Hello all. I was just wandering what was you largest jump in performance. I just went from a Lombard PowerBook (400 Mhz G3) to a Dual 1.8 G5 (rev. A).
I must say that it is damn nice to be able to run all the apps that I've wanted to run for the past few years.
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At least that felt like the biggest jump in performance - it was like a whole new world... 8)
Cheers,
C.
from: IBM pc intel 80286 2mb ram 20MB(for those who are too young to remember those were megabytes, 1/1000 of a gigabyte) HDD and dos 4-ish(I think)
to: Compaq piss-ario(my pet name for it, it broke a lot) intel pent 150 mhz 16 megs of ram, 2.5 gb hdd and windows 95 rev a
ok so the os crashed more but it was faster when it worked...
iMac rev.a 233Mhz
160MB RAM
4MB Rage II graphics
4GB Hard drive
To my currenct mac
Powermac G4 Dual 1Ghz DDR
1GB RAM
128MB GF4Ti
80GB + 20GB Hard drives.
Quite a leap, my imac couldn't play quake at 1024x768!
to
PM 8500/132 with 80MB RAM
Originally posted by Splinemodel
Radio Shack Tandy with 256k RAM
to
PM 8500/132 with 80MB RAM
To make the jump even better, I had been running the PB with a broken hinge (propped against the wall) and a power cord that would only work if plugged in the back "just so".
Of course, 8.6 hummed right along with 128 megs of RAM, but that 4 gig HD was sure getting small...
Sooooooo much of Mac OS X's perceived slowness (especially on the G3s) is due to slow disk drives.
Even my iMac DV SE is a speed demon now.
Man, I wish I could go 10 or 15k RPM!!!!!
Originally posted by johnq
Going from 4300 RPM drive to a 7200 PRM drive with my iBook.
Sooooooo much of Mac OS X's perceived slowness (especially on the G3s) is due to slow disk drives.
Even my iMac DV SE is a speed demon now.
How much memory do you have on the most affected machines? (trying to figure out if the benefit comes from "normal" access speedup or virtual memory speedup)
Originally posted by Gon
How much memory do you have on the most affected machines? (trying to figure out if the benefit comes from "normal" access speedup or virtual memory speedup)
768 on the iBook and 1GB on the iMac DV SE, so yeah it helps. Less disk access and, when it is accessed, much faster at 7200RPM.
Kinda sad that Apple could dramatically increase the default performance by upping the supplied RAM (I mean prior to BTO) and hard disk speeds. If Apple could manage to ship iBooks and iMacs with 512 or 768 for RAM and up the drives to 7200 RPM, most casual users would think they are running G5s
I mean that for 99% of the casual users that don't bother upping the RAM (and certainly don't install their own faster drives) it'd be a nice treat to give them the added performance. Not sure how it'd price out (assuming Apple could do so cheaper than now if they were to do it across the board).
It is all relative though, I know that they are still pokey compared to a G5 with 4GB of RAM and 10,000 RPM drives...but still.
Both of my Macs were out of warrantee so I felt brave enough to bump the drives up past what was suggested, although the iMac might get too hot if I ever do anything severely HDD intensive.
The difference was terrific.
The second jump was between this G3 and my dual G5. But the difference was less important ...
What's a HARD DRIVE?
You mean I don't have to have a floppy drive for the program and another one for the data. COOL!