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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Roosevelt Littleton <knowledgeispower80@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PowerBoo G4 performance
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 01:18:19AM -0400, Roosevelt Littleton wrote:
> I have current(freebsd) running on my powerbook, and I can't be nothing
> more than suprised at the performance. Before installing I was optimistic
> of the performance but was suprise it performed just as well as my G5
> gentoo workstation.

PowerPC port had indeed gained a lot recently thanks to efforts of Justin,
Nathan, et al.

Once it gets full 3D support I'll probably start to replace my x86 hardware,
including gaming PC.  Rendering/build box has to stay because of performance
needs though. :-(

./danfe