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Posted: Fri Apr 20th, 2012 21:11 |
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If you wait for the coming new generation MacBooks you will be able to buy one and use it for six months then sell it for very close to what you paid If you don't like it then you will have lost very little The iBook g4 is a completely different, long since deprecated, processor family stuck on an operating system several generations back In it's day this OS was great, but now.... Visit http://lowendmac.com/ for useful info on coping with a seven+ year old Mac FYI (most recent version of the iBook G4, from mactracker) Original OS Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8D37) Later OS Mac OS X 10.4.4 (8G32) Maximum OS Mac OS X 10.5.8 Processor Speed 1.33 (12.1-inch) or 1.42 (14.1-inch) GHz Number of Cores 1 Cache 64 KB L1, 512k on-chip (1:1) L2 System Bus 133 (12.1-inch) or 142 (14.1-inch) MHz Benchmarks 1.33 GHz: 689, 1.42 GHz: 774 Graphics Card ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 Graphics Memory 32 MB Hard Drive Interface Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) Note the benchmark score. Now look at the scores of The current MacBook pro below; Processor Intel Core i5 or Core i7 (2435M, 2640M) ("Sandy Bridge") Processor Speed 2.4 GHz (Core i5) or 2.8 GHz (Core i7) Architecture 64-bit Number of Cores 2 Cache 3 MB (2.4 GHz) 4 MB (2.8 GHz) shared L3 System Bus -- Benchmarks 2.4 GHz: 5912, 2.8 GHz: 7086 Good luck with it Last edited on Fri Apr 20th, 2012 21:27 by Doug ____________________ Recent & Popular posts ProCapture | Genius on Demand Blog |
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