Power5 with hyperthreading

[Mr. Anderson]

This is all well and good - but aren't we jumping the gun a little here? We haven't even seen the 970/Power4 derivative yet, but you're all getting excited about the 980 or what ever it is when IBM makes a Mac version of the Power5.

Its nice knowing that there is a going to be a nice future with IBM chips, but I'd still like to see a new machine.

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[mathiasr]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
This is all well and good - but aren't we jumping the gun a little here? We haven't even seen the 970/Power4 derivative yet, but you're all getting excited about the 980 or what ever it is when IBM makes a Mac version of the Power5.

The 970 is outdated, why would you want to buy this patchwork of crappy POWER4+ and 7410 tech? Just wait an other year (or two) and get the top notch 2.6 GHz, 1 MiB L2, SMT, strawberry-flavoured, hot chocolate topping, brand new, as seen on /. PowerPC 980!

Future ruleeeezzzzzzz, let me out of here!