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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:00:22 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        grehan@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        powerpc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fastest PowerPC supproted by FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <p06240800c39ae42cd7e5@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <4774ADF7.9060407@freebsd.org>
References:  <20071227.235310.-1300543293.imp@bsdimp.com> <4774ADF7.9060407@freebsd.org>

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At 12:04 AM -0800 12/28/07, Peter Grehan wrote:
>>Does anybody have any good recommendations for the fastest PowerPC
>>based MAC that FreeBSD will run on?  How about the one with the
>>biggest supported memory?
>
>  G5's would be best but I've never gotten around to putting in 
>support for them.
>
>  The G4 tops out below 2GHz. I would recommend the last G4 
>Powerbooks - they have a USB keyboard. The last G4 Power Macs are 
>probably good as well, and can usually be optioned up with RAM.

The last G4 powerbooks are probably using a slower laptop drive,
and that will hurt performance.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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