G5 announced Jan, Available Feb / Mar

[newamiga]

In reviewing the Motorola Europe Comments on CNN there has to be a G5

Take a closer look at the Moto Europe comments on the G5 on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/03/G5.mac.idg/index.html
The guy says that there is still a lot of head room left in the G4 but describes this as topping out a 1 Ghz.. sorry but barely doing 1 Ghz wit exising G4's is not going to blow anyone away. We will see G5 at least demoed for later shipping at MWSF.

 

[seanos]

The amazing truth behind the G5

What Steve Jobs will be announcing is that Mac OS X will be shipping later this month on a P5, not a G5. That's right, Mac OS X has been ported to support the Pentium processor.

The desktop G5 will be running at 2.5 Ghz. This will silence the critics once and for all. All newly shipping computers will be completely backwards compatible with the older file formats, drives, etc.

Happy New Year!

 

[Foocha]

Porting??!

Great - just when application developers have started porting their apps to OS X, now everyone will have to compile their apps for Intel on OS X instead.

I don't think Apple could get away with that! Sounds unlikely to me.


[Edited by Foocha on 01-02-2002 at 05:51 AM]

 

[BurntCalc]

A few notes here...

The G5 is a viable chip that has none of the legacy problems of the G4. Only problem is that as of November 2001, it wasn't feature complete enough to put in a desktop machine. However, tests of the chip have yielded chips rating as high as 2.4ghz (that's a very few chips, mind you). This industry moves fast, so it's possible Moto has a viable G5 for a desktop machine.

The Apollo G4 is practically guaranteed. Speeds will debut at 1Ghz, scaling as high as 1.6ghz.

Putting the G4 in the imac has been rumored for some time. i wouldn't be surprised to see it. The G5, however, would be a total surprise. I've heard that Jobs is betting a lot on the G5....

Another consumer device seems likely. No idea what it will be, though. Maybe a "dumb" iTunes player that is like a net-bootable computer, but only through airport... (faster airport??)

Now, to think "realistically" here, our rumors may be way off. Think firewire 2, Airport 2, USB2...

Also, Apple may launch some new type of service for Apple users, along the lines of their iTools. (remember that big server outage???)

What else? The 12-sided enclosure? OSX for PC? I wouldn't count on OSX for PC quite yet.

Well, if even half that stuff came true, i would be pretty happy. I'd personally like to see the G5 towers, G4 iMac, faster airport, firewire, etc... and one new appliance. Then I could die happy.

Or maybe we're missing something. Is there a product X that no one has heard about???