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Hi...

I'm thinking of buying a power book g4. although the price is a bit
steep here in malaysia, i feel it's worth the money. i went through
the features; i noticed that it's running at 128 bit. Is this faster
than the future intel / amd 64 bit processor?

I'm not an expert, but the only thing that's 128 bits on the G4 is the
AltiVec unit. From what I've read, the Powerbook 800MHz uses the MPC7455
processor, which is a 32 bit implementation of the PowerPC architecture. See
the link below

http://www.veryComputer.com/
Id=01M98653

A good review of the Powerbook 800 can be seen at

http://www.veryComputer.com/#st...

If you're deciding between two different architectures and cost is an issue,
I would "test drive" the apps I would be using on each system to see which
one performs better and feels better.

John

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