[BUGS] G5vG4 - discussion from last bugs day

[Andrew Reilly]

Hi Jonathan,

Sorry I missed the pre-Christmas BSD day.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:21:10PM +1100, 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.

Besides being a bit too hot to go into a laptop, I can't think
of *any* respect in which the G5 (AKA PPC970) is inferior to the
G4 (AKA Freescale MPC7455).  What angle were you all discussing
on the day?  Mind you, I like that the G4 works nicely in
laptops: my G4 power book is still working nicely.

Not that it makes for much more than historical interest these
days: I doubt that anyone will sell you a "computer" with either
of them in, new, now.  Some embedded things still use the
Freescale parts, I guess.  I think that IBM has mostly moved on
to P6 parts for their Power line.

Cheers,

Andrew