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PowerMac G5 Update?
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hundenapf said:
I've seen numbers over 600 watts for the G5 powersupply, but I think those were just calculated by multiplying out the amperage & voltage listed for the machine. That wouldn't account for the inefficiency of the powersupply (typically good powersupplies are about 65% efficient).
450 W of power to the motherboard seems about rite.
pjkelnhofer
macrumors 6502a
iriejedi
macrumors 6502a
So much for a good reason
Well so much for a good reason to limit quality of vidoe card...Apple has no idea how to please its customers. TOL should be TOL. From video card to processor... all the best I say.
Well at lest once can lower card qality, save money and then upgrade to X800 on their own.
(TOL - top of line)
ffakr said:
Well so much for a good reason to limit quality of vidoe card...Apple has no idea how to please its customers. TOL should be TOL. From video card to processor... all the best I say.
Well at lest once can lower card qality, save money and then upgrade to X800 on their own.
(TOL - top of line)
if this setup is true, dual 1.8, 2.0, & 2.5's, then it is dissappointing. it's nobody's fault, but it is dissappointing. its like the movie that has a lot of hype, and looks awesome in the trailer, and then when you see it, its ok.
its not that i'm dissappointed in general with apple, actually i thin they're done a wonderful job, coming back from near bankruptcy, in the late 90's.
but steve did promise 3Ghz, and it is dissappointing that, after an entire year of no updates, it wouldn't even be close (2.5Ghz).
2.5Ghz is fine...a dual 2.5 Ghz is an awesome machine in fact. i wish i could afford one right now. ist just that apple was doing such a great job of catching up (perception of everyone else) to intel, interms of speed. i know the dual 2.5Ghz would kick tyhe crap out of intel;'s best right now, but from the shareholder's point of view, and investors, and the layman in general, apple is behind.
my 2 cents....
-dornball
its not that i'm dissappointed in general with apple, actually i thin they're done a wonderful job, coming back from near bankruptcy, in the late 90's.
but steve did promise 3Ghz, and it is dissappointing that, after an entire year of no updates, it wouldn't even be close (2.5Ghz).
2.5Ghz is fine...a dual 2.5 Ghz is an awesome machine in fact. i wish i could afford one right now. ist just that apple was doing such a great job of catching up (perception of everyone else) to intel, interms of speed. i know the dual 2.5Ghz would kick tyhe crap out of intel;'s best right now, but from the shareholder's point of view, and investors, and the layman in general, apple is behind.
my 2 cents....
-dornball
like "whatever"
dude thay promised a f**kin 3 gz, whatever i still want one.
Hey i still wanna no about that imac on that drug... whats its callled... oh ya... G5 🙂
dude thay promised a f**kin 3 gz, whatever i still want one.
Hey i still wanna no about that imac on that drug... whats its callled... oh ya... G5 🙂
paulypants
macrumors 6502a
....
maybe Apple is having trouble updating their site. Wasn't iTunes 4.6 supposed to be posted yesterday also?
wishful thinking, i know, but i couldn't resist 🙂
maybe Apple is having trouble updating their site. Wasn't iTunes 4.6 supposed to be posted yesterday also?
wishful thinking, i know, but i couldn't resist 🙂
well, I'm just happy I checked out macrumors today and got wind of that rumor. so I was able to cancel my dual 1800 order I was scheduled to pickup that afternoon for 2500euros (2800$). Man, that would have been a bummer, wouldn't it?!
I have to admit, I'm a bit out of the loop, I'm far too busy solving simultaneous equations. At what time of day does Apple update their pages to reflect new items, in GMT? I need a new G5 ASAP, the numbers in my simultaneous equations are getting out of hand and 64-bits will do the trick!
What I'm wondering is, the current top GPU for the PowerMac is a BTO Radeon 9800 Pro, after 10 months, assuming the non-BTO is a 9600XT and the BTO is a 9800XT...that just seems...well unimpressive? What would be even remotely impressive would be an AIW 9800XT, but I still think upgrading from Pro to XT in 10 months isn't all that spectacular. I'm more excited about the AE and Tiger than I am about the PowerMacs, it should be the other way around. 🙁
ProfSBrown said:
The AirTunes device was released, apparently, at noon Central Standard Time yesterday.
I think we won't get an announcement today. I believe Thinksecret said it slipped to tomorrow. I'd give it one more day than assume WWDC.
I did have a thought today.. It looks like Apple is stringing out a whole bunch of releases to build up for WWDC. Hardware yesterday, maybe the G5 tomorrow. It looks like iTunes Europe will be next Tuesday.
IF Apple is actually trying to do a sustained shock and awe of product releases for 3 full weeks, I'd expect we'll see an iMac bump.. maybe iTunes Canada.. maybe xGrid (currently at Preview 2).. new monitors?
how could they sustain 2-3 releases per week for another 2 1/2 weeks?
ffakr said:
Not only that, but you end up thinking 'what the hell are they going to talk about at WWDC?'. They won't just regurgitate whats been released in the upcoming weeks surely, so they've obviuosly got some massive great, earth shattering, world-changing stuff to talk about 😀
For everyone saying that this isn't possible because of the 1250 MHz bus speed, I thought that the G5's bus speed wasn't going to scale beyond 1 GHz. If so, that would make the 2.5 more logical than a 2.6- you get 2.5 GHz from a 1 GHz bus and a 2.5 multiplier. And, come to think of it, you can get 2 GHz from a 2.5 multiplier and a 800 MHz bus...
Frobozz said:
Exactly. Two to three different rumor sites all getting slightly different 'imminent upgrade info' on the same day. Sounds like Apple is using this comming update to try and flush out the rat's.
The article was on appleinsider, the 'retail store revenue to double in 2005'. "On a side note, reliable sources warned that Apple may have varied some of the figures presented at the meetings (on a store to store basis) in an effort to flush out media leaks from its Apple Retail employees.
Hector said:
*blinks* huh?
The fastest contemporaneous Opterons will be faster than the 2.5GHz G5 for most things, with the exception of DSP codes (which the PPC97x rocks at), unless IBM and Apple dramatically re-engineered the system between the 2.0GHz and the 2.5GHz version of the processors. And Opteron SMP scales much better than PPC SMP currently.
It isn't a competition. Apple's strength is its OS, which makes a superior workstation environment.
so....
I want my damn dual 1.8 g5 already. when are they dropping the price for this? when are they going to be available?
i never had enough money gor a 3ghz anyway so bring on the price drop!!
do i still have to wait for wwdc?
I want my damn dual 1.8 g5 already. when are they dropping the price for this? when are they going to be available?
i never had enough money gor a 3ghz anyway so bring on the price drop!!
do i still have to wait for wwdc?
Macrumors said:
Now that's not right, why in the world would they be sticking in GPU cards that are more than a year old? At the very least the ATI 9800 should be in the low end, and hopefully the newer x300 or x600 (dare I request the x800?) in the higher end models.
Also, no mention of mobo upgrades...if this is the best Apple can do, I guess I'll hold off another year or so to upgrade my aging system. Maybe by then G4 xserves will get cheap 😉
ProfSBrown said:
Tiger and the G5 iMac. A minor speed bump to the towers isn't worth mentioning.
AidenShaw
macrumors P6
64-bits will have to wait
These are still 32-bit OS X systems.... No change from today's OS X.
An Apple employee told me that the roadmap for 64-bit support will be announced at WWDC.
And yes, he said "roadmap" to be announced, and not "64-bit OS X" to be announced.
ProfSBrown said:
These are still 32-bit OS X systems.... No change from today's OS X.
An Apple employee told me that the roadmap for 64-bit support will be announced at WWDC.
And yes, he said "roadmap" to be announced, and not "64-bit OS X" to be announced.