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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.

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