On monday Steve will present...

[escwindos]

A Quad Processor G4

I really think that after all rumors and posts on the apple homepage, that the only thing with matches every sentence is a quad processor G4. Let's say 4x 1Gighz.!?!
MacOS X is able to handle 4 or even 8 processors, so that would be the right decission instead of trying to beat the AMD scale (what isn't really necessary --> Megahertz Myth!).
That would be really maclike!

Please Steve!!!

 

[eyelikeart]

wishful thinking

 

[dantec]

Mac OS 10 can handle 32 processors!

Maybe we will se a 32ish (how would you say that word?) processor powermac?

 

[guitarlesson]

Why not? However....

A quad processor PPC, rockin' as it may be, would be very, very, very, very expensive. (note I said "very" 4 times.) Perhaps instead of a 1ghz x4 configuration, a 533Mhz x4 would make more sense. After all, thats a combined power of well over 2 Ghz. Makes my DP 533 seem wimpy. I'd want one.

On another note, a quad, or even 8 processor power mac would fit a market that was speculated over around this time six months ago. Namely, high-end rack-mounted web servers running OS X with Apache. Mac really needs to get in on the buisiness market, and a Rackmount server might be the route to go. Also, an 8 chip rackmount may even attract yet more super high-end multimedia companies, like Maya, into the mac camp.

(PS... Did you know theres a computer at Lucasfilm with over 700 processors?? Unreal!!! Why is it that they couldn't make Jar Jar suck a little less with all that power?)

 

[Beej]

Re: Mac OS 10 can handle 32 processors!

Originally posted by dantec
Maybe we will se a 32ish (how would you say that word?) processor powermac?

Hmm... tricatuple would be 30. I dunno, tricatuple plus a couple more?

 

[benmac]

Here's what you asked for :

Made by muri@mac.com and comes from http://homepage.mac.com/benvp/

 

[Beej]

Is that a floppy drive? It looks to thin to be a zip drive. I can't imagine Apple will start putting flippy drives in their computers again

 

[Ensign Paris]

Doubt we will see Floppys again!

Well, atleast I hope not!

 

[Tommy!]

wow look at all the drive bays that thing has to offer... ::rolls eyes::

 

[dantec]

Neat deisgn... But i'd prefer to see my Quicksilver itstead!

 

[iCinder]

Since i got my iBook i have never needed a floppy disk drive. When i went to make my AMD machine i decided to not buy one and save my money. It was definately a good decision.