newbie ppc architecture question

hello

i am curious about the architecture of ppc g5's. having bought one shortly before the intel switch was made i am curious, aside from the speculation that apple will drop ppc support for 64 bit, if the internal architecture of this line is capable of running 64 bit app's? the information on the specs says so - well leads me to believe so as does the rumour posting but...?

if the architecture is capable which it seems like from reading the 'snow leopard post' then could someone clarify/ articulate what apple would have to do to implement it?

sorry if this has been answered before ... but after pages of snow leopard i am still unclear.

thanks

 

if i understand the jist :

g4's and prior are not capable of 64 bit apps but the g5 are if the coding was in place. is that statement accurate?

Eventually elimitating ppc code in future updates is apple's strategy to streamline there software. therefore apple will release an intel only 64 bit os software even though the g5's are capable of handling the 64 bit applications. this is the speculation, correct? then the question is that everyone is debating, is whether the next os release will do that? and if not how long before they do drop that support?


then the speculation is that they will drop it now rather than drag a dead horse, so to speak and hence the rumours mill churning.

is that a fair evalution of the issue?

thanks

just trying to ascertain the life of my g5 quad.

 

i thought that information was not confirmed. perhaps i misunderstood the information from apple and the reason for my confusion on the issue.

thanks for the information.

 

only insofar as audio apps are going to embrace the additional processing power and with that hopefully will come a lot of enhancements. how much the sound quality will improve is the issue for me. i speculated i would get at least 6 years with this beefy a machine. i hoped for more. it is a quad and audio is my main useage. a number of audio guys are still running dual g4's and getting good mileage.

 

i was confused about whether there was some development in 64 bit intel sytems as to make it impossible to port 64 bit apps for ppc machines with 64 bit architecture, g5 (aside from coding for ppc). i was confused if apple had stated they were dropping the ppc code or if it was a speculative train of logic from users in the know.

 

yes but with the increases in speed and the development that goes into the software hopefully the audio engines will improve in most of the daw's ... totally speculative on my part. i heard somewhere that mixing busses internally are 32 bit depth (audio) and that increasing this yields noticeable differences in quality ...don't know if its true or where i read that but if it is then increased bandwidth/speed should make it possible/ practical to implement in terms of audio engine improvements.

mostly..bigger track count, more soft synths and pluggin counts, decreased latency ...very bigg plusses. access to ram above the 4 gig limit . and better use of multicores - this would be very helpful on my current machine.

not that i am not happy with the quality of my machine or software but its unfortunate that the improvement to multicore processor management will not likely get ported for ppc. if it did i would be thrilled as i can still grind my machine to a halt a low latencies and my pluggin counts aren't that high.