G5 Quad Gluttony!

[Dronecatcher]

Just to throw in a quick late-to-the-party observation of my own;

A) OS X on any G5 I have owned has outperformed OS X on any G4 I have owned.
B) OS X was not optimized for 64-bitness on G5 systems.

This is not to be confused with OS X being *more* optimized for G4 than G5. It's simply a case of the G5's full potential not being tapped by OS X.

I agree on both points.

It's all semantics and there can be no proof as there'll never be a G4 with specs to match a G5 system but I feel OSX 10 - 10.4 was designed around the G4 and although it could pick up the ball and run with it (faster), the G5 was waiting for an OSX made for it that never happened. Leopard was another story, designed around X86...and again, no proof (apart from the quantum leap in system requirements) just a feeling.