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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