Freescale reveals 90nm G4 processor
Category: PowerPC
Link: Freescale reveals 90nm G4 processor
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Category: PowerPC
Link: Freescale reveals 90nm G4 processor
Posted on MacBytes.com
Approved by Mudbug
JoePike said:I sure hope they figure out a way to put a G5 in the powerbook. These dual core G4's would be phenomenal additions to the emac and ibook, but the powerbook is a product geared towards professionals and should have the top processor running at 64-bits and a bigger front side bus and L2 cache. These dual core chips are admittedly much better than the G4's the powerbooks are currently running on, but the next step has to be the G5, especially now that they put one in the iMac. I'm a little miffed that a consumer product landed a G5 before all the pro macs had them, but given the design complications I can understand. But now that it has been proven that a G5 can be shoved into a small space, Apple needs to get it into the powerbook.
-Joe
Kirtus said:Why are you miffed? They are doing the best possible with the technilogical limitations they have. If the Duel processor G4 is better, why would you complain when currently it is the only option. Do you think that apple is purposely not putting the G5 in the power book? Of course not. It will happen when it is possible and not one minute before.![]()
insidedanshead said:200Mhz FSB? *Yawn* Gonna need to do better than that Freescale.
Frobozz said:Well, this counts as the first interesting post on MacRumors in about a month and a half now... it's been a snooze fest until today.
JoePike said:I sure hope they figure out a way to put a G5 in the powerbook. These dual core G4's would be phenomenal additions to the emac and ibook, but the powerbook is a product geared towards professionals and should have the top processor running at 64-bits and a bigger front side bus and L2 cache. These dual core chips are admittedly much better than the G4's the powerbooks are currently running on, but the next step has to be the G5, especially now that they put one in the iMac. I'm a little miffed that a consumer product landed a G5 before all the pro macs had them, but given the design complications I can understand. But now that it has been proven that a G5 can be shoved into a small space, Apple needs to get it into the powerbook.
-Joe
AoWolf said:Realistically how long will it take for these chips to get into computers? Would these be faster then single G5s?
Kirtus said:Why are you miffed? They are doing the best possible with the technilogical limitations they have. If the Duel processor G4 is better, why would you complain when currently it is the only option. Do you think that apple is purposely not putting the G5 in the power book? Of course not. It will happen when it is possible and not one minute before.![]()
budugu said:"The new chips offer pin-to-pin compatibility with the MPC7447A, and offer 1MB of L2 cache...."
So does this mean that i can get one of these chips and upgrade my current ibook/power book processor ? so is the bus limitation on the motherboards or on the processor?
Given that i have a lot investedin the G4s i would like to be able to upgrade them!!
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