PPC G5 Halts, Panics, Crashes - heat related? — #24

Post #24 by Mike Richardson

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Mon, 12 Oct 2009 - 03:38
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/ppc-g5-halts-panics-crashes-heat-related.18753/

Post

In geekbench tests, the original macbook air (1.6GHz C2D) whups the pants off of all G5 systems except the dual2.7 and the dualdual2.5. This test is admittedly only of CPU and ram speed performance, and isn't necessarily indicative of the fact that even though there are no 64-bit apps for PPC macs, you could hypothetically cram sixteen gigs of ram into one of those faster G5s, or an nVidia GeFORCE 7800GT or whatever.

So you're saying there are no 64-bit Mac PPC apps at all ever made in the history of PPC Macs? WTF?

I think benchmarks are shit too, and they favor Intel Macs over PPC Macs somehow.

Everything is optimized for x86, many times more effort has been put into optimizing x86 compilers compared to PPC compilers. Imagine if the same effort was put into PPC compilers.