is it by any chance possible that apple might be putting the g6 chip in there mac pro designs? It would be sweet oh and the link is in appleinsider.com
is it by any chance possible that apple might be putting the g6 chip in there mac pro designs? It would be sweet oh and the link is in appleinsider.com
hmm thanks i thought the power6 was powerpc oh well but these chips would be sweet.No, they won't be putting the new chip in Macs. Also, there is no "G6." Don't confuse POWER6 with PowerPC G6. POWER and PowerPC are not the same thing, and the G# names were just Apple's branding. The G5, for example, was the PowerPC 970, which was a derivative of the POWER4 chip.
Well, you did a fine job. My G5 is still the **** after almost 4 years.having been on the G5 processor design team, and seeing my team totally disbanded when apple went to intel, let me end this discussion with a loud and final realization...
Never say never unless you are Apple! I don't recall verbatim but how many of you remember His Steveness when he said Apple would never use PC (CISC) chips? I also seem to remember this was said more than once.
Lo and behold! His Steveness eventually revealed that Apple had been running EVERY version of Mac OS-X on Intel chips from the beginning of OS-X.
Hey johnee what's U3 and GPUL stand for?
Hey johnee what's U3 and GPUL stand for?
hmm thanks i thought the power6 was powerpc oh well but these chips would be sweet.
The POWER6 IS a powerpc chip. (Hence the name 'power').
You're mistaken. PowerPC refers to a specific set of derivatives of the POWER architecture.
Did you even read the link:
You're mistaken. PowerPC refers to a specific set of derivatives of the POWER architecture.
I cut my teeth with UNIX on an IBM PowerPC RS/6000 then moved very nicely into my Power Mac G5. I was talking about Intel Mac's to a friend the other day, and without thinking I said "I use a real Mac - a Power Mac". Then I had to think twice about my comment. What are the advantages of Apple using Intel processors? The fact that I can run Windows faster?! Bleh. I'm probably in the minority here, but now that IBM has announced the Power6, I (not so) secretly wish they were back in good standing with Apple.
At 4.7 GHz, the dual-core POWER6 processor doubles the speed of the previous generation POWER5 while using nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cool it.