: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)

[Clyde Kahrl]

Doubling a processor speed usually does not result in doubling the 
computer speed because the rest of the computer does not keep up 
proportionately.   With a powerbook, it helps to have a faster drive 
because of the slowness of the laptop drives in general.

From what I have read, the G4s are still going strong, and they 
should ramp up over 2Gs later on.  Motorola announced some 
super-low-power versions of the G4 a couple of months ago.  I was 
wondering what was the power consumption of these new laptops--or if 
we must wait longer for the new chips.
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Re: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)

[Timothy J. Luoma]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:07:26 -0500, Phillip Burk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

We'll have to wait until benchmarks are released...
Well what about the difference between an 800 - 900 or 900 - 1ghz?

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Re: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)

[Phillip Burk]

We'll have to wait until benchmarks are released...

On Apr 19, 2004, at 5:58 PM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:28:48 -0700, Jeff Hubatka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Yay for you too. That 1.5ghz is the fastest G4 Apple has made. I  
didn't think they would bump up the G4 speed anywhere since the G5  
came out last year. Hard to imagine three times faster than mine...
In the Pentium world, a 750mhz is not 50% faster than a 500mhz.  Is  
that
true for G4 as well?

I think they used to use 5% increase per 100Mhz as a general rule.  I'm
not sure where that rule came from or if it's true, but it's just one  
of
those things I heard somewhere.

TjL
 
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G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)

[Timothy J. Luoma]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:28:48 -0700, Jeff Hubatka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Yay for you too. That 1.5ghz is the fastest G4 Apple has made. I didn't  
think they would bump up the G4 speed anywhere since the G5 came out  
last year. Hard to imagine three times faster than mine...
In the Pentium world, a 750mhz is not 50% faster than a 500mhz.  Is that
true for G4 as well?
I think they used to use 5% increase per 100Mhz as a general rule.  I'm
not sure where that rule came from or if it's true, but it's just one of
those things I heard somewhere.
TjL

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