remember when tech ppl argued endlessly about if powerpc or intel was better and then microsoft made a powerpc game console and apple switched to intel
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@sun@shitposter.world the answer was yes, power was indeed better.
It still is better infact. IBM just has a humiliation fetish and likes to piss off anyone trying to still sell consumer power products like Raptor who are stuck on POWER9 because they loaded up the successor generations with mandatory proprietary shitware.
It still is better infact. IBM just has a humiliation fetish and likes to piss off anyone trying to still sell consumer power products like Raptor who are stuck on POWER9 because they loaded up the successor generations with mandatory proprietary shitware.
@sun@shitposter.world like you had 16 core power systems in 2018 competing against higher power consumption 32 core AMD systems and 40 core Intel systems.
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@lolitechengineer speaking from experience using macs, the mac powerpc offering was not that great. I used to use AIX power and it was exceptional for database
@sun@shitposter.world yeah, I think Apple was eyeing their exit after the G3. My G4 on OpenBSD still rocks. Never had a G5, but I bet those quad (or even dual) core 64 bit systems would still make for killer machines on a GNU or BSD.
On that iBook, using MacOS was a slog, but I was able to browse the web in a graphical browser and even watch HD videos in AV1 (not at the same time)
On that iBook, using MacOS was a slog, but I was able to browse the web in a graphical browser and even watch HD videos in AV1 (not at the same time)
@lolitechengineer I had a couple G4s and for a while had a dual cpu dual core G5 2.5Ghz. When I upgraded to the first generation of Intel macbook pro, it blew the doors off the powerpc chips in perceptible performance.
I installed os x on a G3 imac and it ran like shit, but Linux ran okay on it.
I installed os x on a G3 imac and it ran like shit, but Linux ran okay on it.