plastique45 said:
Motorola is about to go from 1.67GHz with no L3 cache to 1.7GHz with L3 Cache.... WOW, 30mHz more and 2mb of cache!
actually, the L3 cache makes a huge difference. i have an ancient 667MHz powerbook (that has cache) that is A LOT faster than the first-generation 12" powerbooks that run at 867MHz (about 30% faster clock speed) without the L3 cache.
of course, it depends on the application, but in audio world the L3 cache is a killer.
Bregalad said:
My thinking is that there will be updated PowerBooks this month, but Steve doesn't want to have the whole world watching him try to hype an 8% increase in clock speed.
who cares about the clock speed anyway? if the new powerbooks get L3 cache (as in a rumour) then the chip can actually run SLOWER and still be faster in the real world.
to repeat myself, an older 667MHz powerbook with a L3 cache is a lot faster than a newer 867MHz powerbook without L3. in real world, doing pro audio work. if i can get 10% more processing power by dropping clock speed 20%, then i'm ready to do that. work is done in a real world instead of a fantasy land where bigger is always better.
Bregalad said:
The PowerMacs aren't selling well at all.
that's because powermacs are mainly sold for professionals and most professionals had their hardware purchases on hold for the second G5 powermac revision. now that they did purchase what they needed before the third revision, it is understandable that sales of 3rd rev look bad compared to 2nd rev, which was huge figure if you can remember.
point being, powermac sales tend to be rather linear in the long run. there's nothing to worry; on the contrary, if the 3rd rev powermacs don't sell well, there's going to be a lot of "refurb" powermacs for sale once they release the 4th rev
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aegisdesign said:
Apple are only using 32bit Intel. Xcode2.1 generates 32bit code. They've not said anything about a 64bit transition which will have to be done at some point too. It's going to be a hell of a train ride for developers in the next few years.
so? that tells nothing about the product they're going to release for general public. of course xcode is 32bit right now, as the developer boxes in fact use a 32bit pentium inside. but that tells nothing about the real product, because the whole purpose of those rental developer boxes is to get developers SWITCHING TO XCODE -- and once that transition is completed, apple can add whatever architechture support to the xcode and do the switching work for the developers. majority of software will just run.
point being, the first intel mac apple SELLS might just as well be a custom-made fantasy-land 128bit RISC intel cpu. if software has been developed with xcode, it will compile against that fantasy cpu after xcode update just fine.
get it?
apple has said to switch to intel, but that's all we know. everything else is speculation.
