What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #6
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PC2700 >>>>>>>> PC133
In the PC world (and for G5 computers) this is true. However, the G4 does not support a DDR bus. Hence,…
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What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #7
Virtual PC, at least in the Connectix incarnations, was optimized for 512k cache, so any machine with only 256k, whether L2 or L3, is noticeably slower running VPC than a machine w…
What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #8
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Originally posted by anaphora68:
From what I have heard L2 is much faster than L3, so you go for a higher l2 count. There is good discussion on this over at tomsh…
What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #9
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Originally posted by power142:
I have a particular program (pymol) that I run a lot that I've noticed a hit from going from Rev A 17-inch to 15-inch Albook (1.25G…
What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #10
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Originally posted by vancenase:
power142 -- doyou use the fink version or 'native' version of pymol? i'll have to do a (time) test of a revB 17" and a 15 Ti-book…
What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #11
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Originally posted by power142:
ae86_16v - I'm not 100% certain what the L3 speed is, but even if it's only 250MHz, it's still faster than the main memory speed …
What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #12
The 17" version A had L3 while the 17" Version B has L2.
Here is what Barefeats has to say:
http://www.barefeats.com/al15.html
Notice also that the Ghz Ti surpasses the Ver A 17"…
Transfer of Apple warranty when selling machine? — #1
Greetings,
First time I've been faced with this one! I'm selling my G5. (long story, don't ask) It is of course still under the factory warranty. I also never registered the mac…
Transfer of Apple warranty when selling machine? — #2
No problems whatsoever. Just send the buyer a copy of the original invoice. With that and the terms of sale they can get it transferred over.
Transfer of Apple warranty when selling machine? — #3
I know for applecare I had to send an a certified letter to apple in texas with a copy of my receipt and the serial number of the my machine and the new owner's name. Might not be…
Transfer of Apple warranty when selling machine? — #4
You don't really need to do anything extra for the normal warranty. I bought an almost-new PowerBook from a client last year and had to have it serviced within the one-year warrant…
Transfer of Apple warranty when selling machine? — #5
Thanks for the info/experiences everyone!
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #1
I turned on my Pismo this morning, and the nice apple logo came on as usual. You know how there is a delay before the spinning circle thingy? (Do you know what im talking about??) …
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #2
If you have access to one, try installing it into a external firewire case. Then you be able to use Disk utility to check the S.M.A.R.T. status. If it doesn't pass S.M.A.R.T. it…
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #3
The drive is 2 years old. Fujitsu. I will look into the firewire drive idea. Thanks. Is there any other way(if i could not get a hold of one), to test it to see if it is dead? I ha…
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #4
Unfortunately, the fact that you can't boot from CD says that your hard drive's controller board is failing. Being the master device on the bus, the hard drive instructs the CD-RO…
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #5
It will take a power user, to help, but I had a problem where my 15" powerbook would not boot, from the hard drive, and refused to the CD too. I don't remember the keys I had to u…
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #6
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Originally posted by robinpow:
It will take a power user, to help, but I had a problem where my 15" powerbook would not boot, from the hard drive, and refused to …
Dead Hard drive, please help! — #7
If you can't boot from CD (The OSX install CD would be the best), it might be the IDE controller being defect, but it might also be something else. I have a Lombard, which is simla…
Any rumors about new release of PowerBook? — #1
Hi,
Anyone know when is the next release for the PowerBook? I was thinking to buy the new PowerBook 15" one month ago, but the reseller that I know told me don't get this batch, c…
Any rumors about new release of PowerBook? — #2
What about the Powerbook in G5? Is it posible to release for the next round? Since iBook has using the G4 processor now.
Any rumors about new release of PowerBook? — #3
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Originally posted by DesignByJack:
What about the Powerbook in G5? Is it posible to release for the next round? Since iBook has using the G4 processor now.
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Any rumors about new release of PowerBook? — #4
Well!! this will be good! But people always say never get the first release of any range of the new product, it usually cost many problem then the second release.
Any rumors about new release of PowerBook? — #5
Yeah...I got my Powerbook 2 weeks before the Al ones hit, and people were saying to wait...but I was unsure because of Apple's Rev. A history. So I went with a Ti Book. I love it…
Any rumors about new release of PowerBook? — #6
I have posted about the g5 powerbooks in a lot of other forums and here are the conclusions I have drawn. With the 90 nm process that they have supposedly just finished perfecting,…