G4
vs G3, 733 MHz vs 700 MHz, Power Mac vs iMac - A Performance
Report - We have received numerous requests to compare
the performance of the new iMacs to the Quicksilver towers.
Below we take a first stab at this, comparing the top of the
line iMac (700 MHz), to the bottom of the line QuickSilver
Power Mac (733 MHz)
Three
Macintosh Operating Systems Go Head To Head - Mac OS 9.2.1
vs Classic Mac OS 9.2.1 vs Mac OS 10.1 - From a performance
standpoint, the main advantage Mac OS X has over previous
versions of the Mac OS, is the ability to utilize the processor(s)
more effecently. It does this two ways. The first is a better
multitasking scheme, which allows you to run multiple applications,
either on one processor, or across multiple processors. The
other is more developed multithreading support
More
On Multithreading & Multitasking - How It Works And What
It Does In OS X To Make Computing More Efficient - Last
week we posted an article on how Multitasking and Multithreading
can better utilize a computers processing potential. We asked
several questions about multithreading, such as does it require
dual processors or can multithreading occur if just one processor
is present. Below we post some of the informative and thoughtful
responses we received
The
Hundred Dollar Price Break On Certain PowerForce Upgrade Cards
- PowerLogix's Price Cuts And The Price/Performance Equation
- PowerLogix has knocked up to $100 off the upgrade cards
listed below. The entry level G3/350 for PowerPC 604e based
machines is an especially good bargain at $149. PowerLogix
has discontinued its G3 upgrades for Zif based Macs but do
have a G4 version for these machines
Now
That Is More Like It - What A Difference A Little Backside
Cache Makes - A Performance Comparison Of The Quicksilver
G4/733 And G4/867 - we have got our hands on a Quicksilver
867. Where the 733 has only a on chip cache running at full
processor speed, the 867 not only has a faster clock-speed
but also has the same 256K on chip cache (again at full processor
speed) plus 2 full MB of backside cache running at one fourth
the processor speed. On a purely MHz basis the 867 is only
18% faster. Yet in many of the tests it turned in anywhere
between a 24% - 145% speed improvement over its younger sibling
The
iBook May Be Cute And Inexpensive, But The PowerBook G4 Blows
It Away - A Performance Review - In almost all of our
tests the G4 PowerBooks with their faster bus speed (100MHz)
and larger backside cache, greatly outclassed the iBook with
its paltry 256K of cache and bus speed of only 66MHz
Five
Days And Counting, Get Them While They're Hot - Metabox Upgrades
And The Price/Performance Equation - Metabox is a relative
new-comer to the shores of the US. They are a German company
now selling their joeCARDs in North America. They have announced
a special rebate, of up to $80, on many of their upgrade cards
for Apple G3 and first generation G4 machines, and for certain
pre-G3 Power Macs and Clones. The rebate offer ends on the
15th of December.
For
Owners Of Power Mac 6100s The Time For G3 Envy May Be Over
- The Price/Performance Equation - NewerTech just a few short
weeks after dropping the price on their MAXpowr PDS G3/300-333MHz
upgrade card for the 6100 class of Power Macs by $100, has
dropped the price again
A
Gigahertz PowerPC Chip Coming To A Mac Near You? Three And
Four Gigahertz Models To Follow Shortly? - IBM will be
presenting a paper describing a complete PowerPC processor
that runs at 1 gigahertz, at the International Solid State
Circuits Conference that opened Monday in San Francisco. IBM
says that these gigahertz chips (that's a billion cycles per
second to you and me) should reach production status in the
second half of this year.
Newer's
Winning G3 Upgrade For The 6100 Series Of Machines - A Review
- It was indeed a revelation when Newer released their upgrade
cards for first generation Power Mac's. Finally those of us
who were as they say, financially limited could hope for access
to true G3 power without having to part with either our machines
or large amounts of cash!
PowerBook
1400 Owners Once Again Have An Upgrade Option - Covering
Sonnet's announcement of a G3/333 uprade card for PowerBook
1400 owners. Includes benchmarks from older PowerBook 1400
upgrades to give you a taste of what to expect. The future
looks bright!
Turning
Your G3 Computer Into A Screaming Beast! - Paul sent us
in his results from upgrading a G3/233 with a Sonnet Encore
G3/500 processor and a 13.6 7200 RPM Quantum hard drive. The
numbers are impressive!
XLR8
Your Mac And Accelerate Your Mac - The New Price Performance
Equation! - XLR8 has reduced the prices of their CPU upgrade
cards to coincide with the start of Macworld. We take a look
at the performance of each card and compare it to the performance
of the machines they are intended for. We also look at the
price/performance ratio of each card - how much each unit
of performance will cost you.
iMac
Clone vs The Real Thing - A Performance Evaluation - we
compare the putative performance of Future Power's iMac knock
off, the E-Power, to the genuine article. However we think
the same day Apple sends a note thanking Future Power for
the flattery, Apple's lawyer's will hand the company a summons
- with a smile of course.
A
Closer Look at XLR8's Cache Boosting Software - We take
a second, closer, look at XLR8's software package that allows
you to bump the speed of your backside cache. We ran MacBench
and "real world" tests with various cache settings.
Our results were surprising.
Sonnet
Has Cut The Prices Of It's CPU Cards Again, But What Does
That Mean To You In Terms Of Performance/Price? - Isn't
it fun to watch a manufacture whack a $100 or so off some
of their high-end cards every few weeks or so? Sonnet has
stepped up to the plate once again with their G3 cards for
NuBus based Macs. We provide you with the low-down and have
a couple of handy graphs to show you how their cards will
perform in the machines they are intended for and a price
performance graph comparing the cards.
A
20% Speed Improvement For Your G3 Machine Though Simple Software!
- XLR8 have improved their Cache "speed boosting"
control panel to include Apple's G3 machines and Macs upgraded
with G3 upgrade cards from all the major manufacturers. We
have the scoop and some preliminary benchmarks.
How
Much Difference Does Having a Big "Backside" Cache
Make - A Performance Review. Mike Juhaus asks - "How
much of a difference does the size of your backside cache
make? We were curious about this and the loan of two Sonnet
Crescendo 300Mhz processor upgrade cards, one with 512K of
backside cache and one with 1MB, gave us a chance to run some
tests and find out. "
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