How does a g4 tower compare to an ibook?

Hello,
can anyone tell me how a G4 400mhz tower with loads of RAM compares to my G3 iBook with 374mb of RAM in terms of speed etc? Ive got the chance to buy a few of the G4s for not much money, but will only get them if theyre as good as / better than my laptop
Thanks

Hi
it's difficult to say as it partly depends on which applications you use, how demanding they are in terms of memory and whether they can take advantage of AltiVec etc.
In general terms laptops tend to be slower at a given processor speed due to the performance of other components such as the hard drive, where power consumption rather than speed is important.
The G4 towers are also more expandable and the processor, graphics card etc can all be upgraded. I guess whether it's actually worth doing this or just buying a higher spec tower to begin with though partly depends on how much they're being sold for.
Also two different G4 towers were available with 400MHz processors, the Yikes!/PCI G4 and the Sawtooth/AGP G4. The second is generally better.

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