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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:45:29 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        grehan@freebsd.org
Cc:        powerpc@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: Fastest PowerPC supproted by FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <85901D95-E8E4-4CFF-8274-4DB1728BF936@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <47754F14.9010809@freebsd.org>
References:  <20071227.235310.-1300543293.imp@bsdimp.com> <4774ADF7.9060407@freebsd.org> <p06240800c39ae42cd7e5@[128.113.24.47]> <47754F14.9010809@freebsd.org>

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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...

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com





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