RAM and a CPU clocked at twice the Kanga's speed. It also uses a faster graphics accelerator. It doesn't feel any faster to your wife because she's not using it for anything where the added speed matters. Even a stock Wallstreet, unless it's that awful cacheless "Mainstreet" version, will be faster than a Kanga. Of course, there could be another reason. Was she using OS 9 on the Kanga and OS X on the Wallstreet? A Kanga could probably run basic programs in OS 9 faster than a 500 MHz Wallstreet would run them in Jaguar. > After moving to the Aluminum 15" I passed on to my wife my loyal > Wallstreet II with the bluechip G3 500MHz thing. She had been using a > Kanga for a few months before and... surprise! > > She said that the Kanga is actually faster than the Wallstreet for > her basic tasks: email, limited web access (mainly the site > http://europa.eu.int) and word processing. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
