This is a nice perspective, though a bit flawed..
A G4/1mb cache will WAY WAY WAY outperform a G3/900/256k or 512kcache unit
for issues like video editing, photo resizing, rendering, etc. basically any
time a large amount of math work is done, the processor needs a lot of space for
temporarily
I feel that all this talk of the iBooks and G3 units as useful only for
light this and that is nonsense. Only a few short years ago, G3 chips were
the top of the Mac food chain. At that time G2s were only for light so
and so. Fact is, G3s handle heavy work just fine. In some cases, the jobs
Good point. Light this and that changes over time. I remember a heavy load
on my 7300/200 was 8 audio tracks with a compressor or eq per track. That
same load on my PB 667 is very light. Heavy now is ~24 tracks, compressor,
delay or eq on every track, a ton of edits and automation, and a real
