[BUGS] G5vG4 - discussion from last bugs day

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 13/01/2009, at 12:21 PM, jonathan michaels wrote:

>   i'm looking to further my fading knowledge of teh relative  
> benefits of teh G4
>   processor over teh newer (and less capable) G5.

The only benefit I'm aware of is the lower power consumption and heat  
generation of the G4... The G5 is faster, has some extra bits (64  
instead of 32) and is generally pretty good.. It's not as good as it  
could have been, but it's still better than the G4 in terms of  
performance..


>   note: i may have some sun 64bit machines for good homes (read that  
> to mean
>   freebsd/bsd developers (ok linux dev types as well). target is  
> about 6 (512mb
>   with 2 gb scsi drive, some with cdrom some with more some  
> essentially complete
>   motherboards), again if interested please mail me. at this point  
> there is no
>   real timetable, i've got some few tons of intel garbage to toss  
> before i
>   seriously concider ditching teh sun stuff.

But FreeBSD developers don't support sun hardware =p