[wvx]

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The internal drives on the G4s are faster of course than the internal drives on the iBook. If I do this again I would probably go from the same external firwire drive to my iPod on all machines.

From my experience machines with little cache do terrible encoding video, but I was surprised that a 3 year old Sawtooth 450 was almost as fast as my brand new iBook and also the iMac is a cache-lacking machine also... strange.

[hadocon]

Very interesting. Thanx for the info! These results show why I chose a AL15" 1.25 instead of an iBook G4. I do a lot of video work and from your chart we can see that mp4 encoding on an iBook G4800 is just barely faster than an old G4 450... I know that the G4 450 probably has a much faster HD, but hey, that's why I BTO'd the 5400rpm drive.

Too bad the performance on my AL15" 1.25 gets a score of 0 because Apple has not made it yet...

[Kelvin]

I'm thinking of getting a Mac to try some video editing of home movies and posting short clips to the web. I'm amazed at the difference between the iMac 1ghz vs the iBook 800 G4 yet they're only 200 mhz apart in speed. What is it in the iBook that is bogging it down compared to the iMac? Would maxxing out the ram in the iBook help?

Thanks

[hadocon]

Originally posted by Kelvin:
I'm thinking of getting a Mac to try some video editing of home movies and posting short clips to the web. I'm amazed at the difference between the iMac 1ghz vs the iBook 800 G4 yet they're only 200 mhz apart in speed. What is it in the iBook that is bogging it down compared to the iMac? Would maxxing out the ram in the iBook help?

Thanks

As I noted before, HD speed will be a big factor... Remember that this benchmark is for media transcoding - this will not effect editing performance. You would only have to transcode after all the editing is done...