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New PowerMac Photos?

elmimmo said:
I hope it is not true, mainly because I think current Power Mac G5 are Babel Towers, waaaaaaay to big. No way I am putting that on or under my desktop. Bring on the cube!
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I disagree, the larger size denotes more power under the hood. The case can be easily upgraded and expanded to the purchasers needs.

I will put my trust in AppleInsider and the photo's for now. Only Apple can be definitive on this matter. Less that four weeks to wait. 🙂
 
wdlove said:
I disagree, the larger size denotes more power under the hood. The case can be easily upgraded and expanded to the purchasers needs.
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Only the G5 is not that expandable. There is still only one optical drive bay and only three PCI slots. There is a large (in the new pics even larger) empty space in the front of the case but we have no idea what is designed to go in there (possibly a 4 x 250GB raid). While a TB of storage would be great, the overall upgrade potential is not that of a similarly sized PC.
 
iriejedi said:
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Well if this post works.... the G5 page on the apple store shows the dual processors STACKED... the old model (right side) only shows one processor
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thats because the old g5 in the ai insier post is the single 1.6 not a dual 1.8/2.0
 
joshuawaire said:
I agree. Steve said 3ghz, we will see 3ghz. Now they may not ship until December, but I think we will see 3ghz.
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Do you think he would announce them if there weren't going to be ready under December? That seems like it would seriously hurt current sales (people complained about waiting three months last year). Unless, they are going to drop prices on current models upon the announcement. How can you say, "You can get a 2 GHz today for $2999 or wait six months and get the 3 GHz for the same price." I know some customers need new computers immediately, but everyone who could put it off would.
 
pjkelnhofer said:
Do you think he would announce them if there weren't going to be ready under December? That seems like it would seriously hurt current sales (people complained about waiting three months last year). Unless, they are going to drop prices on current models upon the announcement. How can you say, "You can get a 2 GHz today for $2999 or wait six months and get the 3 GHz for the same price." I know some customers need new computers immediately, but everyone who could put it off would.
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That was an exaggeration on my part. In the past, Apple has typically underestimated demand for a new product or revision, which then leads to products being unavailable for months. Steve will announce new PowerMacs at WWDC and they will at least ship by September. Just a few more weeks of waiting!
 
SWC said:
I am fairly certain the machine is dual channel already but the reason it has to be installed in pairs is the dual processors...You have to match the quantity of ram for each memory bank for the processors. So you cant have 4 gb in the 4 slots for the first processor and 512 mb for the other processor. The 1.6 does not have to be installed in pairs it can be installed in single sticks.
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I'm sorry, but that is completely false. Each processor does not have its own seperate RAM chips. Dual processor systems have been around for ages, and have never needed RAM to be installed in pairs. The only reason for installing RAM in matching pairs is for dual-channel for motherboards that support it.
 
The Cheat said:
I'm sorry, but that is completely false. Each processor does not have its own seperate RAM chips. Dual processor systems have been around for ages, and have never needed RAM to be installed in pairs. The only reason for installing RAM in matching pairs is for dual-channel for motherboards that support it.
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Uhm, slight correction on your correction, the G5 is dual-channel so that the RAM can actually keep up with the 800Mhz system bus (for the 1.6Ghz G5). The specs Apple released with the G5 last year support this.
 
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their real
 
windowsblowsass said:
their (sic) real
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Not necessarily. I think a cease and desist (C&D) could be issued even if the images were faked (i.e. not a real product). Someone in another thread said that he has seen this happen before. Where a picture of a claimed, future Apple product was posted on the web and Apple sent out a C&D. Then after the images were removed the product was never introduced (suggesting that it never existed in the first place).

More interesting, perhaps, is the fact that CNET.com has posted a news story that is based upon the report from AppleInsider:

"Apple readying new Power Macs?
Photos of a yet-to-be released Power Mac appear in a service manual, fueling speculation that the computer maker is working on an updated version of the machine."

Here is the link:

http://news.com.com/Apple+readying+new+Power+Macs?/2100-1042_3-5226969.html?tag=nefd.top

I think it is possible that CNET wouldn't have published this report unless they had independent confirmation. Although they do cite AppleInsider as the source of the images and the original story.
 
I dont see Apple removing this unless it was the real deal. Rumors are rumors afterall. How often have they done takedowns, and how many of those have been fakes?

Looks like a new G5PM this month 🙂
 
The photos were probably just a placeholder for a draft of the new service manuals. In fact, if you look at the top photo, it has a copper GPU card. The middle one has a blue GPU card with black heatsink, yet no ports coming out of the back to plug into.

Someone at Apple has obviously created a placeholder for the real new PowerMac to prepare the service manual and then replace the phot when they are ready to publish the real deal. I wouldn't put it past Apple to create some confusion and trickery before the keynote. Remember last year when probably the most important announcement of the past 5 years was leaked by a Apple web designer. So they are probably proactively dealing with the rumor mill and intentionally seeding some misdirection while creating great anticipation.

If there is an iMac release along with a PowerMac update this in many ways will be an even more important set of releases than last years for Apple's future. And, Apple needs to do everything they can to start creating buzz around the upcoming announcements.
 
fpnc said:
I think it is possible that CNET wouldn't have published this report unless they had independent confirmation. Although they do cite AppleInsider as the source of the images and the original story.
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CNET, rotflmao, just coming out of your cave?
 
Is the memory installed on the new image completely off or am I just use to installing them in sequential order? To me, it looks like slot 2 & 3 are populated and 1 & 4 are empty.

As for the CNET / News.com article, I don't think there's an independent confirmation on the rumors. If they did, they would have mentioned it, similar to how print media would refer to "anonymous sources".
 
windowsblowsass said:
their real
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It's an Apple stunt, there is misdirection going on here and the sheep are falling for it and then when Steve blows us away at the keynote with something even more radical we'll have forgiven this little trick. Do you really think Apple would wast so much space in a G5 case and come out with an ugly internal design compared to the beautiful internal of the 1G PMG5? Dudes, wake up. That MB was not designed for that case and there is no way that it could have been an afterthought.
 
my two cents.....

.... i doubt jobsey would announce a new powermac and then tell us we have to wait until December for it to ship (some poster earlier flagged this). unless the current line-up was slashed in price by about 50%, no-one would buy a new mac until the revision shipped.

surely Apple has learnt that the second generation of any of their products is more eagerly awaited than the initial release. myself, i don't buy the first release of anything Apple (or microsloth, or Nikon or anything with a silicon chip in), be it hardware or software. i've always waited for the first update before making my decision (then buying the older gear if discounts make it attractivly enough cheaper).

i predict the first batch of the new G5's will sell out very quickly, apple needs to get their sheisse together and make sure they have enough stock of the new machines.

i am using some extremely ordinary celerons in my business at the moment which are in dire need of an update, if i have to wait for availability, i'll wait. while these machines cost me a fortune in downtime (20+ crashes & over 12 hours wasted last production day), i'd rather wait and see whats coming. i already have my order (for two duallies, whatever the one below the top-of-the-line mac is) in at the local supplier, if there are delivery delays, i'll just demand (and get, i love the Consumer Affairs Tribunal) an extra gig of memory in each machine for each month (or part thereof) i have to wait.

don't let me down stevie, announce some nice toys and make sure you can ship them. 😉
 
There will be certyinty at WWDC

No one can tell if the picture is real or not! The thing about "the colours don't look the same" and "the motherboard is TOO small" are just crap.
Just remember the year before: The specification of the new PowerMac's showed up before WWDC had started. Isn't it courious, that such things always happen before big events. Actually I think that they are deliberately, making people hungry and starting posts at rumour sites, which end up with more than 200 comments. Think about it!
 
THIS is the right picture!

Actually, some sources believe this is the sketch we're looking for. Apparently, some Apple geek was digging rubbish bins behind Apple's building in Cupertino and he found this paper in a bunch of banana skins and sushi plastic packages. If sources are correct, ths must be a sketch drawn by Steve himself (well, he is vegan, and banana skins support that theory)! Plus, sushi plastic packages support the theory that Steve had a lunch with Phil Schiller then! (Phil is also known as "sushi guy" between Apple execs!).
So, here it is! Enjoy the future unveiled, Mac users!

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Wouldn't it be a bit more efficient for the thing to make Java? I mean, MacOS X already HAS Java. Right? So are they going to have to make a Espresso driver and language? Good god, it'll take years for them to perfect my espresso maker.

Did I say that out loud?
 
Veldek said:
And why are there only 4 RAM slots? 😕
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Because you are looking at a picture of a single CPU system which has a maximum RAM capacity of 4Gb. (Actually it's 8Gb as it will take 2Gb DIMMS but nobody is supposed to know that).
 
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