PowerMac G5, iMac G5, eMac Specs

[SiliconAddict]

OK...

EVERYONE NEEDS TO TAKE A CHILL ON THIS FREAKING CORE IMAGE THING.

If your GPU is not supported, you CPU will handle the graphic task.

CHILL.

Ugh. 😡

Well hell. Lets all just ditch the notion of the GPU. Its an overrated concept anyways. The CPU can obviously handle any graphics task that is throw at it. *slaps forehead* What the heck was I thinking?!? 🙄

 

[iGary]

Well hell. Lets all just ditch the notion of the GPU. Its an overrated concept anyways. The CPU can obviously handle any graphics task that is throw at it. *slaps forehead* What the heck was I thinking?!? 🙄

Damn right it's overated. Who needs a stinking monitor?

 

[pgre]

DANG! I was thinking the same thing. Except your numbers are a bit higher then mine. 😀

But the Mac is designed for all ages right ? 🙂

 

[Cooknn]

But the Mac is designed for all ages right ? 🙂

I watch my 10 year old as he types while playing World of Warcraft - just about the same as the post you're referring to 😱

 

[ManchesterTrix]

Well hell. Lets all just ditch the notion of the GPU. Its an overrated concept anyways. The CPU can obviously handle any graphics task that is throw at it. *slaps forehead* What the heck was I thinking?!? 🙄

As soon as you figure out how to get a high end video GPU to run in a mini without smoking the entire machine, let apple know.

 

[cube]

As soon as you figure out how to get a high end video GPU to run in a mini without smoking the entire machine, let apple know.

GeForce Go 6800 or Mobility Radeon X800

 

[daveL]

As soon as you figure out how to get a high end video GPU to run in a mini without smoking the entire machine, let apple know.

Don't forget that it can't increase the price of the mini, either.

 

[animefan_1]

macosrumors.com

"upcoming weekend - Friday, Saturday, Sunday - updates: reader mail (send in yours now!), new PowerMac and iMac recon (don't believe everything you've heard this week)..."

I know that their track record is far less than stellar, but the optimist in me is going to probably side with MOSR on these rumors.

Who gets it right this time: Think Secret or Mac OS Rumors?

We'll all know soon enough.


*For other interesting MOSR rumors, check out these links:

http://www.macosrumors.com/20050317.php
http://www.macosrumors.com/20050324.php (for video card rumors/OpenGL)
http://www.macosrumors.com/20050330.php (upcoming desktops)

 

[deadfrog]

Thought this year was supposed to be the year of High Definition.... none of the rumours mentioned anything about it though, just wondered if anyone had any ideas on whether its likely or not especially in the imac....

am kinda thinking the gpu would have to be alot better to handle all of it and would the 9600 be able to cope?

 

[iGary]

I love MOSR, so VAGUE.

 

[Cooknn]

Thought this year was supposed to be the year of High Definition.... none of the rumours mentioned anything about it though

How about this from http://www.macosrumors.com/20050317.php

On the HD Video front, Apple is reportedly hard at work in discussions with the world's major video content providers (broadcast, cable, satellite, and emerging internet providers) to create a QuickTime-based (H.264, MPEG-4, QuickTime Streaming Server) "tv network" that will reach the world's biggest market for high-definition video content.

That would be HUGE 😱

 

[dicklacara]

Thought this year was supposed to be the year of High Definition.... none of the rumours mentioned anything about it though, just wondered if anyone had any ideas on whether its likely or not especially in the imac....

Bottom of the page of the first link!

Also, you might want to read this series... here's the latest:

http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/apples_new_tron_bombshell/

 

[JesterJJZ]

And was this little birdie Apples Marketing/manfacturing team.. or did they have little stubby wings and a red breast.

You can't make a statement like that without giving us some sort of story...
Then and only then can we either start ripping your statement to bits or simply perpetuate the romour mill. 🙂

I live pretty much down the road from the IBM Fishkill Fab and know a guy that works there. Granted he couldn't say anything, though when I asked if we'll see dualcore in this revison, the look on his face wasn't too promising.

 

[ManchesterTrix]

GeForce Go 6800 or Mobility Radeon X800

Sorry forgot the "Without adding signifcantly to the cost of the machine." Adding such a mobile chipset to a machine without raising the price would completely destroy their profit-margin on the product and raising the price to keep the profit margin viable would destroy the entire purpose of the machine which is to be a budget machine.

 

[iGary]

How about this from http://www.macosrumors.com/20050317.php

On the HD Video front, Apple is reportedly hard at work in discussions with the world's major video content providers (broadcast, cable, satellite, and emerging internet providers) to create a QuickTime-based (H.264, MPEG-4, QuickTime Streaming Server) "tv network" that will reach the world's biggest market for high-definition video content.

That would be HUGE 😱

Yeah, they tried that with OS 9 and it FLOPPED. 😉

 

[danm]

I live pretty much down the road from the IBM Fishkill Fab and know a guy that works there. Granted he couldn't say anything, though when I asked if we'll see dualcore in this revison, the look on his face wasn't too promising.

🙁 😡 🙁 😡 🙁 That's all I have to say.

 

[broken_keyboard]

How about this from http://www.macosrumors.com/20050317.php

On the HD Video front, Apple is reportedly hard at work in discussions with the world's major video content providers (broadcast, cable, satellite, and emerging internet providers) to create a QuickTime-based (H.264, MPEG-4, QuickTime Streaming Server) "tv network" that will reach the world's biggest market for high-definition video content.

That would be HUGE 😱

They already tried that once before, remember Quicktime TV?
Meh.. TV is boring. If Apple announces a TV initiative I will change the channel.

 

[Cooknn]

They already tried that once before, remember Quicktime TV?
Meh.. TV is boring. If Apple announces a TV initiative I will change the channel.

I wasn't on a Mac back then. No idea what that was about.

Today I have a 50" HDTV and an HDDVR at home. There's hardly anything to watch or record. You can pay for Hi-Def HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc. - it doesn't matter. I look forward to the day when I can navigate my televisions integrated program guide to an iTunes style movie store and pick what I want to watch when I want to watch it in Hi-Def. Not just movies either, I want sporting events too. Want to watch game 7 of the 1991 World Series? Fire it up. How about Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the 1953 classic Roman Holiday - no problem. That's my dream. I think Apple can pull it off 😱

 

[ShnikeJSB]

GeForce Go 6800 or Mobility Radeon X800

Except that those are PCI-Express... 🙄

 

[dicklacara]

They already tried that once before, remember Quicktime TV?
Meh.. TV is boring. If Apple announces a TV initiative I will change the channel.

Ahhhh... but things are different now!

You may not be aware but Apple already delivers Movie Trailers thru the iTMS. When Tiger & QT7 are released, these will be able to use the h264 codec-- smaller files, faster downloads, higher resolution, scalable

Also, to a large extent, the SDTV & HDTV content creators and distributors are the ones who need the high-performance PMs.

 

[broken_keyboard]

I look forward to the day when I can navigate my televisions integrated program guide to an iTunes style movie store and pick what I want to watch when I want to watch it in Hi-Def.

An iTunes Movie Store is something I'd be interested in. But not TV and not streaming. They would have to be movie files, not movie streams.

 

[broken_keyboard]

Ahhhh... but things are different now!

You may not be aware but Apple already delivers Movie Trailers thru the iTMS. When Tiger & QT7 are released, these will be able to use the h264 codec-- smaller files, faster downloads, higher resolution, scalable

Also, to a large extent, the SDTV & HDTV content creators and distributors are the ones who need the high-performance PMs.

Definitely H.264 could be the key to a movie store. The other piece of the puzzle would be an Airport Express with video out, to make the TV a network device, much like the current Airport Express does with the stereo.

 

[FaasNat]

Non-Mac video cards...

I guess the video card wouldn't be so much of an issue for me if I didn't have to purchase a Mac edition video card. The same card, but for the other platforms, sell for a fraction of the price and there is a lot more to choose from. Why can't they just figure out this ROM/driver thing and let us use the video cards that are out there and not just "Mac edition" ones?

If it's true I'm very disappointed. After all that time, 3ghz is the bare minimum. We also need more RAM than 512 MB, faster RAM than the PC3200 and the possibility to have more than 8 Gigs. At least the DVD burner is dual-layer. Let's just hope that there will be 2 double core processors in the high-end model.

I had plan to buy the high-end model but I'm not sure anymore, I think I'm gonna wait even more. 🙁

I just checked on the ATI website and I didn't find anything about the 9650 video card. Does such a card exist? And now that the 9800 is not the best one from ATI, maybe Apple could afford to put that one in the high-end model. Let's hope that we could upgrade for the 9800 PRO for a very low cost.

And there is no way I'm gonna buy a new computer with a AGP video slot. No way.

 

[MarkCollette]

broken_keyboard, I sometimes disagree with daveL and he sometimes makes comments that border on the insensitive, but I'd guess that you are not really in the target market for a Power Mac if you don't understand the advantages that multiple threads and dual processors allow. You apparently don't need to edit and process media (video, image, and/or audio) while you check email and work on that next graphics presentation for your boss. If all these tasks are running in the background and you still want to be able to have a responsive system to perform yet another job (like rip that new CD you just purchased and compress it for iTunes), then you would appreciate a dual G5 system that runs on a multi-processing OS.

Of course this just illustrates that for some, a faste single core is best, and for others, a slower dual core is best. That's why selling 3 models of PowerMac sucks. It would be nice to be able to BTO from 1.8 GHz, 2.0 GHz, 2.2 GHz, 2.5 GHz, 2.7 GHz with 1-2 CPUs, and dual core or not.

 

[iGary]

Of course this just illustrates that for some, a faste single core is best, and for others, a slower dual core is best. That's why selling 3 models of PowerMac sucks. It would be nice to be able to BTO from 1.8 GHz, 2.0 GHz, 2.2 GHz, 2.5 GHz, 2.7 GHz with 1-2 CPUs, and dual core or not.

That's always been the setup. 🙂