Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> is that a serious question???
> the pentium has nothing to say against the G4. period. moreover, CISC
> is just pittyful compared to RISC.
Irrelevant with today's modern CPUs like the PIII.
The G3, G4, PII, PIII CPUs all take the best properties of RISC & CISC.
> then again, unless you are talking absolutely high volume, there is
> nothing of big computational cost that your server will do, so i'd
> assume a pentium would work just as fine. however, if you have the
> means, go for the G4!
No, go for the PIII, especially if you're going to run Linux - ix86
systems are simply better supported than powermacs. That can be a big
deal if you're going to run software available only as a binary.
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