> It looks like a really nice machine and after checking geekbench, I discovered the G4 1.67Ghz actually scores only 100-140+ points behind my Acer.
Are you comparing Geekbench 2 scores to Geekbench 3 results? (Any powerbook score would have to be Geekbench 2, 3 is intel only.) Results from the two tests are *not* directly comparable, at all.
Recently I picked an old Thinkpad T43 out of the garbage as a possible "upgrade" to my even older Dell D600 linux beater; the T43 is basically a contemporary of the last Powerbook G4s, early 2005 vintage with a 1.8Ghz Pentium M. Two points about that:
#1: On Geekbench 2 the T43 slaughters the Powerbook 1.67Ghz G4, 1524 to 966:
Thinkpad: https://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/998977
Thinkpad: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/991585
#2: The Geekbench 3 score(s) for the same Thinkpad are only 126/232:
https://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/2374670
IE, about 1/10th as high as the Geekbench 2 scores. I can't possibly believe that any Acer bought last year, not matter how craptastic, can possibly be even remotely in the same ballpark as a Powerbook G4 considering it gets its rear whupped by Intel laptops of the *same age*.
Are you comparing Geekbench 2 scores to Geekbench 3 results? (Any powerbook score would have to be Geekbench 2, 3 is intel only.) Results from the two tests are *not* directly comparable, at all.
Recently I picked an old Thinkpad T43 out of the garbage as a possible "upgrade" to my even older Dell D600 linux beater; the T43 is basically a contemporary of the last Powerbook G4s, early 2005 vintage with a 1.8Ghz Pentium M. Two points about that:
#1: On Geekbench 2 the T43 slaughters the Powerbook 1.67Ghz G4, 1524 to 966:
Thinkpad: https://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/998977
Thinkpad: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/991585
#2: The Geekbench 3 score(s) for the same Thinkpad are only 126/232:
https://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/2374670
IE, about 1/10th as high as the Geekbench 2 scores. I can't possibly believe that any Acer bought last year, not matter how craptastic, can possibly be even remotely in the same ballpark as a Powerbook G4 considering it gets its rear whupped by Intel laptops of the *same age*.