Unless the Superdrive is of great importance to you, I would go for the
dual 533's- overall a much better bang for your buck, especially if you plan
on upgrading to OS X sooner rather than later.


-Bryan C. Powell
CAS TSR




> The word on the street seems to be that Mac OS 9.1 isn't written to take
> good advantage of the new cache architecture of the two high-end G4's.
> (The PPC 7450's have 256K of on-chip L2 cache and 1 MB of L3 cache.)
> These machines will probably perform a lot better under Mac OS X or an
> updated version of Mac OS 9.x.
>
> Personally, I bought a Dual 533 soon after they were announced. The
> price/performance ratio just seemed a lot better. On the other hand, you
> can't get a SuperDrive with this configuration and very few Mac OS 9
> apps take advantage of dual processors.
>
> John
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 6, 2001, at 10:42 AM, Joseph M. Carlin wrote:
>
> > Hi Group:
> > Last week I ordered a 733 MHz G4.  This week I have been reading
some
> > disturbing reports (see <http://www.barefeats.com/G4733.htm> and
> > <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com>) in which the 733 benchmarks similarly
> > to a single processor 533 MHz G4 in some tests, and is easily beaten
> > by a dual processor 533 in multi-processor-aware apps.  My question
> > is:
> >
> > Should I change my order to a dual-processor 533 MHz G4, or stick
with
> > the 733?
> > --
> > Joseph M. Carlin                  ([log in to unmask])
> > Associate Professor
> > Department of Microbiology  (http://www.muohio.edu/~mbicwis/)
> > Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056


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