i5 Macbook Pro VS G4 Powerbook sartup showdown: Who needs an SSD anyway?

many people have posting videos of the startup time of macbook pro's with SSDs and comparing them to HDDs. There will be an obvious difference: the SSD is always faster. I am sick of these videos - they prove nothing.

Now a real challenge for the macbook pro i5! it will go head to head with a venerable G4 powerbook it a race to reach the login screen first. It should be a clear victory for the i5 powered Macbook Pro and the specs are in its favour with 8 times the ram of the G4 and 5 years of technological progress on its side. The G4 is in a sorry state with 5 years of constant use/abuse and less than 1Gb left on the startup drive.

is it worth the extra money for the SSD or should you spend much much less money and get a G4? Place your bets!

15" Macbook Pro i5 2.4GHz 4Gb RAM with high rez antiglare vs 15" G4 powerbook 1.67GHz, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb HDD

btw this is a joke, I think it would be a terrible idea to replace an i5 Macbook Pro with a G4

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• i5

[duncanperson]

I am going to give a little update now due to a few comments - and I'll level with you...

Firstly, the i5 macbook pro was about 2 days old and had virtually nothing on it. I think it may have had ~3 GB of extra stuff on it at this stage.

Secondly, this particular macbook pro had something critically wrong with its CPU and about 1 week later it would take over 2 hours to start up. I had it fixed for free under warranty and now its works really well - faster than the G4.

[BrutalBiscuit]

is there any way of removing the silver bezel and applying the black glass thingy ma bob on the i5 macbook pro

[duncanperson]

@BrutalBiscuit: The computer comes with the silver rim if you order an antiglare screen. I would say no, there is no way to change the silver whilst still having an antiglare screen - but I could be wrong.

[paulomuniruequed]

this i5 Macbook boot is horribly slow, my iBook G4 running Panther is faster than both.

[TheSlipKnot981]

@BrutalBiscuit no. the glass covers teh whole screen on the glossy one. that is why they use the silver on the matte, because they don't want a matte border.

[turanspirit]

sartup !

[dantheiphoneman]

@duncanperson That sucks. Two Hours of startup? What was critically wrong with the CPU. dead motherboard?

[dantheiphoneman]

@BrutalBiscuit I think that the silver bezel just looks nicer

[mikrosha]

jesus, why do you guys put up videos of boot time for the macbook pros?? It doesn't indicate the overall speed of the computer in any way, plus i don't know about you, I hardly ever turn off or restart my MBP. Something like showing a running geek bench test makes more sense... anyway, thanks for the video.

[ImTheSeekr]

@iPodTouchGenie yes, but it can emulate x86 code, intel cant, ppc is the only processor that has built in emulation for (and i meant to say 68x, lmao 68030...) sorry for mix up 0_o, but my G4 is good enough, i wont be buying an intel mac any time soon.

[iPodTouchGenie]

@ImTheSeekr Do you know anything about computer architecture? PowerPC can't run x86 code any more than an American can understand Cyrillic. I own both types of Mac (a PM G4 and an i7 MBP). Trust me, the 133Mhz bus on my G4 falls flat on it's face when stacked against my 2010 i7 with a 2.5 GT/s bus if you want to talk about handling more data. I secretly wish Apple kept PPC though, I love the old Macs, and for the clock speed they were more powerful than the Intel machines at the time.

[ImTheSeekr]

BTW i have compared performance of a G4 and a macbook pro. the G4 is clearly faster and does not crash every 10 minutes, it also can dual boot with OS9 and has X86 compatibility. the G4 has more compatibility and apple made a stupid idea to replace the G series with intel. the G4 processor can handle more data then the macbook pro could ever run. i have tested the g4 to at least 15 other macs, old and new, beating everything it competes to, including 2010 macbook pro.

[jllaw416]

I just bought a 15" Powerbook 1.67 GHz for $220.00 on Ebay. I hope I will not have a problem watching Youtube on my laptop. Please let me know how Youtube play in on this computer. Thanks.

[MarsOntheRocks]

@duncanperson Then you "have" to edit the description/video or delete the video altogether. My MBP 2006 model boots faster than both of the models in this video. :-/