John Hughes wrote:
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).
s/128/256/
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-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
I think this summs it up: http://www.macworld.co.uk/reviews/display_groupreview.cfm?ProductID=1509&GroupReviewID=296 -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net