Which Powermac (G4/G5) to buy for YDL?

[Claude Schrader]

If you can afford the dual G5 go for it. If not, get the dual G4. The 
1.6 gHz G5 single is stripped down in many ways (bus, video, HD), and 
generally the 2 G4 processors will benefit most people more than having 
1 G5. It takes a good amount of data to take advantage of a 64 bit 
arch. OSX and linux love having two processors. Both are beasts - I'm 
jealous. Have fun,
	Claude

On Dec 30, 2003, at 2:01 PM, 
yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:41:12 -0500
> From: Ken Schweigert <ken@byte-productions.com>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Which Powermac (G4/G5) to buy for YDL?
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:28:19PM +0100, jaspal kallar  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thinking of getting a Powermac G4 (1.25) or G5 (1.6)
>> and dual boot YDL with OS X.
>>
>> What would you do in my position considering that
>> YDL is only beta on G5 and is quite stable on the G4?
>>
>
> If it were me I'd opt for the G5.  The fact that YDL is beta for the
> G5 tells you that they are trying to support it.  I think I even
> remember reading a post by Dan saying that he had it running on one.
>
> Partition your drive, put Ten on it and use it until there's a
> stable version of YDL.  When it is released I think you'll be
> glad you did.
>
> I've never heard of anyone wishing they had a slower computer.  :)
>
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Claude M. Schrader
AXP, Lambda Chi Phi chapter
Drexel University class of 2004
School of Information Systems and Technology