: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)
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. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)
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 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)
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 -- Phillip Burk Exigent Systems Systems and Networking Planning, Implementation, Support 317.698.8528 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)
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? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---