it could very much be true. web page loading is not based on connection alone, it could be a better computer, or a computer with less going on in the background so you have more free resources so the pages load nice and fast. if you're really interested go to; http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/?tag=tm

and run that test. its a bandwidth meter, for all you know, your service might actually run better on that g4 powerbook than other machine(s).

If you're a mac user, I recommend Safari I'm a Safari user on my mac, and an IE/Firefox user on Windows. I also used to use Mozilla when I ran a linux machine.