Mac G4 Processor Comparison

[ThaRemiks]

Im thinking about buying a iBook , and i was wondering if anyone knows what the G4 1Ghz, or 1.2Ghz processors could compare to with Pentium 4 or Athlon

[MipScript]

There has been allot of posts about this subject and well its just to hard to compare there speed because of all the other factors involved (we had about 2 or 3 threads that got upto 6 - 7 pages of arguments and flames and stuff and in the end it always ended with personal views since there is no hard facts)

[TheDreamX]

Well my 867 GHz G4 works almost as well as my Pentium 4 @ 1.8 GHz. So I would assume...

1.0 GHz G4 ~= 1.8 GHz Pentium 4

1.2 GHz G4 ~= 2.0 GHz Pentium 4

Just from experience and only an estimate.

[MipScript]

my personal use with 1 800Mhz G4 iBook and a 2.4P4 laptop I can see a very large difference the P4 is much faster at quick launching tasks when the 800Mhz G4 has a sort of 'lag' when opening programs games even when trying to write on neowin the emoticons on the left of the text entry box makes text lag when you are typeing! (I'm not kidding either) it just cannot handle SWF files at high rez either..

But this is only my personal exspirence.. with a 800mhz iBook (no longer sold)

[Chad]

You have to take in quite a few variables here. Amount of ram, hd speed..... An 800mhz G4 would ROUGHLY equate to a 1.2ish-1.3ish P4. I don't have any benchmarks at the moment, but from what I have noticed, thats close to being right.

[Slacker]

This has been my experience as well

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

You also have to remember that the code running through the processor of a G4 is completely different that that running through your average P4/Athlon. The apps are completely different, so you can't directly compare the two types 1:1 anyways, even based on raw benchmarks.

[n3urotic]

Can't directly compare at all. But 800MHz G4 is going to feel slow for ya at 1 point or another. You might want a faster G4 with more cache than an ibook offers. If possible at all, 12" powerbook is a good pick. I have a 800MHz g4 ibook, I can watch 2 xvid j-drama in quicktime at the same time while listening to mp3 in itunes, that pretty much pushes the limit of the ibook800g4, if u want anymore, get a Powerbook.

[jamend]

Im thinking about buying a iBook , and i was wondering if anyone knows what the G4 1Ghz, or 1.2Ghz processors could compare to with Pentium 4 or Athlon

PC laptops are generally faster (even if it's not a "desknote" thanks to Centrino), but that's usually not a factor when someone decides to buy a Mac. Then again, according to Apple, an 867 MHz G4 is 80% faster than a 1.8 GHz P4... seriously: http://web.archive.org/web/20010725052457/...le.com/g4/myth/

[Xylene]

You have to take in quite a few variables here.  Amount of ram, hd speed.....  An 800mhz G4 would ROUGHLY equate to a 1.2ish-1.3ish P4.  I don't have any benchmarks at the moment, but from what I have noticed, thats close to being right.

And a 1.2-1.4ghz P4 is SLOW.

I used G4 800mhz iMacs at school, 768MB RAM, which are practically the same as an 800mhz iBook, and I can tell you one thing, THEY ARE CRAP. They are slow as all hell. Photoshop is absolutely horrible. My Celeron 1.2ghz rendered photoshop filters in half the time that thing did it. Don't believe all the bogus crap Apple tells you, becuase they are a bunch of liars who mislead their costumers.

[macman87]

And a 1.2-1.4ghz P4 is SLOW.

I used G4 800mhz iMacs at school, 768MB RAM, which are practically the same as an 800mhz iBook, and I can tell you one thing, THEY ARE CRAP. They are slow as all hell. Photoshop is absolutely horrible. My Celeron 1.2ghz rendered photoshop filters in half the time that thing did it. Don't believe all the bogus crap Apple tells you, becuase they are a bunch of liars who mislead their costumers.

the ibook will be faster though, because it has a much faster graphics card, ddr memory, and more cache.

[Gary_Player]

PC laptops are generally faster (even if it's not a "desknote" thanks to Centrino), but that's usually not a factor when someone decides to buy a Mac. Then again, according to Apple, an 867 MHz G4 is 80% faster than a 1.8 GHz P4... seriously: http://web.archive.org/web/20010725052457/...le.com/g4/myth/

As with any benchmarks from apple, intel, or amd, take them with a grain of salt :rolleyes:

My 1.33 G4 performs about as well as my P4 2.26. They both push a fair ammount of weight, they could both encode a DVD in about the same time (I think my G4 is faster there). I couldn't really do any CPU benchmark comparisons though because A: theres no programs for direct comparison and B: even if there were noone would believe them :p

my personal use with 1 800Mhz G4 iBook and a 2.4P4 laptop I can see a very large difference the P4 is much faster at quick launching tasks when the 800Mhz G4 has a sort of 'lag' when opening programs games even when trying to write on neowin the emoticons on the left of the text entry box makes text lag when you are typeing!

Alot of that is a problem with the program, not the processor