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  • [quote]Originally posted by THT: [qb]Originally posted by rickag: Has IBM actually manufactured a 1GHz part yet? Or are any in existence just prototypes. And if they have actual production parts @ 1 GHz who has bought them?? No, as far as I…
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Bodhi: I bought an iBook 600 when it came out. Finally an iBook at a good speed and 100MHz bus. Sold it after three months. My Powerbook G4 550 runs X MUCH better than the iBook 600 could ever. The G4 is supposed t…
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by cowerd: BFD. Where are the Aqua G3/G4 benchmarks? Perhaps you mean Quartz, in which case only chip speed is going help. Crappy application performance is the biggest drawback to OSX right now. It's more than just ch…
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Bodhi: I have one word for you and it's the biggest and most important thing that is accelerated for Altivec that makes the biggest difference between the G3 and G4: AQUA And you are one of Apple's favorite cus…
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg: Now that the iMac uses the G4, we're going to see lot's more apps optimized for Altivec. I'd rather see a G4 iBook than a G3 iBook, but I suppose I would settle for a G3 iBook if I had to. It's not my f…
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Scooterboy: How does a 1 Ghz G3 with 512 KB Level 2 cache, 150 or 200 Mhz bus iBook grab ya? I'd buy one. Would Altivec be needed, or is there that much of a performance hit without it? OS X runs fine on my iBook 600 …
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by gumby5647: With all those improvements that they are doing to it.... it really wouldn't be a "G3" anymore now would it? G stands for Generation... This is a whole new generation of PowerPC. Esp. if they put a SIM…
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Bodhi: Too bad that by January Apple will most likely not be using G3's anymore. I think they will be for some time still-- only when the PowerBook goes to the G5 will the iBook move up from the G3, and Apple stills s…
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
  • You're worried about G3s not reaching 1.5GHz and think Apple will drop it because it won't be fast enough? IBM has 1GHz G3s now, right now, and we're only using 600MHz parts in the iBooks at the moment. There are x86 laptops over 1GHz right now.…
    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002
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    in Post-2002 IBM G3 Specs Comment by troi April 2002