[Duo2400] Re: Choice between 2400 and 2300

[John Acuff]

On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 09:44 AM, Larry Friedman 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.

I might be a bit late with this, and I'm not positive, but my 
understanding of this is that the 200 series board was not optimized 
for the PowerPC architecture. Apparently Apple simply modified the 
board to accept the PPC instead of designing a new board for the chip. 
Basically they took a shortcut to get a PPC Duo on the market as 
quickly as possible.
We just had a thread about this on the Newtontalk list, and this is 
what I remember from it, so it might not be 100% correct
John

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