… and here are the equivalent screen shots for the PowerBook G4: Here are the relevant configuration screen shots for the G4 Cube: As the icing on this particular cake, the graphics cards are grossly mismatched as well: a 128 MB ATI 9700 in the PowerBook, but only a 32 MB nVidia GeForce 2 in the Cube. 100 MHz), AND there is more of it, and finally the disk technology is 5 years younger than its peer on the G4 Cube. The CPU is nearly 40% faster, the RAM is more than five times as fast (533 MHz vs. The PowerBook should be the clear winner. Both were loaded with Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard and so a fair fight seemed in the offing.Īt first glance, this should be a case of “no contest”. using a more formal but more artificial benchmarking suite like GeekBench. Since I am already in possession of a G4 Cube that had been upgraded to a 1.2 GHz G4 by the seller, I thought it might be interesting to benchmark the performance of these two G4s using real world applications, vs. As regular readers of this blog will know, I have recently acquired a 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4, model A1138.
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