For just about anything where speed is important, the G4 800 will be faster. OS X is heavily G4 optimized, and the G4 iBook has a Radeon 9200 in it.Originally posted by: iKwak
Hello guys.
How much of a difference between a 800mhz G4 iBook and a 900mhz G3 iBook?
Which is faster and in what category (faster in games, loading programs, and etc.)?
Originally posted by: drag
DDR realy doesn't help out G4's that much. They have a built in limitation to the design that robs them from the ability to benifit from fast memory speeds.
Probably why they couldn't keep up clock wise. As low end power-frugal chips they work out nicely.
Of course the G5's are much better and have memory bandwidth much higher then x86 offerings. Even the quad pumped new 3.2mhz can't match it.(16GB/s 1ghz (ddr) FSB bandwidth (8GB/s per proccessor) and 6.4GB's memory bandwidth(dual channel 400mhz (ddr) vs 6.4GB's for the quad pumped stuff, and Xeon proccessors would have to share this between them)....
ANYWAYS. (sorry for the diversion. Pentium4's are still a bit faster, but not by much especially compared to G4's)
Get the 12 inch 800MHZ G4 Ibook.
First off, G4's have the altivec stuff that makes them better performers with games and such then G3's
Clock for clock they are a improvement over the G3's
The Ibook is new, it's not going to be beat up and replacements from apple for defects would be easier.
The new Ibook has a 9200 mobility radeon card, which is much faster then the older ibook's stuff.
So the newer Ibook is quite a improvement over the older one, even if it is minus 100mhz...
Originally posted by: drag
First off, G4's have the altivec stuff that makes them better performers with games and such then G3's
Clock for clock they are a improvement over the G3's
The Ibook is new, it's not going to be beat up and replacements from apple for defects would be easier.
The new Ibook has a 9200 mobility radeon card, which is much faster then the older ibook's stuff.
So the newer Ibook is quite a improvement over the older one, even if it is minus 100mhz...