On Thursday 02 August 2001 01:19, Sven wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:43:42PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > I have to second Bastien, Its right under say a celleron 300a for > > > performance....maybe....and thats a big maybe. That said, its still > > > plenty > > huh, on what do you base this affirmation ? > > or do you compare it with an overclocked celeron 300 to 450 or something > such ? > > or is it a desktop system with a faster system, faster disks, etc, ... > > or are you using intel optimized programs for benchmarking ? > > comparing a 500Mhz G3 to a 300MHz Celeron hardly seems right to me, but > then i did not really do any tests.
Hmmm, nothing truely official I guess test wise. I own a dual PII 233, k6-266, PII300, Cell 300a(over clocked at times, but not at the moment), Athalon 800, PIII 450, Sparc 20(dual 55mhz), U1 170. I have owned and gotten rid of quite a few more...including a number of laptops. Upon which I have run linux on all of them. My opinion...and yes, let me emphasize _opinion_, is that my iBook2 _seems_ to perform at about the level of a Cell 300a desktop across a wide range of tasks. But I would probably give the edge to the Celleron. I would like to state that this does not disapoint me at all. As I said I have owned several laptops and they all perform at about 50% or less than what an equivilant<sp?> desktop would. I think the iBook2 is great, it may be the best money I have ever spent on a computer. Just dont expect it to be some super fast super computer. John
