From 2 to 3GHz in 12 months?

[jayscheuerle]

Re: 4GHz within 18 months?

Originally posted by Panther 970
This is consistent with Moore's law that clock speeds should double every 18-24 months.

Moore's Law says nothing about clock speeds. It says that transistor density doubles every 18-24 months. There's some correlation there, but they don't necessarily go hand in hand.

Personally, I've grown to take anything Steve says with a grain of salt. He's a salesman and a great storyteller, besides, any G4 tower would be an improvement for me!

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by trebblekicked
i agree; good things!
i rememeber a while back you said you were thinking about buying a rev. a 970. did this roadmap make you think twice?

i'm still holding out for rev b, but i may as well wait for the first speed bumps.

Rev A. might still happen - I've come to find out that I need a faster machine soon - but I won't buy one until they become available and I see how they're actually doing. Probably get one in September.

Besides, I don't want to order one now and then have to worry about when its delevered, what delays Apple will have, etc. I got the rev a. G4 almost 4 years ago and that was a disaster in terms of delivery.

D

 

[crassusad44]

I belive it's quite possible we'll see a 3GHz G5 in 12 months, or less. Remember, the PPC970 was not meant to go into production until Q3 2003. It was not supposed either to go beyond 1.8 GHz.

I do not think it's impossible that IBM manages to deliver faster chips (maybe even beyond 3 GHz) earlier than the roadmap states...

Time will tell, but this is interessting times indeed.

 

[jayscheuerle]

Originally posted by crassusad44
Remember, the PPC970 was not meant to go into production until Q3 2003.

Isn't August Q3 2003?

 

[crassusad44]

Originally posted by jayscheuerle
Isn't August Q3 2003?

Like in production of the processor...
If the PPC970 had gone into production in Q3 2003, we might have seen a G5 Mac released sometime by the end of the year, not announced in June, and shipping in August.

 

[LimeLite]

I don't know if anyone has brought this up yet...but I bet you that XP is not optimized for 64bit, nor can it be updated easily to be. This means that the soonest that PC's OS could really take advantage of the 64bit processor would be in 2005...right?

 

[jelloshotsrule]

Re: G5 / G6

Originally posted by rampel
Excuse me but, what the ∂ does it matter what it will be called?

The important will be what it will be able to do

Excuse me but, what the &#8706 does it matter if i ask what it will be called?

The important will be that i am just asking a question out of curiousity, and it could affect whether they release a new case, etc

 

[couch potato]

cool🙂

 

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by LimeLite
I don't know if anyone has brought this up yet...but I bet you that XP is not optimized for 64bit, nor can it be updated easily to be. This means that the soonest that PC's OS could really take advantage of the 64bit processor would be in 2005...right?

my guess is that there will be a 64 bit optimized windows in golden master by sometime in 2004

AMD has the athlon 64 which is backward compatible with 32 bit apps but the next processor down the line will be only 64 bit and windows will have to be also

we have a jaguar now that is optimized for the 64 bit G5 processor and that's good and i am sure apple had this all planned from way back

right now, mac leads the pack...until AMD gets their new consumer 64 bit processor out and then it's a war again

 

[Fender2112]

Originally posted by crassusad44
Like in production of the processor...
If the PPC970 had gone into production in Q3 2003, we might have seen a G5 Mac released sometime by the end of the year, not announced in June, and shipping in August.

I think the point is that the G5's will "ship" to customers ahead of the ealier predicted schedule.