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Apple Demonstrates A Dual-G4 Power Mac

Posted by timothy on from the toldja-so-toldja-so-did-not-did-not dept.

caligula writes: "Just saw this [macnn.com report]: 'Tuesday, May 17 updated 2:30 pm, top stories. During the hardware keynote of WWDC, which ended just minutes ago, Apple demonstrated a dual-processor G4 Power Mac running Mac OS X. Of note to developers is that Cocoa/Carbon applications do not need to be changed in any way to take advantage of multi-processors. Benchmark demonstrations ran roughly twice as fast on the dual-G4 system compared to the single-G4 Power Mac that was on stage. No mention was given as to when these multiprocessor G4s would ship, although it was stressed that it would not be happening any time soon but that they would definitely be out by next year's WWDC.'" JonahLee pointed out a related link on macosrumors.com, and migooch noted this slightly more informative ZDne t story. Mortals still must wait at least 'til January.

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  1. Somewhere between vaporware and.. by tcd004 · · Score: 4
    We need a new name for tech that's slapped together for a trade show, looks great on stage, but won't hit consumers hands for at least a year. How about nearhereware?

    nearware?

    tcd004

    Here's my Microsoft Parody, where's yours?

  2. wait, it gets better... by imac.usr · · Score: 4

    Back in the day ('95-96 or so) there were dual-604e Macs and quad-604e Mac clones that ran Photoshop like nobody's bidness. The G4 was designed from the beginning (unlike the G3) to accept up to 4-way cache-coherency, IIRC. Four G4 cores on a single die were considered quite feasible when Motorola rolled out the design. Mmmmmm...four-way processing....[hrragglhh]

    Hmmm. Could Apple be the first company to introduce a MP laptop?
    (Or has somebody already done so?)

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    I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
  3. Re:Dual G4 Board from PowerLogix by Darchmare · · Score: 4

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    Note that the reason Be can't make the BeOS run on PowerMac G3 and G4 machines is not because of their processors but because Apple won't give Be the specs for the proprietary chips on the motherboards of the new machines.
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    Ah yes. Apple has been terrible about releasing the information used in order to port alternative operating systems on their hardware, eh?

    Darwin
    MkLinux
    LinuxPPC
    NetBSD
    Yellow Dog Linux
    Debian
    SuSE

    Think for yourself. No matter what Be's propaganda says, Apple has nothing to lose from Be porting their OS to their hardware, since they still gain sales either way. Perhaps they don't want to subsidize Be's development, but that's besides the point. Be's argument was questionable from the beginning, and is twice as questionable now that Apple has released Darwin.

    Don't get me wrong - I love BeOS, but the company behind it doesn't seem to have any trouble hiding reality from their userbase. They got seduced by Wintel and they know it.

    - Jeff A. Campbell
    - VelociNews (http://www.velocinews.com)

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    - Jeff