iBook 800 peformance...?
I was thinking of buying one for my mother as a christmas present. The only G3 I Have is an old imac400 which is terrible slow in 10.2.1. How is the performance on the new iBooks? Can people who own the older 700 (sense I doubt any one has a new one yet) post about its performance in 10.2. How much slower do you think the iBook 800 would be compared to the iMac 800? ect... Basically I would love some general advice regarding iBooks.
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The new machines have a faster bus speed (still 100 mhtz?) and the new video card should be able to use QuartzExtreme features!
For the price, I can't imagine a better portable computer deal. OS X will run just fine.
<strong>I can't imagine why the new (or any recent) iBook wouldn't be adequate. I am running 10.2.1 on an old 466 iBook (66mhtz system bus). I have no problems with the speed of the OS on this machine. Including using photoshop.
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:eek: I'd never be able to run OS X on a 800x600 screen!
Except Altivec the 750 fx chip is faster at equal mhz than the 7450 especially if this one lack L3 cache. The video is faster in the i book either (the radeon 7500 is nearly twice as fast as a geforce 2 mx concerning 3 D acceleration).
The I mac and e mac line really need an update.
I'm not sure though, the Radeon 7500 is much better than the GeForce 2 MX, but I don't know about the Radeon 7500 Mobility. It might not be as good. But it's still probably better.