Interesting, G3 iMac smokes G4 Power Mac
Posted by Anticitizen on January 17, 2007
Recently, I had the pleasure of working with a G3 iMac (400MHz, 512MB RAM), and boy, it felt a lot faster than my Power Mac G4.
There was a myth that the AltiVec slows down the G4 processors. I guess this could be true. Mac OS X was definitely speedier on the iMac, and starting applications was also speedier. Hell, starting a G4-optimized build of Firefox was faster.
I guess that myth has some truth to it.
