At 10:44 AM 12/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >So I've heard from several people that the 2300c is slower than the 280c, >anyone know why this is? Being almost the same machine (the 2300 has the >internal IDE drive which I always thought was faster) with the faster >processor, I'd have thought the 2300c was the faster Duo. The primary issue is a lack of L2 cache. A PPC chip really really needs L2 cache to work properly, Even the PowerMac 6100 had L2 cache. Scott Holder