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PPC 970 (G5..?) due in September?
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See the two benchmark links I posted under the "Processor Upgrade" thread.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17538
One shows that a dual 1.25 GHz P4 matched a Hyper-Threaded (pretends to be two processors) Intel P4 3.06 GHz machine on a photoshop blur effect and outpaced the P4 3.06 on all the other effects. If IBM keeps the short seven stage pipeline or similar in the 970, with a decent cache and the upgraded front side bus, a 1.4 GHz G5 should be very competitive - especially doubled up.
Re: improvements from 1.8 GHz - It's my impression that the 1.8 GHz 970s are in the proving stages given that samples will ship in Q2 and quantity in Q3. Any higher speed chips will go through a similar process, so a (really) optomistic assessment would be that they'd be available at the end of the year.
There is also another link under that "Processor Upgrade" thread that describes upgrades for chips and notes that the next generation Intel chips for notebooks will have a lower clock speeds as the designs become more efficient.
Are you serious? DOS 6.1 vs BSD 4.4??
Windows ME? XP Pro, I'll debate you... ME??? I won't even waste my time.
you know, that wouldnt be too bad. BUT, i dont think that imac would have procs the same speed as the pmacs. think about now. the imacs have a top speed that is a few mhz below the lowest pmac.
i know that the pmacs are dualies, i have one, but in marketing people see numbers, they dont see things such dual processors or faster FSBs.
we do, but we are geeks. and as for the powerbooks, i think that their top proc would be one below the top pmac proc due to nothing other than heat.
anyways, thats what i think. still its wishful for the end of 03. and hopeffully by the end of 04.
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Back to the original question:
Is MacOSRumors just guessing (like we do) using all rumors (like ours) to come to this conclusion, or is it really possible they have some information regarding the September release date of the PPC 970?
Back to the original question:
Is MacOSRumors just guessing (like we do) using all rumors (like ours) to come to this conclusion, or is it really possible they have some information regarding the September release date of the PPC 970?
The withholding of USB2 is purely political: Apple has been waiting impatiently for the FW2 specs to come out, keenly aware that USB2 has been getting an increasingly large mindshare and been rapidly adopted by accessories producers.
Apple could not be seen adopting USB2 at the same time as - not to mention before! - FW2 because that would be a de facto capitulation, quickly leading to a general abandonment of FW2 (and thus a steady income of licence money for Apple).
Thus, USB2 will probably be included in the Winter updates of PM and iMac; that is, unless Apple decides to nix it and just hold its collective breath until October/November...
One surprising decision, though, has been to use USB1.1 as AirPort Extreme's network printer port - it will be awkward in the future since it would be financially unsound for Apple to launch a minor upgrade of APX until late Autumn/early winter...
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I think this time, Ryan got his "wish list" mixed in with his "intelligence reports".
I've been wishing for Quads since the G4 got stuck at 500MHz; face it, it ain't gonna happen.
Why on Earth should Apple include USB2? What a joke.
Oh yeah, gratuitous flame -
cr2sh, you are a fool, unworthy of a Mac. Take youe E-Machine POS and go away
Zack
I've been wishing for Quads since the G4 got stuck at 500MHz; face it, it ain't gonna happen.
Why on Earth should Apple include USB2? What a joke.
Oh yeah, gratuitous flame -
cr2sh, you are a fool, unworthy of a Mac. Take youe E-Machine POS and go away
Zack