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Powerbook vs Macbook in processor speed

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Hamsterz

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I have an intel core 2 duo macbook (thats my mom's, but I use it), and I'm thinking about getting a powerbook off eBay. You can find em pretty cheap. How would the PPC processor compare to the intel one?

1.67 PPC G4 vs 2.0 Intel Core 2 duo
 
The Intel is not only clocked faster it is more efficient at the same clock! Double that...

2GHz Core 2 Duo = 1.67GHz G4 x6
 
My dad has an iMac G5 2.0 Ghz. I have a MBP 2.16Ghz C2D. There is no friggin comparison. His computer is SO sluggish compared to mine, even with 2GB of RAM now. I seriously would not recommend anything using the Power PC processors unless you get a steal of a deal.
 
don't buy PPC

If you can at all afford it, buy new, a MacBook, otherwise a used MacBook but WARNING only get a model that will take 4 gigs of RAM. It makes a world of difference. I have 4 gigs of RAM and I run my entire law office on it, including my secretary who connects to it directly through the internet: it has an extra monitor, over 1TB of storage, two printers, high speed scanner, and several external drives connected to it and to do that and run my software it uses just over 3 gigs of RAM. It will be hard to out grow a MacBook with 4 gigs of RAM. I have to use a G4 in the field and its painfully slow booting although if there are only 3-4 programs running at the same time, it's quite usable, but I am limiting this to business software.

Hamsterz said:
I have an intel core 2 duo macbook (thats my mom's, but I use it), and I'm thinking about getting a powerbook off eBay. You can find em pretty cheap. How would the PPC processor compare to the intel one?

1.67 PPC G4 vs 2.0 Intel Core 2 duo
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