Old New mac Upgraded!

[yizzel]

Yeah congratz on your new improved Mac.
I managed to pickup a cheap ($200) G4 iBook last week.. It only runs at 800Mhz with 640MB Ram & wifi, and surprisingly it’s powerful enough to run World of Warcraft. So now I can quest while I’m on the loo

[zarusboy]

That is cheap! Supprisingly my mac can play the sims 2 at a fairly nice speed even though they want a faster processor for it.

[yizzel]

Yeah I lucked it on ebay. The guy I got it from is now selling the same spec ibooks for AU $438.00, 10 at a time.
It came with OSX 10.4.7 and ran a little sluggish, compared to my old trusty G3 iBook 700mhz 640MB.
I've since updated to 10.4.10 and it's running like a well oiled machine. Curiously though, my G3 boots slightly faster then my new G4.

[zarusboy]

Now that you mention it I did see a youtube video with 2 powerbooks and a macbook. 1 was a g4 and one was a g3 with 128mb of memory he put them to the test by booting and shutting them down and rendering and such.Well anyway for some reason it took the macbook the longest to shut down so I thought that was quite odd

[amon91]

Now that you mention it I did see a youtube video with 2 powerbooks and a macbook. 1 was a g4 and one was a g3 with 128mb of memory he put them to the test by booting and shutting them down and rendering and such.Well anyway for some reason it took the macbook the longest to shut down so I thought that was quite odd

Don't forget that the OS in the PowerBooks (G3 and G4) is different from the OS in the MacBook. The one that is included in the PowerBooks should be Tiger and the one that is bundled in the MacBook should be Tiger on Intel. So, we cannot compare two completely different OSes and completely different architectures.

[zarusboy]

True but aren't they based on similar architectures such as gui?

[amon91]

True but aren't they based on similar architectures such as gui?

Sure, Tiger on Intel is a port of OS X to Intel.
But the Darwin kernel is DRAMATICLY built in a completely different way.

[zarusboy]

ohhhh I get it now. I need to get some extra parts for my mac still. My display is rather wonky so I'm trying to get an older Apple Studio display with DVI to ADC adaptor for cheap but I'm not having much luck. Is there anywhere else they have displays for cheap besides ebay?

[yizzel]

I’ve seen sites that offer old Mac hardware, let google be your friend.

Yeah I’ve seen a clip on youtube comparing the boot time between a Macbook and G4 iBook. Ibook booted faster.
In my case, I think it has a lot to do with what’s installed. The G3 has a fresh, clean install of Tiger, whereas the G4 is crammed packed full of junk. It even has a complete OS9.2 installed.
I think I’ll run Xbench and do a detailed comparison…