Steve Jobs to Keynote WWDC 2005

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Hello all,

This is my first post here. I am currently a PC user looking to buy a new laptop and I have sworn to myself that whatever I get, it won't be running that POS OS by microsoft...

Hear me apple, build new pb g5's like above and they will come. I will be handing out my credit card on the 7th to the nearest apple store

I am so with you on this. If the PB's get a G5 upgrade I'm placing my order the same day. I'm not expecting it, but it would be a rather pleasant outcome.

The catch might be that they won't ship for ages, or come in at some hideous price, of course. The joys of computing...

 

[gregoryp]

8641D Sighting

Looks like Apple will have to share the Freescale Dual core with the U.S. Military if it wants to put them in upcoming PB's and Mini's (beats sharing the IBM PowerPC with Sony, Toshiba and Microsoft?).

I have no idea what I'm reading, but it does seem to offer details about the chip's performance and how it is being used and implemented.

Announced, but not yet available. From a recent press release put out by Curtiss-Wright, maker of single board computers and other cool stuff...

VITA 46 Signal Processing Engine CHAMP 6
The CHAMP 6 will be a quad FreeScale 8641 processor design, available in both 8641 single-core and 8641 dual-core versions. With four dual-core processors, this card represents the largest increase in processing Curtiss-Wright has offered between generational upgrades of a product. Memory intensive algorithms will benefit from the very high 9.6Gbytes/sec bandwidth provided by the 8641’s dual memory controllers, more than four times the current capacity of the 7447/7448-based CHAMP AV-IV. The card will also support on-board PCIe based XMC sites (VITA 42).
The CHAMP 6 will feature Serial RapidIO interconnect to support tying many boards together in large multi-board DSP clusters. The card will also support PCIe connections to permit interoperability with PCIe based peripherals and SBCs. Curtiss-Wright will support the CHAMP 6 with its popular Inter-Processor Communications Software (IPC) library, and DSP function libraries enabling customers to seamlessly migrate applications developed on the current generation of PCI/StarFabric based quad processor designs.

 

[gregoryp]

...and another thing...

Sorry for the lengthy post, but who is Pegasos and Genesi? http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php

Open Desktop Workstation?
http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php

Apparently they are currently demo-ing their latest 7448 based PC.

I was kind of evesdropping...
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/ne...id=3515&forum=2&start=0&viewmode=flat&order=0

Dual core in the works, but not expected til next year sometime.

I guess that's it. No dual core PB's until 2006. We'll have to make due with the New and Improved 7448 this time around.