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Which :apple: is best?

Zeke D

Zeke D

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I have the following G3 iMacs:

350Mhz/512k cache - Rage128/8MB
400Mhz/512k cache - Rage128/8MB
500Mhz/256k cache - Rage128/16MB
600Mhz/256k cache - Rage128/16MB

I know the 400 is better than the 350, and I know the 600 is better than the 500, but what about the rest? I know 16MB vid is better than 8MB, and I know 512k L2 is better than 256k L2. But of all these units, which one is the best?
 
Intell

Intell

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Zeke D said:
I have the following G3 iMacs:

350Mhz/512k cache - Rage128/8MB
400Mhz/512k cache - Rage128/8MB
500Mhz/256k cache - Rage128/16MB
600Mhz/256k cache - Rage128/16MB

I know the 400 is better than the 350, and I know the 600 is better than the 500, but what about the rest? I know 16MB vid is better than 8MB, and I know 512k L2 is better than 256k L2. But of all these units, which one is the best?
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Going by just what you have posted there and assuming the colour doesn't matter, the 600Mhz one is the best.
 
Goftrey

Goftrey

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Yes, the 600 is a far better machine than the others, the family had a 600 G3 iMac years and years ago... Nice machines, I love the iMac G3's myself :D
 
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chrismacguy

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See if you told us the RAM in each we could give a better answer (A 512MB Equipped G3/400 is more useable than say a G3/700 with 128MB RAM), although with what you've said the 600 is the best. (I have a 500Mhz iMac G3 - Pretty speedy machine for non-altivec things).
 
Zeke D

Zeke D

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chrismacguy said:
See if you told us the RAM in each we could give a better answer (A 512MB Equipped G3/400 is more useable than say a G3/700 with 128MB RAM), although with what you've said the 600 is the best. (I have a 500Mhz iMac G3 - Pretty speedy machine for non-altivec things).
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Since the ram can be moved from one unit to the next, you can assume that they all have the same amount.
 
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