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Overclocking Your iBook to 600MHz

Posted by timothy on from the clashing-paradigms dept.

Cryptnotic writes: "The guys at Accelerate Your Mac have figured out how to modify the motherboard on the recent Apple iBooks to get them to run at 600MHz with a 100MHz bus speed. There are benchmarks comparing the OC'd iBook to some regular Apple desktop machines. However, what I am wondering most is how this overclocked G3 compares to the much more expensive Apple G4 Powerbook and if it makes it worth voiding the warranty." Remember, not recommended for your iBook.

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  1. differences between g3/g4 by tonyt · · Score: 0, Troll

    a friendly reminder: the g4 is just a g3 with an altivec 128-but vector processing unit. afaik there are no further differences.

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    -=tonyt=-
  2. Re:Successful mod done. by Splork · · Score: 1, Troll

    marketing the reason? Oh come on, if apple had released their cheapest machine with a 100mhz bus speed it would seriously hurt the sales of their higher end machines.

    Remember that apple has monopoly control over their hardware.