[Duo2400] Re: Choice between 2400 and 2300

Scott Holder ncc1701 at mindspring.com
Sat Dec 7 09:42:25 PST 2002


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



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