Originally Posted by
Anonymous Coward
Interesting. I have two G4 Macs; one an iMac the other a PowerBook. Both have 1 GHz processors. The iMac has 1.5GB RAM. The PowerBook has half that. The PowerBook has 512 KB L2 cache, the iMac half that. Bus speed on both is 133 MHz. Both have serial ATA hard drives.
On a purely subjective basis and contrary to what you might expect from a machine with half the RAM, the PowerBook always feels much faster than the iBook. Could the amount of L2 cache make that much difference?