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It would just be nice to see the 970GX as an available upgrade to the 970 and 970FX in the various Apple G5 machines.
 
Ok, I love this talk about PPC. I'm one of the holdouts on getting an Intel Mac. They just don't seem "right" to me for some odd reason. It's all in my head of course because who really cares what's driving the car as long as you get where you want to go but I am curious about something and I'm not really THAT technical enough to understand it but...Why does my Dual 2.0 G5 PowerMac get smoked by a 2.0 GHz Core Duo 2 MacBook? Same clock speed, the G5 actually has a faster bus, roughly equivalent RAM speed...why the difference in speed?
 
Power6 isn't designed for low-power. so it wont fit in a laptop. apple won't (even if IBM were interested) sell machines with two types of CPUs. its two hard to explain to customers, and it means ALL programs have to be EXTREMELY portable - no Architechture specific code. not to mention

Not to mention the fact that it is impossible unless you want two versions of the operating system running side by side.
 
is it by any chance possible that apple might be putting the g6 chip in there mac pro designs? It would be sweet:D oh and the link is in appleinsider.com

Very unlikely, because there is no G6 chip.

You may be confusing this with the POWER6 processor, which has no chance of ever being sold in a <$10,000 computer.
 
Well, it takes two to tango, and the other party of that relationship will NEVER deal with the other again. Understand?

So I will say NEVER

NEVER
NEVER
NEVER

I agree, Apple is here to stay in the x86 platform. With all of the problems that Apple had with the PowerPC chips in the past up to the G5...They would never go back to that. The thought of any G6 in a Mac is a Pipe Dream as of now.
 
As much as it would excite me to be true, sadly, it won't happen. PowerPCs days as a personal computer are over. If you want any PowerPC machines, look at the Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360, that's PowerPC's future.

In better news, AMD and Apple might be working together in the future. That would be an Apple PC worth owning! Purely all speculation, but I'd rather have an option to Intel, so I hope that rumor may be true someday.

Besides, I'm happy not knowing about computers anymore, I prefer life rather than technology. They're all electric razors, nothing special, nothing different, just casing and names.
 
FTR

Consumer ( and embedded ) PPC processors are NOT POWER(X) processors but derivatives of those architechtures. The G3/G4/G5 monikers were strictly Apple branding ( a PPC 601 would be a G1, PPC 603/604 a G2, PPC 740/750 are G3's, PPC 74XX are G4's, PPC 970 a G5 ).
 
As much as it would excite me to be true, sadly, it won't happen. PowerPCs days as a personal computer are over. If you want any PowerPC machines, look at the Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360, that's PowerPC's future.

In better news, AMD and Apple might be working together in the future. That would be an Apple PC worth owning! Purely all speculation, but I'd rather have an option to Intel, so I hope that rumor may be true someday.

Besides, I'm happy not knowing about computers anymore, I prefer life rather than technology. They're all electric razors, nothing special, nothing different, just casing and names.
False Propaganda.. I use a PowerBook G4 and it works great for my needs. Keep spreading the lies.. bud.
 
Actually, its not a PowerPC by IBM, but its a RISC processor, a cousin to PowerPC - M1 and this proves PowerPC won over Intel, x86 is defeated on Apple.

I stand by what I said:

No.

There was no Power Mac G6. There is no Power Mac G6. There never will be a Power Mac G6.

RISC and CISC are instruction methods, not hardware. Moreover, the first CPU to use RISC was IBM’s 801 chip, at a time when IBM were regarded as Apple’s (and Atari’s, and Commodore’s, and Amiga’s) corporate adversary-slash-juggernaut.

Hope that clears up everything.

And please, for sake of future readers of this and other threads, quit ascribing characteristics of Apple Silicon SoC processors which have nothing to do with the Apple-IBM-Motorola (AIM) alliance started in 1991 and was, de facto, abandoned by 2006. Just… stop it.
 
Y’all… @macbookprodude… I WAS WRONG.

Here’s a used G6 manufactured in 2007… FOR SaLE FOR THE LUCYK G6 ENTHUSIIAST:

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Red as an Apple, this G6 has Power, and its microprocessor running all peripheral components is an embedded PC. It even has rock-solid (trip odo) NVRAM.

APPLE POWER PC G6.
 
False Propaganda.. I use a PowerBook G4 and it works great for my needs. Keep spreading the lies.. bud.

The post which you replied to was written in 2007 and the author's forecast has been validated by history. As we all know, Apple and AMD would go on to form a partnership a few years later and as this forum highlights on a daily basis, PowerPC Macs remain extremely viable but the CPU family is, on the whole, no longer present on new computers that are aimed at the consumer market.

...and this proves PowerPC won over Intel, x86 is defeated on Apple.

No.

X86 ran its course on the Apple computers, just as happened to PowerPC and prior to that, the Motorola 68K range.
 
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