mac processor speed

[Pete Peters]

I agree that amount of RAM is the biggest factor here, but wouldn't the
video chipset/amount of VRAM also affect display performance?

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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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> 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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