[CUBE] OT: pismo vs ibook

[Hal]

I probably would have gotten the G3/900 rather than the G4/500 had it 
been available when I bought my upgrade. One thing to remember is the 
fact that the G3 only has a 512k cache, rather than the 1MB on the 
G3/500 stock or the G4/500. I'm sure that running at full processor 
speed help a lot, but more cache is better for some apps. VPC, in 
particular, runs better on CPUs with more cache.

Either way, IMHO, Powerlogix Pismo upgrades rock.

good luck!
-Hal

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 12:16 PM, Robert Jagitsch wrote:

> Even if G4 500 was faster on Altivec by some degree, unless your needs 
> are extremely specialized you probably won't use Altivec more than say 
> 5% of the time. The faster clock speed 95% of the time is a much more 
> substantial factor in overall performance. You'd have to be running 
> Photoshop filters that utilize Altivec virtually all the time. And in 
> our tests, the faster clock speed more than makes up for Altivec 
> because the Altivec unit is running at 5/9th the speed (not to mention 
> the L2 cache running at 2/9th.)
>
> R