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Chris Newman - 22 Aug 2004 04:02 GMT

I have a B&W G3 350 Meg Powermac. Which processor is four to five times
faster that this please

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Jason - 22 Aug 2004 07:51 GMT

> I have a B&W G3 350 Meg Powermac. Which processor is four to five times
> faster that this please

You should find a Dual 1.8 G5 tower is well and truly faster than a factor of 5 over a puny G3 ;)

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Steve Jay - 26 Aug 2004 03:18 GMT

The new iMac (due September) should outstrip the G3 350 by a factor of
8, the current eMac will easily be 4 times faster, if not quite 5
times, and both will be considerably cheaper and pretty much just as
effective as the G5 1.8GHz tower (which I agree would fair scream
along compared to your venerable G3)

I also suspect that if you have any internal 3rd party PCI gear in the
G3, they'll probably be well superceded and probably better replaced
with something USB or Firewire. I tell you, I'm sooo over towers,
their only advantage is the brute force put in them, much of which
doesn't really add up to value for money.

> > I have a B&W G3 350 Meg Powermac. Which processor is four to five times
> > faster that this please
>
> You should find a Dual 1.8 G5 tower is well and truly faster than a factor of 5 over a puny G3 ;)

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Jason - 27 Aug 2004 03:02 GMT

> The new iMac (due September) should outstrip the G3 350 by a factor of
> 8, the current eMac will easily be 4 times faster, if not quite 5
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> their only advantage is the brute force put in them, much of which
> doesn't really add up to value for money.

To each his own, but I like to have as much grunt as I can, just because I am
impatient :)

That said, I'm still content with my dual 800 G4 that I bought in Oct 2001, although
sometimes, when I'm listening to mp3s, downloading and burning discs at the same time,
that I had more than 30% CPU left :)

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What model do I need