I had a G4 933 mHz until a week ago that listed about 140%;
then I went PC, for a big deal based on these tests ;and money...
1) Ableton Live CPU Meter - 24%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model -Laptop/Dell Inspiron 9300
3) Operating System -Windows XP home
4) CPU Make Model and Speed -Pentium M 2,26 gHz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram - 1Gb/533 mhz (not sure if this is ram speed)
6) Soundcard - Firewire Digidesign 002 Rack
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed - local 5400 RPM and extern Firewire LaCie BigDisk 7200 RPM
actually I thought I would go below twenties with those specs, I tweaked what I could as I followed the instructions on "how to" pages but only gained about 1 % after about 10-15 tweaks. So probably this is just it, but perfect though.
The power is overwhelming after 5 months of ableton 4-5 on that G4
