Thanks Thorsten.  He said it is a powerbook not an ibook. Yes, it's os x.
All settings were fully throttled, no battery-saving.  Apparently the
fastest time he got on the mac was about 24 mins with the display off.
The athlon time was actually 5:05. The p3 times were display-on.    Doing a
quick/unofficial 160x120 no AA render of benchmark.pov showed more expected
results with the 2ghz athhlon finishing about twice as fast as the 1ghz p3.
(~2:40 vs. ~5:45) He started the g4 on the same, but I didn't wait to hear
back about the time.
Charles

Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> That applies only to a desktop system, and if you have it in a notebook most
> likely power saving was enabled (it is by default, cuts clock by half), plus
> if it was in an iBook rather than a PowerBook, memory will have been slower.
> Plus, if it was running on Mac OS X rather than Mac OS 9, you lost another
> 10%-15% right there. Plus, if you did it with display enabled, that would
> again change results, especially on Mac OS X that simply is slower due to
> the double-buffered windows forced on applications (it especially hurts if
> you have less than 32 MB of graphics card RAM).

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