I am a Mac & PC user - I have a Mac at home (see my specs below) but must have a Windows PC for work. My 3 year old Sony Vaio Laptop is about to bite the dust due to non-stop daily use (abuse) and I REALLY, REALLY want to replace it with a 17" 1.33 GHz PowerBook.
How well would Windows run on the PB using VPC 6 compared to my current 750MHz Pentium 3 Windows PC with only 256MB of RAM.
Also, the PB no longer has the Level 3 cache, only Level 2 @ 512k, and I have heard that VPC runs best with a large L3 cache, but not so good with L2. I am afraid that this means the VPC will be extremely slow without the Level 3 cache - which would mean the whole computer would be useless for me.
I have a licensed pre-MS copy of VPC 6 and a licensed copy of Windows 2000. On my Mac at home, which does have a Level 3 cache with 2 MB DDR SRAM per processor, VPC runs pretty good - occasionally lag-gy, but not bad.
Any thoughts, tips or recommendations would be much appreciated - since I need to make a decision on my purchase soon.
Thanks,
Tim
WORK: Sony Vaio 750MHz Pentium 3; Windows XP Pro; 15GB HD; 256MB RAM
HOME: (See below)
How well would Windows run on the PB using VPC 6 compared to my current 750MHz Pentium 3 Windows PC with only 256MB of RAM.
Also, the PB no longer has the Level 3 cache, only Level 2 @ 512k, and I have heard that VPC runs best with a large L3 cache, but not so good with L2. I am afraid that this means the VPC will be extremely slow without the Level 3 cache - which would mean the whole computer would be useless for me.
I have a licensed pre-MS copy of VPC 6 and a licensed copy of Windows 2000. On my Mac at home, which does have a Level 3 cache with 2 MB DDR SRAM per processor, VPC runs pretty good - occasionally lag-gy, but not bad.
Any thoughts, tips or recommendations would be much appreciated - since I need to make a decision on my purchase soon.
Thanks,
Tim
WORK: Sony Vaio 750MHz Pentium 3; Windows XP Pro; 15GB HD; 256MB RAM
HOME: (See below)