[G4] To buy or not to buy? This is my question....

[Kunga]

Good points Vern. I agree. For me the booting into 9 and 2MB cache are 
worth more than they may be to others. You are probably right for most. 
I saw benchmarks that indicated the 2MB L3 cache made a big performance 
difference - sometimes huge. But I can't cite any now for lack of 
memory where.

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First Kunga wrote:
>> This is a time when one has to be very careful a dealer is not 
>> dumping the early 2003 dual 1.25 GHz FW800 model with only 1 MB L3 
>> cache per processor for MORE MONEY. I see this happening all over the 
>> internet mail order sites. No doubt it is happening at dealers too 
>> since this new price is below what the stores paid for their inferior 
>> dual 1.25 models they are now stuck with.

Then On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 12:10  PM, Vernon LeMoignan wrote 
back:
> I agree with you for the most part, but in canadian dollars the 
> current dual 1.25 (single upgraded to dual) on apple's site is $2249 > vs
> $2050 at his local dealer. the $2050 gives you FW 800 in exchange for 
> 1MB L3 per processor instead of 2MB. In most benchmarks I've
> seen there was little difference between 1MB L3 and 2Mb L3.
>
> $2050 cdn  gets you : dual 1.25Ghz, 1MB L3 cache, FW 800, OS X boot 
> only
>
> $2249 cdn gets you :  dual 1.25 Ghz, 2MB L3, No FW 800, OS 9 and X
>
> I Still think $2050 for a new Dual 1.25 is a good deal as long as you 
> don't need OS9 booting.
>
> Vern.