Rumor: PowerPC - The Roadmap

[Abstract]

Rumor: PowerPC - The Roadmap
by Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
June 26th 2003

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Done with the PPC 970, MacBidouille have now published what it claims is the road map (referred to by Jobs in his '02 MWNY keynote) for the PowerPC.

As ever, you can take all this with healthy grain of salt.

2003:
June-July: Power Mac G5 (yes, we know) and XServe.
Speedbumped PB G4s to 1.25GHz.

Aug-Sept: iMac speedbump to 1.2 and 1.4GHz.

Nov: 'Gobi' G3 iBooks running @ 1.0 and 1.2GHz.

2004:

Jan-Feb: Revised PPC970, expected to run @ 2.5GHz+
First 970-equipped iMacs @ 1.4-1.6GHz.

March (uncertain): PPC 980-based PowerBooks.

Analysis: Fairly educated guesses, although it means pro portable users are going to be hanging out for the 980 PB for a fair while. Maybe then the iBook will get the G4 (it'd be nice). Remember how long we had to wait for the G4 TiBook? They had to clear out the Pismos at firesale prices in December after that major loss in 2000. Part of the reason was that the G3-based Pismo just wasn't cutting it for OS X, and everyone got bored with iBook colors.


SOURCE (http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=2293)

What do you think? ;)

[shadowfax]

i think it is way, way too soon a prediction for G5s in the iMac. that will be late in 2004 at best, IMO.

[Abstract]

What's wrong with it? A 1.4GHz G5 iMac would be perfect. I don't know how it'll cool a G5 with it's current casing, but by Jan/Feb 2004, that would be the perfect time to put it into the iMac. I don't think anyone wants a G4 right now. I don't. But I LOOOVE the iBook and Gobi reference. That's what I want, not a PB.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Abstract
What's wrong with it? A 1.4GHz G5 iMac would be perfect. I don't know how it'll cool a G5 with it's current casing, but by Jan/Feb 2004, that would be the perfect time to put it into the iMac. I don't think anyone wants a G4 right now. I don't. But I LOOOVE the iBook and Gobi reference. That's what I want, not a PB. nobody wants a G4, but you want a g3? right. i am just saying i think it will take a lot longer for them to upgrade the other systems, especially the iMac, which has a passive cooling system. i expect them to ride the G4s to 2 GHz at least. we'll see though.

[arn]

This is an old timeline. I don't know why they dug this up. Came out May 5.

We discussed it here:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/05/20030505020041.shtml

arn

[ouketii]

here's my processor roadmap:

june 2003- g5 @ 2ghz.
Jan 2004 - g5 @ 2.5ghz
June 2004- g5 @ 3ghz

eh throw in some updated g3 running too slowely and a g4 that apparently noone wants, and it shapes up to be a pretty good roadmap ;) that is, unless you compare it to intel/amd, at 4ghz by end of this year. stiillll running windows XP. that XP part takes the fun out of it, though.

[maraczc]

Originally posted by ouketii
here's my processor roadmap:

june 2003- g5 @ 2ghz.
Jan 2004 - g5 @ 2.5ghz
June 2004- g5 @ 3ghz

eh throw in some updated g3 running too slowely and a g4 that apparently noone wants, and it shapes up to be a pretty good roadmap ;) that is, unless you compare it to intel/amd, at 4ghz by end of this year. stiillll running windows XP. that XP part takes the fun out of it, though.

I think that the may change depending on when Centario and Athlon 64 are coming out and in what state. And they might want to have the biggest bump around the itme that those come out to "soften the blow". Or maybe as soon as possible to ride on being the fastest computer for a while until those come out. I don't know which because obviously I don't have a master's degree in business.