[G4] G4 dual 450 vs G5 1.6 ?

[Mel]

You would see a huge increase in performance. The improvements in bus 
speed and memory bandwidth alone would make it obvious, even without 
faster processors. Add the faster processors in and it should be 
amazing. If you can afford it, you should spend the extra 400 bucks to 
get the 1.8GHz. It has the PCI-X slots for faster PCI cards (e.g. DV 
capture) and uses the speedier PC3200 RAM as opposed to PC2700 RAM on 
the base model, plus you can install 8GB (!) RAM in the 1.8 vs. 4 GB in 
the base model. It comes with 512 MB RAM also. That would be worth the 
extra to me if I were buying one (drool).
Mel

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 01:30  PM, Jack wrote:

> i currently have a G4 dual 450 (1.5 gig of ram), thinking it's time 
> for a new computer saw the G5 1.6 ghz.
> I spend most of my time on Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and 
> Dreamweaver.  How much of a improvement will I see in the G5 1.6?
> what do you guys think?
>
> Jack
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