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More PowerMac G5 Details...

Was anyone actually expecting Blu-ray?

Maybe Apple is saving dual-core for Xserve or a more powerful, workstation model... "Xstation"?
 
Price Drop

The powerbook line is also weak, but the current prices reflects that.

Maybe we will get a nice price drop on the powermac line too!

Or a free ipod, everyone still likes those, right?
 
Apple should just dump the G5/970Fx or 970MP or whatever, and just go directly to using the Power5s.
 
Well... there were the Apple dev tools that had support for 4 processors.
And also OS 10.4.1 supposedly included a new version of DVD Player that supports HD DVD drives.

So there's two pieces of evidence directly from Apple that suggest better things in the works.
 
I just hope that Apple's pressure on Think Secret has invalidated its information and the truth is a lot more impressive than the rumors tell. Steve promised 3 GHz G5s by around the end of summer 2004. At this rate we won't even hit that a year late. I was really excited about the IBM G5 deal but my excitement is waning. Please boost my confidence.
 
BREAKING NEWS

STEVE JOBS ANNOUNCES THAT:
"We've committed before the end of next summer" to get the Power Mac G5 to 3GHz.

Wooooo!

Too bad this was 2003.
And we still haven't hit it.
And there are no dual core chips.
And the only thing we are looking forward to is the weakest update to Mac Os X yet.

We are really falling back again guys, we need a 3 GHZ chip, and we also need dual cores soon.

Hyperthreading kicked and we responded with silence.
Dual Cores will not no quietly, they actually make a performance difference.

We need new machines now, with better equipment then the rumors are predicting.
 
in the past when the hardware hasn't been that impressive Apple have stuck in dual CPU's to compete with the higher Pentium speed.

Maybe this time around we'll get three or four to compensate! 😀
 
Sad...... 🙁 well apple has really prooven very little with this new G5..they put it in the Powermac..reached 64bit before everyone else and since then they have gone up by 700MHZ... In two years....
 
Lacero said:
Apple should just dump the G5/970Fx or 970MP or whatever, and just go directly to using the Power5s.
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Are Power5's even released? I think if they were and were attractively priced apple would have already
 
I have to bite the bullet at the end of this month and get what ever PMac I can for £1,300. Already thinking of selling a kidney ready for WWDC 2006 when Apple can hit back at the PC's........I hope.
 
They should really wait until 3GHz is available, but with the current pace, maybe that'll be next year...
I still pray for DualCore, then Apple would be foregiven!
Else, only a MAJOR price drop would justify this pathetic revision.
 
I think IBM needs to hire some people that are as smart as those at AMD and Intel.

PS. Why is MR so slow today? Is Arn playing Doom 3 on the server?
 
Good news for me...

Yay, iMac updates in two weeks.

I am a student and there is no way I can fit a PM into my shopping list. It does suck for apple as a whole though because of the competition. Maybe this is the calm before the storm, They may just blow us away in september.
 
vouder17 said:
Sad...... 🙁 well apple has really prooven very little with this new G5..they put it in the Powermac..reached 64bit before everyone else and since then they have gone up by 700MHZ... In two years....
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Has Intel's top chip increased more than 700MHz in the last 2 years? They were either at 3.06GHz or 3.2GHz I believe at the time that the 2GHz G5 was first introduced. So it's not like they're doing any better...
 
I think they should just do a price cut instead of this. a price cut would get those not obbsessed with Apple to buy newly lower priced machines and give us that are obbsessed (and would hold our money on such a depressing upgrade as this any) something to look forward to.
 
Ouch - I really hope this is smoke. 10 months for such a small little bump - at least they could have added a PCIe to the board - something. I have some thinking to do - maybe even the GX chip, but essentially a small speed bump from 10 months ago - ouch....🙁
 
broken_keyboard said:
I think IBM needs to hire some people that are as smart as those at AMD and Intel.
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Didn't I hear somewhere that Mac OSX could run with CPU's other than IBM with some tweeking? If this is true IBM had better stop picking its nose and scraching its arse and GET BACK IN THE GAME!!!!!!
 
Every thread that brought up dual cores I was like:
"Oh no they in'nt!"
and you were all like
"Oh yes they is!"
and now i'm like
"Oh no they in'nt!"

Seriously, the hardware is great already. And when the dual cores come, it'll come with all the other good stuff, and it'll be great.
 
My next Mac will be a PowerMac

But it sure won't be THIS PowerMac 😀 POWER5/G6 for me!

It seems as though PowerBooks AND PowerMacs may be back in "hang in there" mode for most of this year. "Hang in there" until the REAL, major boost, whatever and whenever it may be. Buy if you need a tower now, wait if you can wait.

We may know tomorrow...

The irony of this if true:

* Apple's consumer appeal is snowballing no matter what happens to the pro lineup

* Apple's pro SOFTWARE to run on that pro hardware just gets more and more impressive!

PS, I thought Blu-Ray drives ALONE cost about as much as a PowerMac so that always sounded too soon to me. (Then again, SuperDrives cost MORE than a PowerMac when Apple added them, I seem to recall.)
 
Apple is just testing the loyalty of its fan base...

... at least, that's what I hope.

This gives me another reason to blow off purchasing a PM until I'm 1) Done with college, 2) Done with OCS at the Air Force... which will both be done in about two years.

This is ridiculous. 😡

Those Wintel trolls are probably having a laugh at us right now. It kind of makes me embarssed to own a Mac because aren't we supposed to be on the forefront of personal computing technology? Has Apple stuck all its stakes on selling great MP3/MP4 player and chosen to lay its true calling of advanced personal computing to the cheap, generic plastic PC assemblers just to sell a few iPods? Good thing I didn't decide to buy any Apple stock.
 
I think the lack of PCI Express and similar technologies is almost just as dissappointing as the lack of better CPUs. C'mon, Apple... get your head in the game. Everyone is moving to PCI-E.
 
This is pathetic.
I am still hoping there are unreliable sources TS are getting this info from, i understand if the cpu's can't maybe go to 3ghz or dual core.....but then Apple give us the best periphals and extras. Pci-express, dual-layer dvd-r or Blue ray writers, faster 10k hd's e.t.c e.t.c
We have the best software available in all areas, yet hardware that is again outdated
 
I actually feel like swearing! If this is true, how does it relate to Steve standing on stage in 2003 and bragging about 3Ghz machines in 2004? He may well be 2 years late in his prediction!

I've put off buying for over a year already, and now this pathetic revision!

Apple need to get off concentrating on consumer lines (iPod, Mini) and supply it's loyal pro users with machines that they want and need.

****! There, I've said it!
 
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