[Ti] New 15" 1.25 GHz PowerBook

[John Griffin]

Obrecht, Jerry A typed this message on 9/17/03 10:27 AM:

> If I recall right, my 1GHz TiBook has a 1MB L3 cache, where-as the new 15"
> AlBooks do not.  I wonder what the comparative performance of a 1GHz processor
> with an L3 cache versus a 1.25GHz processor without L3?
> 
> Jerry

The 15" 1 Ghz Ti Powerbook has 256K L2 cache and 1M L3 cache.

The 15" 1.25 Ghz Al Powerbook has zero L3 cache and 1M L2 cache.

Perhaps some hardware heads here could fill us in on what this means in
terms of performance issues.

jg