AlBook benchmarks drop

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Why get into hardware benchmarking? All the free tail. BareFeats got ahold of the new PowerBooks and put them to work:

The new 15″ (and 17″) Aluminum PowerBooks don’t seem to suffer from the missing level 3 cache. The larger on-chip level 2 cache seems to take care of business. The bumped up clock speed and Radeon 9600 graphics translate into better performance. Apple’s going to sell a “oodles” of these!

But will it run Camino AND* BBedit? 🙂

* Yes folks—at the SAME TIME! I run a crazy life.

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One Response to “AlBook benchmarks drop”

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