I would go for the 7200 i put one in my ibook g4 800 and have had no problems with it. Richard On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Steve Jones wrote: > Hi, > I'm anticipating buying a Seagate Momentus hard drive for my 1gig > ibook G4 (2nd generation, - 512 L2 cache) and am not sure which to > go for, - the 5400 or 7200. > I'd like to get the 7200 as I use the ibook for music applications, > sometimes streaming large volumes of audio data. However there may > be little advantage if there's a bottleneck elsewhere in the system. > > I'm also a bit concerned that the ibook doesn't constantly > overheat, as I can push it quite hard. > The Power Consumption in Watts are: - Read/Write/Active Idle > 2.2/2.4/1.3. I think this is a 0.5 watt overall increase on the > 5400, which still seems fairly low compared to some others. > > Any ideas greatly appreciated! > > Cheers, > Steve >