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Pila · Jun 18, 2003, 02:31 AM

My tibook (NEVER, NEVER buy a Rev A apple thing) has reached its end so I tried to switch to something else.

I don't need neither the power of G4 (I'm not a graphic people) nor to cook my legs with a burning aluminium portable grill (so I discarded 12" PB)

I took a 900 Mhz ibook and I was very luckey beacuse Apple reduced (only here in Europe) prices on ibook of about 200 Euros just tha day they shipped me...

So I took a 900 Mhz 12" ibook, 40 Gb HD, Combo with 640 Mb RAM and Airport just for the price of a plain ibook.

I had it from a week and I completly satisfied. Battery last forever (from 3 to 3 and 1/2 hours), Quartz Extreme is activated, and G3 900 Mhz is very fast, also in strong compiling.

This is Xbench results:

Results 61.81
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0
System Version 10.2.6
Physical RAM 640 MB
Model PowerBook4,3
Processor PowerPC G3 @ 900 MHz
Version 750FX v2.3
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 900 MHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
Video Card ATY,RageM7
Drive Type Hitachi IC25N040ATMR04-0
CPU Test 97.94
GCD Recursion 90.11 3.52 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 80.54 271.49 Mflop/sec
Floating Point Library 140.47 6.31 Mops/sec
Thread Test 69.34
Computation 56.13 452.22 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 90.66 1.14 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 35.57
System 29.89
Allocate 159.26 53.70 Kalloc/sec
Fill 24.49 140.45 MB/sec
Copy 18.77 93.87 MB/sec
Stream 43.93
Copy 46.09 201.54 MB/sec
Scale 46.28 201.92 MB/sec
Add 41.01 186.60 MB/sec
Triad 42.80 188.08 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 80.51
Line 83.42 2.12 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 74.49 5.24 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 92.60 2.13 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 93.07 1.01 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 66.00 1.08 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 62.60
Spinning Squares 62.60 43.81 frames/sec
User Interface Test 67.66
Elements 67.66 23.02 refresh/sec
Disk Test 57.68
Sequential 62.52
Uncached Write 59.00 25.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 58.44 23.78 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 82.48 12.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 56.20 24.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 53.54
Uncached Write 49.03 0.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 52.45 12.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 53.65 0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.22 11.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]

At last 12" format is very very portable and it looks good (IMHO better than previous translucent).

Bye

Sosa · Jun 21, 2003, 03:19 PM

Originally posted by Pila:

I had it from a week and I completly satisfied. Battery last forever (from 3 to 3 and 1/2 hours), Quartz Extreme is activated, and G3 900 Mhz is very fast, also in strong compiling.
Bye

Ah.. 3 hours on a new iBook battery? That seems low. I think the new iBook batteries at first should give you close to 6 hours. Ar at least mine did. It is down to 3.5 hours after 10 months of use.

furi · Jun 21, 2003, 07:40 PM

what did you do with your powerbook? i'm interested in buying it

billybob128 · Jun 22, 2003, 08:28 AM

Ah.. 3 hours on a new iBook battery? That seems low. I think the new iBook batteries at first should give you close to 6 hours. Ar at least mine did. It is down to 3.5 hours after 10 months of use.

yeah but it depends on the settings i usually get 3-4 hrs on mine but turn contrast down and stuff like that i can get 5-6...