Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:24, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Noah John wrote:
> > the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound
> > still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was:
> > G3 500 MHz vs. i386.
> > is about an 800-933 MHz P3
> > is about a 733 MHz Athlon or P4
> > is about a GHz celeron (celeron has no b-side cache).
>
> You certainly have benchmarks to prove that ?
> The G3 in the iBook has only 128k of L2 cache, and it is slower than my
> iMac G3 400 (which has 512k of this same cache).
>
> If you want a powerhorse of a laptop, get a TiBook, or an x86 laptop.
> The x86 will give you a crappy architecture, and not much battery life.
>
> In the end the iBook's performances are more than enough for playing
> mp3s, playing quake3 in macos, do hacking, and a bit of GIMPing. DVD
> playback should be possible if we get a version of libmpeg2 that's a tad
>bit faster.
I have to second Bastien, Its right under say a celleron 300a for
performance....maybe....and thats a big maybe. That said, its still plenty
strong for most everything I do. And I really do get 4-5 hours of battery
life during normal useage. As far as dvd playback goes...its works for me
just fine. Every so often it hickups.....and we sure could use a more
efficient<sp?> libmpeg2 library....but I am not disapointed by how well it
behaves. Especialy now that Ihave a 512mb module in it. But if you are
looking for some powerhouse number cruncher...well, the iBook2 isn't it.
John
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