[JasonY01]

Hi I'm in the market to replace my titanium powerbook and I was wondering if any could give me some input on if there is really any signifigant PERFORMANCE difference with the 1GHz vs. the 1.33GHz. I have seen the 1GHz priced at $2400 lowest and its looks good but if the 1.33 really offers that big of a difference other than 20gb more hd space. SO money really isn't an issue but performance is.

[Podolsky]

I have heard and read elsewhere that the 133 is about 20% faster. I opted for the 133 becasue I hope to keep it for 3 years....and the cost difference is for me justified.

[xylon]

I've had no experience with the Rev. B PowerBooks, so I'm in no position to contrast the two. What I can say is that my Rev. A (1 Ghz) has yet to hiccup with the workload I've thrown at it. It just shrugs and then rips through the work. A typically heavy load would include batch processing a ton of high quality (7-8 MB a piece) files in Photoshop in the background will doing minor text/web editing in Dreamweaver. The performance in Dreamweaver declines slightly, but it's not quite significant. I have batch processed huge files (somewhere between 100-300 MB a piece) in Photoshop during which I just had to sit back and let the machine do it's thing.

Like Podolsky, I also buy machines with the intent of keeping them around for 3 to 5 years. I still have my old Lombard which I used up until summer of last year. I couldn't do the same things (batch processes in Photoshop) as I can with my 17", but because I maintained it it lasted me until I finally caved in and bought a new machine. I guess that's a little background about my computer use to give you an idea of how I use my machines. Hope all that info helps.

[acadian]

Test 17" rev A 17" rev B

PS 82 68 (lower)
CPU 301 214 (lower)
Quake 95 106 (higher)
Cine 1.8 10.6 (higher)
AE 1597 1196 (lower)

[iohead]

Originally posted by JasonY01:
Hi I'm in the market to replace my titanium powerbook and I was wondering if any could give me some input on if there is really any signifigant PERFORMANCE difference with the 1GHz vs. the 1.33GHz. I have seen the 1GHz priced at $2400 lowest and its looks good but if the 1.33 really offers that big of a difference other than 20gb more hd space. SO money really isn't an issue but performance is.

This has been discussed aplenty before. Look here, for example:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?threadid=185925

There *IS* a justifiable performance difference between the 1.33 and the 1.0.

-A