Fastest PowerPC supproted by FreeBSD
Garance A Drosihn
drosih at rpi.edu
Fri Dec 28 11:05:12 PST 2007
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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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih at rpi.edu
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