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Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the from-the-rumor-mill dept.

a.ameri writes "Apple Insider is reporting that Apple will announce computers based on IBM's 64 bit PPC 970 processor in the upcomming WWDC and will market them as G5. The new Power Mac G5s will sport a completely new motherboard design utilizing DDR 400 RAM as well as AGP 8x graphics, FireWire 800, and USB 2.0, sources said. "In the box" connectivity among the news systems is based on Hypertransport which provides 64-bit addressing and will replace Apple's multilevel bus architecture found in current systems. Initial offerings of the Power Mac G5 are said to boast 1.4 to 1.8GHz, single core PPC 970 processors, with the possibility of a dual 1.8GHz chips shortly thereafter."

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  1. Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Please please please editors, post more rumors and speculations about the G5. I /almost/ give a shit.

  2. Re:No news really by neurostar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    macbidouille(french, rather new, so reliability unconfirmed)

    Ahhh... a "Freedom Mac" site. No wonder their reliability hasn't been confirmed...

    ;)

  3. Re:"New!" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So this "completely new" motherboard design is, like usual, about 6 months behind motherboards for AMD and Intel chips. Sweet.

    That's okay. PC-land is way more than six months behind Apple in practically every other respect.

    Find me a dual-processor computer with built-in FireWire 800 and 802.11g.

    Find me an all-in-one computer with an articulated 17" digital LCD.

    Find me a 17" laptop with built-in Gigabit ethernet.

    You Mac-haters love to hop up and down on things like clock speed and bus speed, things that frankly just don't matter very much. When you do a feature-for-feature comparison of a Mac (any variety) to the competition, it's easy to see why. Because by every other metric, you guys lose big time.

  4. Re:"New!" by jargoone · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Find me a dual-processor computer with built-in FireWire 800 and 802.11g.
    As mentioned several times above, FireWire 800 is essentially useless at this point. And 802.11g isn't even finalized, and might turn out to be much slower than planned. Oh yeah, by the way, where did you buy this computer? How do you like it?

    Find me an all-in-one computer with an articulated 17" digital LCD.
    All-in-one anything sucks. Pixels going dead? Buy a new computer! Want to upgrade the motherboard? Buy a new computer!

    Find me a 17" laptop with built-in Gigabit ethernet.
    Find me an individual that actually uses Gigabit ethernet at home. Also find me someone that wants to lug around a 17" laptop.


    You Mac lovers love to hop up and down on things that you have, but that you don't actually need.

  5. Re:Why doesn't Apple switches to Windows ? by Clockwurk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Eat this smartass - MS windows is about 9 times bigger than all other operating systems combined (in the desktop area).