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On Dec 28, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Peter Grehan wrote:

>> The last G4 powerbooks are probably using a slower laptop drive,
>> and that will hurt performance.
>
> Yep. A firewire/800 external drive would do the trick.
>
> For old G4 powermacs, there are a number of accelerator card  
> options. Not sure if all of these exist anymore but it's a place to  
> start:
>
>  http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4upgrades.html

A dual CPU G4 Xserve may do the trick... SMP support
for PowerPC is almost there...

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Marcel Moolenaar
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