IBM's PowerPC 970FX... at 2.5GHz?

[neonart]

Originally posted by invaLPsion
I think Apple is disregarding their consumers for VT instead. The Xserves must already be available if MacMall is able to sell the VT powermacs.

You're right. MacMall's site says shipping will begin the week of Feb 16th- that's tomorrow. XServe's must already be a VT for that to happen. This means that the 970FX is shipping in current machines. Which in turn means that Tuesday Feb 16th we should see announcements for new Towers. (Or I will eat my left buttock.)
At least I think it makes sense? If FX's are in the shipping Xserves, what the heck are we waiting for on the towers?

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Originally posted by army_guy
too far but realistic, think about it. What other show can they announce the PB G5's. OK so availability might be immediate in June/July 5-6 months? Then again DDR2 is gona be expensive hmm. It maybe better to wait until the modules mature enough, iam prety sure it will hurt high BW machines such as the G5/Opteron/FX due to the rediculous latencies in the current 533MHz modules, could be better to wait the the 666/800Mhz DDR2 modules.

World Wide Developer Conference.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Originally posted by army_guy
doesnt the current PB G4 17" feature ATI 9600, lst time I looked it did. THey may or maynot update the graphics chip. In the current powerbooks the 9600 is CPU limited anyway so G5 + 9600 would equal much better performance. Thier is a mobile 9700 but I think heat will be an issue.

I can't find the heat dissipation numbers yet on this chip but the flexibility to connect to HDTV via OEM custom versions as well as configurations of either 64MB or 128MB gives Apple the option of putting this in the upper two laptops.

http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityradeon9700/features.html

 

[Snowy_River]

Re: Re: How about this idea

Originally posted by rdowns
...No underclocked G5s in the iMac line ... Stop crippling this line...

Who said that this would be to cripple the line? Was it crippling the PowerBook line not to put 1.4GHz G4s in them as soon as they were available in the Power Macs? No. It was a temperature issue. The iMacs have similar heat issues to the mobile enclosure, so they need to have slower "underclocked" chips to avoid overheating...

 

[numediaman]

Originally posted by invaLPsion
Nothing, I hope. Because March is a long time to wait. I don't know where you're getting this march release from. Nobody else is saying that.

14 days is a long time? We've been waiting months now!

If you want to credit me for being the one to say "March" then great. But there is a whole thread on the idea of the release date being March 26th -- either here or at AppleInsider.

Why March? 1) Because the 10.3.3 seed was pulled and has not been reintroduced (as far as I know). 2) Because QuickTime 6.5 was pulled for the G5s because it didn't work, and, again, has not been reintroduced. 3) Because G5 users are reporting huge problems with both iMovie 4 and iDVD 4. Revisions will need to be introduced for both, or all of iLife. 4) Because the XServe is just beginning to ship. 5) and because it won't be MWSF, January, or early February. That doesn't leave a lot of options does it?

Does this mean it will be March? No, it could be this Tuesday, or April, or May, or . . .

If the G5s are updated this Tuesday then I will be off by two weeks -- and I'll be as happy as everyone else. If they are announced in March will you buy me a new G5?

 

[invaLPsion]

Originally posted by numediaman
14 days is a long time? We've been waiting months now!

If you want to credit me for being the one to say "March" then great. But there is a whole thread on the idea of the release date being March 26th -- either here or at AppleInsider.

Why March? 1) Because the 10.3.3 seed was pulled and has not been reintroduced (as far as I know). 2) Because QuickTime 6.5 was pulled for the G5s because it didn't work, and, again, has not been reintroduced. 3) Because G5 users are reporting huge problems with both iMovie 4 and iDVD 4. Revisions will need to be introduced for both, or all of iLife. 4) Because the XServe is just beginning to ship. 5) and because it won't be MWSF, January, or early February. That doesn't leave a lot of options does it?

Does this mean it will be March? No, it could be this Tuesday, or April, or May, or . . .

If the G5s are updated this Tuesday then I will be off by two weeks -- and I'll be as happy as everyone else. If they are announced in March will you buy me a new G5?

Apple Insider believes that the releases are "imminent." That is not March. The entire basis of the March 26th thing was that that was when the Australian Trade-up program ended.

No, I will not buy you a G5.

 

[army_guy]

Originally posted by mdriftmeyer
World Wide Developer Conference.

OK iam corrected.

IMO G5 revisions will be available at WWDC together with the annoucement of the PB G5 but id say it will be 1-2 months before they (PB G5) ship and even if they ship straight away they will be gone as to demand or pre ordered into christmass YAH