G5 in January, Awesome G4s next week

[topicolo]

Originally posted by colocolo
Not completely on-topic, but in a conference held on January 1998, Arnoldo Hax, former MIT dean and financial consultor for Motorola, stated that the company did not see good sales coming from the Macintosh platform and would subsequently lower the research and eventually stop producing chips for them. I can't recall dates, but it seems the time would be right about now...

This is not a rumor but a fact, if you don't beleive me just look him up and ask him directly 😀

hey, nice name Colocolo 🙂

 

[jadam]

Originally posted by password
The IBM POWER4 based chips are a long way away. Didn't we hear something about the Motorola G5 last Oct at the same conference? And the Oct before that?

Same with AMD's Hammer.

And the Digital/Compaq/HP EV7 and EV8 Alpha chips, and we all know the EV8 is never going to come out now.

IBM powered Apple desktops are atleast a full year away 🙁

But things aren't all bad, the new G4s that are rumored from Motorola sound good with DDR 333 and an on chip memory controller. Did these also have a longer pipeline? I forgot already.

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This is IBM, READ IBM, not some small company like AMD and Motorolla OK?

The AMD Hammer was a BRAND NEW Design. The G5 from Moto was a BRAND NEW Design. The G5 from IBM is NOT A BRAND NEW DESIGN, its simply a scaled down version of the Power4. and IBM does not lie remember that, there a 100billion dollar a year company ok?

Secondly... errr 1.33ghz????? WHY??? WHY NOT 1.4?????? err you guys dont know what ur talking bout heh.

Anyways! the ibooks WILL be bumped to 900mhz not 800, the current ibooks can go 800 so... new Speed bumbed iMacs... sure that would be good heh. your TiBook rumors are ok also heh.

AND BTW, remember one thing, IBM is gunning for 2ghz with the Power4, the chip is most likely already complete, there just going to release the technical details on it. IBM has way more research projects than Motorolla and these new Power4s are crucial not just for apple but for IBM also.

 

[imamacguy17]

Try this road map (a little more realistic)

First things first. Road map the first had updates like every month for the next year. Product updates from Apple have been roughly (key word in this sentence) 6 months or so apart. second the imac is not going to get a revision until christmas buying season. maybe earliest october. Lets go with this time table for next year


August (either 13th or 24)
Power Mac its gonna be a g4. no doubts about it.
its going to have the improvements in the board to move to the g5 next year.
DDR. Faster Bus. Bigger Cache. Speeds 1.2,1.3,1.4 ghz.

Also on the 24th the official Day of Jaguar (ps. it is shipping on the 17" imacs)
we will see a new device. Remember how steve kinda glossed over the whole
inkwell portion of X.2? at MWNY02 because their is a product tie in. we will see
this most likely on the 24th. Otherwise im going to say on the 1 year aniversary of ipod.

We will see a Xserve day with focus on the Xserve raid unit.


November we will see bumps in the portable line much like last year.
Probably superdrive. for Tibook. Most likely price drop in ibook. Not much minor revision.

MWSF03
we will see the updated imacs. more ram, speaker,isub. bigger better faster.
lets go with 1.2 ghz ceiling.(1.0,1.1,1.2) combo drive on the low end. superdriveon the top three.
faster buss. not 133, but 266.

Seybold we will meet the new Power Mac G5s. IBM shows of the chip October. Apple utilizes them in March.

2002 and 2003 Apple will make great strides in the market place.

Then there is always one more thing... from steve you can not make predictions.
We get what we get when we get it. My calender is probably as whacked as the first one. but dont worry. we will see great things we always do.

 

[Olorin]

The G5

Many of you seem to think that because Apple has had a hard time with the G4 scaling it means that they will continue to have slow CPU's and little upgrades. You will all remember that once apple was ahead of intel, and there is no reason why they couldn't be again. This IBM chip that you talk about is very interesting. Although I do not have any insider info on the chip from what seams to be obvious this will be the next PPC chip to be used inside a Mac. Using this chip fits all sides of the equation that Apple has been trying to solve. I also see this chip coming out very soon. IBM does not talk about upcoming products unless they are almost done. This is a known fact of how IBM works ( at least for the last years here) I can believe that we will see these chips this month although I am not saying I would place a be on it. 😀