[Monde]

I'm wondering...Would the speed difference between a fully loaded Powerbook G4 1.5 Ghz with 2GB of Ram outfitted with 128mb Ram and a 5400rpm 100gb drive compared to a 24inch iMac with 3Gb of ram upgraded to a 2.33 C2D processor 500GB HD and the upgraded video card.

Would it be anything like the MacBook C2D 2.0Ghz-maxed out? I've found this to be zippy compared to the powerbook, but not as blazing fast as I thought it might be. Anyone have some experience on these machines? I'm looking into putting a iMac into my office for light video editing, Graphics work in Adobe's product suite.

[bearcatrp]

I have a powerbook 1.33 ghz G4 and a 24 inch iMac. The iMac stomps the crap out of my powerbook easily. The powerbook has 1.25 gb ram and the iMac has 2gb ram. Not sure but I believe the macbook uses shared graphics memory which slows it down some.
Randy

[JonoMarshall]

C2D owns G5... let alone G4... no comparison!

[mfbernstein]

The iMac will be faster in all respects (disk, video, processor especially), and by a large margin on processor and disk-related tasks. The MacBook will be faster than the PowerBook processor-wise, but for disk-intensive operations it'll be about the same, and graphics won't be any better. 3D graphics will be much slower. As for iMac vs. MacBook, processor-wise, the difference isn't big, but the iMac has a substantially faster disk, which may make a big difference when it comes to video-editing and the like. Depending on the app, the graphics card will also help.

What will make a big difference for the MacBook and iMac is native apps: Adobe CS3 is vastly faster than CS2 on Intel Macs.

[Monde]

Hey Guys, thanks for the helpful information. The only hold up now is what lays around the corner for the iMac. Me thinks, I will be upgrading shortly.