Post-Intel announcement PowerPC products

[dogslobber]

If you watch this video then Steve says that they have PowerPC based products about to be announced. None of these made it to market if I recall so I wonder what they were.

 

[647156]

The final-generation "Cypher" G5s (Late 2005 - dual-core processors, PCI Express slots, quad-core option) only became available after the Intel announcement, maybe that's what he was referring to - the transition was much shorter than he said it would be though, so it's possible they were originally planning to release new PowerPC-based systems for longer too.

 

[AphoticD]

Nice share, thank you.

I'm sure there were all kinds of interesting prototypes which never made it out of the vault.

What a great part of history to have lived through

I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.

And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” ~ Steve Jobs

 

[Dronecatcher]

What a great part of history to have lived through

It really was - not just because of Apple but the explosion in mobile tech too - PDAs and the birth of Smartphones - there really was a sense of the future having arrived.

 

[DearthnVader]

I tink Apple was taken aback by how much faster x86 ran the same code.

I know I was.

 

[Amethyst1]

I tink Apple was taken aback by how much faster x86 ran the same code.

I know I was.

I remember occasionally wondering how much faster a 2 GHz Pentium M "PowerBook" would be running OS X and assorted applications compared to, say, a 1.5 GHz G4, prior to the x86 switch announcement.

 

[Adamscomputerrepair]

Using a 2005 PowerBook G4 to copy things to a 2008 MacBook logic board (I’m experimenting with parts to probably make a desktop out of a laptop. Stay tuned) the differences were like night and day. Not only did SL feel like a lightning fast Leopard, but even with a mechanical hard drive the MacBook blazes past the G4. Still love my 15 inch G4 though. Also FYI I didn’t butcher a MacBook to do this little experiment. I have several donor boards and honestly don’t want to spend money to make them whole MacBooks again. But I also believe it’s a shame to be wasteful so I’m trying to make a media PC.

 

[dogslobber]

Can SSDs be used in PowerPC Macs? E.g. an iBook? Sorry for off topic.

 

[AphoticD]

Can SSDs be used in PowerPC Macs? E.g. an iBook? Sorry for off topic.

Sure thing. Check this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/post-your-ssd-cf-sata-pata-powerpc-benchmark-results.2063361/