Dumb
(The G5 has BEEN OUT for over a year people, just hasn't been used in desktops...)
No. The G5 has not come out yet. The MPC 8500, or whatever they call it, has. It is an embedded-use proc. No altivec. Very limited feature set. It is a step down from the 604, let alone the G3 or *gasp* the G4.
See, your problem is lack of knowledge. There are many people out there who are more knowledgable than you. These people work at Apple, Motorola, Microsoft, AMD, ATi, nVidia, Intel, and so on.
These are the people who make the decisions. And remember, they know more than you. They have also probably have had more education in the field. Plus, as an added incentive, in most cases their jobs depend on the decisions they make.
Okay, so Steve is somewhat temperamental. But you have no right to second guess a company's decisions unless you are a shareholder, and even then you shouldn't rumormonger.
Spreading totally false rumors only serves to disillusion people when those impossible predictions fail to come true.
Now, Apple may intro a new G4 model, and even go so far as to call it a G5. Apple may even put real DDR on their machines (unlike the XServe's arch, which is horribly crippled). Apple actually has to build their own Controllers, so even the Xserve's mobo was quite a feat. Dell, for example, does not build their own controller architecture. But Apple will not release a machine which uses the MPC 8500. They might release a network switch, ala cisco, which uses that moto part, but Apple has never been into building networking equipment.
I am an Apple shareholder. Fundamentally, I realise that Apple is currently in a bind. Intel has a 2.5Ghz P4 with a 533Mhz FSB. That is not only a heck of a lot faster than any current mac, but also offers a 5:1 proc:bus ratio. For comparison, the PowerMac G4 500, the last really competitive mac in terms of raw speed, had the same ratio. Apple needs DDR. Apple needs speed. Only Motorola can provide these two things.
Apple has tried to build their own solutions, as with the Xserve. It is very difficult to build a new motherboard architecture from scratch. Motorola refuses to make a DDR G4 solution, because it would be wasted research for them, as the G5 will have integrated DDR (of note: the G5 will likely be based on the MPC 8500, which has integraated DDR, therefore leading to my conclusion). So I huddle down and wait for motot to get their act together. Apple, however, seems to be doing quite nicely, aside from the usual high-margin issue of how much they feel they can get away with shafting their customers .
