G4 dual or G5 single?

[zmttoxics]

Actually, not true. My brand new 2.4ghz al macbook with 4 gigs of ram versus my 2.0ghz dual core G5 tower with 3 gigs of ram?

Essentially equal. In fact, the macbook stutters on some video files that run smooth as silk on the G5.

I just got a broken Quad G5 and I can't wait to fix it up.

Lies. My 2.16 macbook with 4 gigs of ram destroys my 2.0 G5 with 6 gigs of ram.

I want to see some benchmarks (like geekbench).

 

[Cosmoza]

Great. Just great. The Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128b (flashed PC card) seems to be dead somehow. Giving out graphics errors even i lowered the speed of GPU and mem to -25% still the same. I'll put the GeForce back... too bad, really.

Looking for At Radeon X800 XT (AGP)!

 

[Cosmoza]

Lies. My 2.16 macbook with 4 gigs of ram destroys my 2.0 G5 with 6 gigs of ram.

I want to see some benchmarks (like geekbench).

My Macbook (2.2/4Gb/santarosa) gives about 3000 points on Geekbench 2.2, and Powermac G5 1.8Ghz/512mb about 1000 so there's quite a leap.

 

[California]

Lies. My 2.16 macbook with 4 gigs of ram destroys my 2.0 G5 with 6 gigs of ram.

I want to see some benchmarks (like geekbench).

"Lies" not really. Different perception, probably.

I usually use my ancient but beloved copy of Word X (can't stand 2004/2008); final cut pro and online. I don't stress it out that much but I cannot tell the difference between macbook and G5. Could also be that the G5 has a faster hard drive; that really sped things up for me. I'll let you know when i get a 500 7200.4 in the macbook. A lot of the geekbench scores are for things I rarely use.

 

[smchan]

I think i am hardware geek/collector. Still looking to buy G4 Cube someday! But no matter what, always can find user for older Mac-hardware if need to get rid of some of them. Not been a problem so far.. (have owned dozen old macs over the years).

I hope my wife doesn't see this. I have an attic full of Apple & Apple-related relics that she wants me to throw out. They include Apple II+, IIc, & IIe, Mac IIcx (my first Macintosh) & IIfx both with System 6, and a NeXT.

At least I got rid of my Taligent books.

Sam

 

[Cosmoza]

My Macbook (2.2/4Gb/santarosa) gives about 3000 points on Geekbench 2.2, and Powermac G5 1.8Ghz/512mb about 1000 so there's quite a leap.

I just need to get some more memory to run Aperture 2 and i guess, CS4 won't run either? That's interesting to compare. Lightroom 2 is very lightweight coding so it seems to run well even on 466mhz G4.