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WWDC 2005 Approaching

gsdali said:
The bus speed of the 7448 is 200Mhz which means 2 Ghz witht he same multiplier. 200Mhz is still pretty bad. The Pentium M has an FSB of 400Mhz or 533Mhz. This is where the G4 falls down. It must spend half it's cycles drumming its fingers waiting for stuff to turn up from memory. The 8641D has dual on board 64bit DDR2 memory controllers runing at 667Mhz and that would scream. Still no chance of it happening.
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Yeah, but I thought part of that was alleviated by the bigger L2 cache in the 7448. How much l2 cache does the 7447A have?
 
7447A has 32kB L1 512kB L2
7448 has 32kB L1 1MB L2
e600 cores are the same of which the 8641D has two.

Sorry I made a really crucial error there.
 
gangst said:
Even so...if the fastest current Powerbooks are running at 1.67ghz and motorola rates them at 1.42, then that means that Apple runs them 1.176x faster than moto does, if Apple runs these new 7448's 1.176x faster that still means we are only at 1.76ghz, ok they may have a bigger L2 cache and aa faster FSB (that will improve the Powerbook drastically), but other than that I don't think that makes enough change to CPU speed for Apple to only run 7448's at 1.76ghz. Anyways we'll find out next Monday.
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or 1.8 ;)
 
xrayzed said:
The fact the story was logged "CUPERTINO, California—June 7, 2005" should have been a hint the author was messing with you. ;)

Still, we can always hope - until Monday at least, one way or the other.
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It was likely written that way to "hint" at an early "leak" or accidental early "post" to get people thinking it was real but not supposed to be posted till the day after the keynote was given. However, as I said in the other posts, it is terribly riddled with typos, including in the headline ("Availibility") and subhead ("Anticipitated"). Someone was looking for attention. Apple just might give it to them. :eek:
 
wdlove said:
This Eweek article is certainly very interesting. Makes looking forward to the keynote on Monday even more exciting. If correct we may actually see the PPC 970 MP in a Power Mac. Still the PowerBook seems to be a long shot, but with Apple you never know for sure.
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I agree WD. I also think that no news / rumors make it very interesting too.
 
people are saying that because there are no rumors, there must be nothing to report.

I find that very hard to believe. At a Steve Jobs keynote, there is ALWAYS something new announced (software or hardware). There are always rumors for these things.

Usually we get disappointing rumors that are then confirmed at the said event. But we rarely NEVER get any tidbit of news.


I'm hoping my reasoning is pretty accurate and that Apple really does have something in store for us.
 
Now Introducing!!!!

We had the TiBook, then the AiBook. We now present the PowerBook G5 with the new Teflon casing!!!

If your laptop is hot enough to fry eggs, at least they shouldn't stick!!!



:D :D :eek: :D

Max.
 
News/Predictions from Appleinsider

Appleinsider Predictions (article for those who have short-attention spans)

Well it appears that the [possible] rumors of 2 and 4gb shuffles are... reshuffling <drum roll> :rolleyes: That... and that itunes phone rumor that I wish with the white -hot intensity of a thousand suns would just die ;)
 
riversky said:
WOW if this is true. Looks like Jobs believes IBM can't deliver the mobile platform. The dual core Intel Mobile's rock....Does this mean OS X on Dell!!
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This would be a huge announcement for WWDC, if Jobs comes out an mentions a complete processor shift in the next few years. But I wouldnt hold my breath that Apple would ever allow its OS to run on another system. That is the major reason (maybe the only one) to own the much more expensive Apple system.
 
Just because Apple is moving to x86 doesn't mean that OS X x86 will run on PCs. Several things could be done to prevent this. This is fantastic news imo. What would be a better laptop than a Pentium-M Apple laptop?
 
riversky said:
http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM,+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_3-5731398.html?tag=nefd.lede

WOW if this is true. Looks like Jobs believes IBM can't deliver the mobile platform. The dual core Intel Mobile's rock....Does this mean OS X on Dell!!

Wow!
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Well, that will at least the war over which is better Wintell or OS X(on PowerPC) and it will and up on Winows vs. Mac OS X :D :) Which how it should be campered.
Also, that would mean that Apple would be in the same boat as everuone else, which might sound good now but there isn't much room for having better, faster hardware :( With IBM and PowerPC there is always a hope that of better processors than those x86
 
One more thing, why would Apple fight so hard to get as many developers to create software for their platform and then pull 180 on them with different architecture. That would certainly turn most of them away from Apple, if they had to rewrite their apps again.
 
I'm sure you've read the rumors that there was a secret OS X build that ran on x86. It seemed to me like Tiger was a long time coming for what we got <ducks for cover> :eek: My guess was always that Apple was working on Intel compatibility while OS X 10.4 was in development. I suppose that's not the case though, if news.com is correct and these new boxes don't hit 'til 2006. Should be a very interesting week coming up none the less :cool:
 
Cooknn said:
I'm sure you've read the rumors that there was a secret OS X build that ran on x86. It seemed to me like Tiger was a long time coming for what we got <ducks for cover> :eek: My guess was always that Apple was working on Intel compatibility while OS X 10.4 was in development. I suppose that's not the case though, if news.com is correct and these new boxes don't hit 'til 2006. Should be a very interesting week coming up none the less :cool:
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I did read that story. I just feel that this switching platforms is a very risky thing to do, especially for Apple which is know for running on "alternative" hardware which is part of OS X/Apple theme. I have nothing against Intel or AMD, they both make great chips. There is something in switching to new OS and platform that is kind of exiting and surprising. At least it is how I felt when I switched about two years ago.
To be honest here I have to say that do want Apple to have the fastes hardware, but I just don't want it to be on the x86 side. Where is the fun there of being "different."
 
In my opinion...

All I see coming from this is updated iBooks, new iPod shuffles w/ higher capacities, a high end photo editing software (think about it, they have video and audio, yet no image editors?), possibly updates to the Mac minis (More RAM?), and Apple will probably bring out some type of new product we arent expecting. They always seem to.

Hopefully there isnt anything new w/ powerbooks because I just got one lol.
 
A photo editing software would be interesting, but, I'm not sure Apple wants to pee on Adobe's shoes just yet. However, they could also take advantage of the preoccupation of Adobe with the Macromedia acquisition. Adobe just released CS2 which may also be a good way to steal Adobe's thunder.

But I wouldn't put high odds on it.
 
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