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That depends on what you mean by "on the market". I'm sure they will be orderable right away. Depending on what dual core configurations they announce some might even be shipped right away, but other than the initial shipment to stores, it could take a few weeks to get a BTO of the high end unit.zoran said:
Roll some dice. Consult yor magic 8-ball. They'll have just as good an answer as anybody else until new machines are available for ordering.
need for speed anyone?
dual core dual processor PM G5... my head hurts... too much power!!!
really... 2 x 2 x 2.27... ~10.8GHz.
they would have to have some kind of very special cooling system in that. I doubt even their current liquid cooling would cope with it. engineers rule
dual core dual processor PM G5... my head hurts... too much power!!!
really... 2 x 2 x 2.27... ~10.8GHz.
they would have to have some kind of very special cooling system in that. I doubt even their current liquid cooling would cope with it. engineers rule
Actually, it's liable to be a dual dual 2.5GHz. (Unless IBM has an unannounced faster 970MP available.) As for cooling, it shouldn't be any warmer than the current 2.7GHz PowerMac.Scarlet Fever said:dual core dual processor PM G5... my head hurts... too much power!!!
really... 2 x 2 x 2.27... ~10.8GHz.
they would have to have some kind of very special cooling system in that. I doubt even their current liquid cooling would cope with it. engineers rule
And as for how much processing power, some people can make use of that. Especially for video rendering. Did you know it's possible to overwork a PowerMac such that iTunes has problems playing music continuously?
Bear said:
ive only had that problem when:
Running compressor - encoding MPEG2 from HDTV material
Azureus dling 10 torrents
Firefox
iChatting
itunes listening
unRaring a few files
burning a DVD with Toast
and then I open a movie file to look at it, and the music skips sometimes. Very rarely.
I find its only when the "indexing" background process is running.
Bear said:
ive only had that problem when:
Running compressor - encoding MPEG2 from HDTV material
Azureus dling 10 torrents
Firefox
iChatting
itunes listening
unRaring a few files
burning a DVD with Toast
and then I open a movie file to look at it, and the music skips sometimes. Very rarely.
I find its only when the "indexing" background process is running.
With my dual cpus, I know I dont get any "beachball of death" because OSX handles everything well. But sometimes I want to be doing a little more and know I am taxing my system too much. With "quad" cpus, I could.
Could one swap the boot drives when upgrading?
Let's assume that they come out with dual core G5s next week. How possible would it be for someone upgrading from a dual 2.5 to a dual core 2.x to simply swap the boot drives between the old and new machine to avoid reinstalling everything on the new machine? Assuming the person's current dual 2.5 is running 10.4.2...
Let's assume that they come out with dual core G5s next week. How possible would it be for someone upgrading from a dual 2.5 to a dual core 2.x to simply swap the boot drives between the old and new machine to avoid reinstalling everything on the new machine? Assuming the person's current dual 2.5 is running 10.4.2...
It probably wouldn't work. The odds are the new mahcines will require something a bit newer than 10.4.2 to work.. And even if it was the right version, you might be missing a piece of required software.Moof1904 said:
Scarlet Fever said:dual core dual processor PM G5... my head hurts... too much power!!!
really... 2 x 2 x 2.27... ~10.8GHz.
they would have to have some kind of very special cooling system in that. I doubt even their current liquid cooling would cope with it. engineers rule
Actually the heat dissipation would not be double a 2.7 (or 2.27), because a dual core is a larger die, but the thermal properties are always related directly to power requirements, and clock speed. I think it would be more like 133% to 150% of a standard dual.
best analogy is the difference between Hyperthreading and Dual core, and the fact that Pentium 4 and Pentium D chips run in similar cooling environments but with a slight increase in power consumption.
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IIRC the Dual 2.5 experienced a lot of shipping delays, while the 2.7 did not. So it's anyone's guess how smooth things will go.