iBook G4 on Apple's Website!

[iJon]

Re: Pete Your A Loser

Originally posted by brandon_deal
It is obviously a Typo, you must be trippin

you know ive seen a quite a few of your posts today. and they have all been negative and almost towards a person. why would you dig up this thread from so long ago just to call some a loser.

iJon

 

[ibookin']

Re: Re: Pete Your A Loser

Originally posted by iJon
you know ive seen a quite a few of your posts today. and they have all been negative and almost towards a person. why would you dig up this thread from so long ago just to call some a loser.

iJon

Yeah, it was kind of weird to see this thread reappear after looking at it MONTHS ago.

Although it is interesting that Aspyr requires a G4 chip and Apple says that it will work on an iBook...

Hmm...

 

[ftaok]

Originally posted by QCassidy352
Furthermore, IBM has said in the past that it could "easily" push the Sahara G3 chip to 2 Ghz. Do you know how sweet a 2 Ghz ibook with a 200 mhz bus would be? There's no reason that the ibook, or the G3, should or will die anytime soon. Who cares how old it technically is. A 2 Ghz Sahara G3 with a 200 mhz bus would walk all over the current powerbooks in most tasks.

That's just IBM talking out of their butts.

Why would the Sahara be able to run at 2ghz when the the replacement chip (the Gobi) is expected to run at speeds "up to 1.1ghz"? Here's an up-to-date LINK from IBM.

The reason that the iBook is at 900mhz is because IBM has only been able to get the Sahara to 900mhz. However, the 100mhz bus is totally Apple's doing.

 

[akushlan]

T to the Y to the P to the O

 

[icetraxxg5]

Originally posted by ftaok
That's just IBM talking out of their butts.

Why would the Sahara be able to run at 2ghz when the the replacement chip (the Gobi) is expected to run at speeds "up to 1.1ghz"? Here's an up-to-date LINK from IBM.

The reason that the iBook is at 900mhz is because IBM has only been able to get the Sahara to 900mhz. However, the 100mhz bus is totally Apple's doing.

I thought the saraha maxed out at 1GHz...

 

[ftaok]

Originally posted by icetraxxg5
I thought the saraha maxed out at 1GHz...

That's what IBM had said way back in 2001. But looking at their latest documentation, it looks like they've stalled at 900mhz.

As for what the cause of the stall is/was, that's up for debate. Perhaps Apple told them that they wouldn't be buying any more 750FXs so IBM stopped developing them in favor of the 750GX. Who knows?

 

[snahabed]

Haha I noticed this guy replying to age-old posts too, just to post some meaningless comment. Some people need a hobby!