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PowerMac G5, iMac G5, eMac Specs

FlyNolJ said:
You're right, these "updates," as one could call them, are sufficient enough...for six months ago. No PCI-express, no Blu-Ray. What kind of video card are we gauranteed? Are we even gauranteed the 16x double-layer DVD burner>? If this is all they are putting out after 10 months, then the prices better drop $ 1000 and then MAYBE, we'll have something going for us.
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IMO the prices wont drop significantly. Apple would have updated them more if they could they just didn't have the processors to do it.

It is possible that TS has the cache sizes wrong and these processors are the rumored 970GX instead of 970FX
IF the processors they will be using are the 970GX with 1Meg cache, then this will improve performance more than the speed bump would normally indicate.

I agree that no PCIe is a letdown but it would only be useful for Video cards in the Tower.
 
Ok, Blu-Ray is a little much...

But don't you think we could have more than 200MHZ and a couple hundred megs of RAM after 10 months>??? That's why I'm saying prices better be low low low. By the way, what's IHMO & IMO??????
 
FlyNolJ said:
But don't you think we could have more than 200MHZ and a couple hundred megs of RAM after 10 months>??? That's why I'm saying prices better be low low low. By the way, what's IHMO & IMO??????
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IMO = In my opinion
IMHO = In my humble opinion

I would be surprised if we saw any upgrades before the release of Tiger, as I've said before. Just my 2c.
 
ts1973 said:
IMO = In my opinion
IMHO = In my humble opinion

I would be surprised if we saw any upgrades before the release of Tiger, as I've said before. Just my 2c.
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There isn't any real reason why they couldn't announce before the Tiger release. Just not ship till after the 29th. If there isn't an update till WWDC, would seem to indicate something special. Steve likes to announce the new Mac's.
 
Hey Everybody! I just wanted to tell people that I read the entire thread! I have too much free time. :D
After reading everything, I just hope that I can get a cheap 2 to 2.5 Ghz PM for fairly cheap.
 
~loserman~ said:
I agree that no PCIe is a letdown but it would only be useful for Video cards in the Tower.
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In another thread, some people were pointing out that current graphics cards do not even max out AGP 8X bandwidth, so putting in PCIe won't help anything. Sure, it adds future expandability, but it increases costs in the immediate term with no immediate benefit.
 
With the court ruling against all those RAM manufacturers for price fixing, I think it should be expected that computers will either get price drops or extra RAM, simply because RAM prices should now drop.

That should be in addition to whatever other price drops or upgrades would normally happen from the other components getting cheaper over time.
 
LGRW3919 said:
its getting to the point now of no return. will apple release an updated powermac in the coming week or two or will they wait to WWDC to bust out the big guns?
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Yeah, as someone else pointed out what are they going to show off at WWDC if they release all there hardware in the next week or so...?
 
aswitcher said:
Yeah, as someone else pointed out what are they going to show off at WWDC if they release all there hardware in the next week or so...?
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Come on, you know the answer to that: The PowerBook G5!!!!
 
MarkCollette said:
In another thread, some people were pointing out that current graphics cards do not even max out AGP 8X bandwidth, so putting in PCIe won't help anything. Sure, it adds future expandability, but it increases costs in the immediate term with no immediate benefit.
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Adding FW 800 was just that - adding a cool feature, which was of no use for anyone at the time.

It is a question of overall "freshness" of the design. PC manufacturers win in that field, while Apple is making lots of money on every 100 Mhz increase...
 
Okay, imac shipping on the Apple site just went from same business day to 5 to 7 business days. Updates this week for sure. :D
 
Shipping dates

All iMacs shipping times have changed from "Same business day" to 5-7 days on the Apple Store (USA).

Powermacs still 3-5 for the duals.

Holding my breath...for iMac.

Please Apple!
 
aswitcher said:
Dont you mean "Powerbook Dual Core G5, with HD resolution screen (1920x1080)" :D
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You don't need 1920x1080 for it to be HD

Anything above or 1280x720 is true HD ;)
 
mislead

Maybe we are totaly misled and will they announce new iMac tuesday and wait with powermacs untill the WWDC would that not be fun? ;)
 
UK Apple Store: "Ready to ship: 5 days"........ signifying?????

Probable update: Current line will ship with Tiger pre-installed. :)

If we're real lucky the G5 Towers will get a minor speed bump to 2.7 at the top end. (fantasy land: the duals become single chip machines and run slightly cooler hence the speed bump)

At WWDC we may or may not get the dual cores. (fantasy land: low end macs single chip dual 1.8 2.0 2.2. High end dual duals 2.0 2.3 2.7

:D :D :D
 
uncle said:
UK Apple Store: "Ready to ship: 5 days"........ signifying?????

Probable update: Current line will ship with Tiger pre-installed. :)
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They don't hold shipping to install an OS that hasn't been released yet. They would ship with Panther and update later, just as they are doing with the eMacs. They only delay for an unannounced hardware upgrade that would otherwise necessitate hardware returns from customers who would have outdated computers in transit when the upgrade is announced.

Probable update: Current line (except eMacs) will ship with upgraded specs.
 
aswitcher said:
True but there are degrees of HDTV and 1080i is the highest.
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Yes that might be so......but you said HD and that starts at 1280x720...and anyway do you need that much on a lappy :confused:
 
pknz said:
All iMacs shipping times have changed from "Same business day" to 5-7 days on the Apple Store (USA).

Powermacs still 3-5 for the duals.

Holding my breath...for iMac.

Please Apple!
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Yes, but the BTO's are now 7-10 days.

Could it be??? :D

Finally, an upgrade to my current Apple ... an Apple ][+.
(Yea, really. And it still works fine!)
 
1080p

Well, if we really were to nitpick, 1080p would be the highest current extension to the ATASC HDTV Format (native 1080p in, rather than upconvert to p, as it's done on most TVs that can do all the pixels - LCOS for example - today). But the new DLP models this year are finally 1080(p) as well.
:)
Cheers,
Dan

aswitcher said:
True but there are degrees of HDTV and 1080i is the highest.
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