yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #167 - 10 msgs

[Kevin Lindeman]

A 333 megaherts G3 is comparable  to approxamately a 400 to 500 
megaherts Pentium 2. An ya, more memory will help!

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Kevin Lindeman
kjl007@pacifier.com
http://home.pacifier.com/~stevel/

> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 22:09:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ryan Vuori <rvuori@yahoo.com>
> Subject: mac processor speed
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> hiya. this is a general question about macintosh but this is the best 
> place i can ask it!
>
> so okay i have a mac powerbook with a g3 333 processor. i only bought 
> it because the hardware features battery life and such were better than 
> the same pc laptop. oh yeah it has 64mb of memory. so yeah i have this 
> laptop and i don't know much about macs. so i'm comparing it to an old 
> pc i have which has an oldie amd k62 300 proc in it and it has 128mb of 
> memory. the mac laptop runs yellow dog linux v2.2 and the pc runs red 
> hat 7. so i'm seeing that the pc is smoking the laptop for some 
> reason!?! i don't have any hard data to say that x is faster than y but 
> trust me it is. menus on kde seem to fly on the pc compared to the mac.
>
> yes one has more memory but i don't think 64mb will make *that* much 
> difference! one is a 300mhz and the other is a 333mhz. so shouldn't the 
> mac be faster? or doesn't it work liek that?
>
> so what is a g3 333 comparable to in the pc world? i would like to know 
> if there is a way to optimize yellow dog linux so it runs faster than 
> it runs now. it's just too slow
>
> ideas??
>
>
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> <P>hiya. this is a general question about macintosh but this is the 
> best place i can ask it! <IMG 
> src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys/f.gif"></P>
> <P>so okay i have a mac powerbook with a g3 333 processor. i only 
> bought it because the hardware features battery life and such were 
> better than the same pc laptop. oh yeah it has 64mb of memory. so yeah 
> i have this laptop and i don't know much about macs. so i'm comparing 
> it to an old pc i have which has an oldie amd k62 300 proc in it and it 
> has 128mb of memory. the mac laptop runs yellow dog linux v2.2 and the 
> pc runs red hat 7. so i'm seeing that the pc is smoking the laptop for 
> some reason!?! i don't have any hard data to say that x is faster than 
> y but trust me it is. menus on kde seem to fly on the pc compared to 
> the mac.</P>
> <P>yes one has more memory but i don't think 64mb will make *that* much 
> difference! one is a 300mhz and the other is a 333mhz. so shouldn't the 
> mac be faster? or doesn't it work liek that?</P>
> <P>so what is a g3 333 comparable to in the pc world? i would like to 
> know if there is a way to optimize yellow dog linux so it runs faster 
> than it runs now. it's just too slow <IMG 
> src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys/e.gif"></P>
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