| Thursday, February 7, 2002 |
11:19 - "A TiBøøk once bit my sister..."
http://reviewboard.com/Section/Cover/g4powerbook
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Several weeks ago, someone at Reviewboard Magazine published an online review of the TiBook. It was a very negative review-- hardly the kind of thing we'd expect even from a confirmed PC magazine, especially since almost every other review had been glowingly positive.
Well, it turns out that the editor in question's boss just got back from vacation, and he noticed that the first review had been full of glaring factual errors and was in general just wrong. He's done his own review of the TiBook, and it's much more complimentary.
Let's touch base on each of the items and why they are cool. The G4 Processor (which can be had up to the 667Mhz speed now and that model has a 133Mhz bus speed to compliment it farther) is pretty fast for a 550. Being a PC person for the last ten years I have to say I was thinking to myself... 550Mhz? What are they thinking, I have a 2 Gigahert PC.
When I fired it up and tried things out it wasn't slow at all. In fact the 1 Megabyte of L2 Cache, which runs at the speed of the processor provides a huge buffer of high speed, short term memory to the CPU. It makes a world of difference when you are doing things and the benchmarks where off the chart when I compared it to an INTEL 550Mhz Processor or an ATHLON 550Mhz Processor.
In fact I had to compare it to a 1Ghz PC Processor to get a good comparison. That impressed the heck out of me.
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3/3 stars. Apple does make a better mousetrap.
Oh, and those responsible for the previous review have been sacked.
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