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+ Bird-E	Sep 30 2005, 08:59 PM
Dedicated member Posts: 420 Group: Elite Member Member #76 Joined: June 25, 2005	As some of you may know, I've been considering switching to a mac for my future computer. Reading over the specs of various notebooks and comparing them to the ibook and powerbook line, I realised that I really didnt have a clue as to what most of these specs do. Okay so I'll be using the ibook 14 inch specs as a demonstration. 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 [I understand that this is the processor speed and type, and this affects the overall performance] 512K L2 cache @1.42GHz [hmm... further detail on the speed? I heard that the cache is responsible for actually processing the memory... is that why its called a processor x.x? 512MB memory (DDR333 SDRAM) [The ram. The older versions came with 256 mb sticks. I have no real idea as to what this does, but from what I gather its responsible for the performance of multimedia, the visual presentation, etc.] Id appreciate any help.


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