My family went from the screaming fast Performa 5200 CD running at a blazing 75 Mhz with 750 MB of disk space and 32 MB of RAM to a 733MHz Powermac G4 with 40 GB of HD space and 640 MB of RAM.
I find it amazing that I could fit the entire contents of my last hard drive in to the RAM of the new machine not including the System and formatting of course.
I had to think about this for a second.....Commodore 16k to Performa 180mz with a whopping 16megs of RAM. I bought the one with the bigger hard drive 4.6gigs.
I went from a Mac Classic (68000 8 mhz, 4 mb RAM, 40 mb HD) to a Performa 5300 (PowerPC 100 mhz, 16 mb RAM, 800 mb HD). The Performa was a horrible computer that crashed constantly (OS 7.5), but the difference with the Classic so big...
They have all been pretty big. From an 8 mhz SE to a 25 mhz Quadra to a 333 mhz G3. The next will be to a duel G5 2 mhz or 2.5 mhz. This will be the biggest leap in numbers, but I'm not sure about performance.
From a Sinclair Spectrum 48K with a tape drive to a first generation IBM PC with a floppy drive. I was able to load and save 48KB of data or more in less than 3-5 minutes. P.S.> I still miss my old tape recorder with variable speed control that made the spectrum games load a little faster. Of course the tone control had to be just right...
Using my first PPC system was a nice step up, but the iMac's speed has proved far more useful to me. After a couple of years, that 603e system wasn't really tolerable, unlike this indestructible iMac.
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Dual 2GHz PowerMac G5 (rev b)
1.5GB RAM
160GB HDD
ATI 9600 XT
AirPort Extreme
BT+Apple Wirless
Keyboard & Mouse
I was previously a PC user..
I find it amazing that I could fit the entire contents of my last hard drive in to the RAM of the new machine not including the System and formatting of course.
Originally posted by Stream This
Hello all. I was just wandering what was you largest jump in performance.
Viagra.
No j/k. Actually it was from a 400Mhz Dell POS to an 800Mhz eMac (my first Mac).
They have all been pretty big. From an 8 mhz SE to a 25 mhz Quadra to a 333 mhz G3. The next will be to a duel G5 2 mhz or 2.5 mhz. This will be the biggest leap in numbers, but I'm not sure about performance.
Originally posted by durandal
Hmm... guess 't was the upgrade from a Performa 5200/75 (PPC 603, 75Mhz) to the original iMac (G3, 233Mhz)...
Not bad
That is what i'd call a huge leap though
Originally posted by Mac Voyer
Dial-up to broadband.
btw OT
Originally posted by Beige_G3
The next will be to a duel G5 2 mhz or 2.5 mhz. This will be the biggest leap in numbers, but I'm not sure about performance.
dual 2 mhz, huh, wow!
Got lazy cutting and pasting
make that 2 or 2.5 GHz!
Originally posted by Beige_G3
ooopps
Got lazy cutting and pasting
make that 2 or 2.5 GHz!
hehe, i understood it
The second biggest jump in performance was from my Powerbook Ti (400Mhz, 512MB RAM) to a Windows XP Centrino (1.3Ghz, 768MB RAM).
Third: from the Amiga to a IIsi (20Mhz, 3MB RAM, 40MB HD!), fourth: from a Powerbook 5300 (100Mhz, 24MB RAM) to a Wallstreet (233Mhz, 96MB RAM).
The next jump will be from the Centrino to a Powerbook G5 (64Bit, 2Ghz, 1.5GB RAM, 80GB HD, hopefully)
Originally posted by Mac Voyer
Dial-up to broadband.
Score here also
34kb/s -> 31 Mbit/s
Umax C600 (240 MHz 603e)
iMac DV SE (500 MHz G3)
Using my first PPC system was a nice step up, but the iMac's speed has proved far more useful to me. After a couple of years, that 603e system wasn't really tolerable, unlike this indestructible iMac.