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Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC?
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."
Please please please editors, post more rumors and speculations about the G5. I /almost/ give a shit.
So, why they don't switch to Microsofts Windows ?
Instead of investing millions of bucks into their own properietary system, they could get it from MS for cheap. And also the users would benefit from this action. While the usability of Windows is a little lower than OS X we have on the other hand that there are much more applications on all commerical sector aviable for Windows. The user could choose from a bigger apllication pool instead of buying expensive OS X apps.
And it would be a great step for the standardization of modern computing with fewer proprietrary systems on this sector.
There is the technical issue with Mac being no Intel Pentium systems, but MS managed to port Windows to the Itanium and many embedded platforms, so they could do the step to the PowerPC, too.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
...was shamed with a terrible bug that Intel initially refused to acknowledge. But you didn't see them changing the name, did you?
Then again, PC users are mindless sheep who base purchases on nothing but who has the lowest price.
Also, had they changed the name, Intel would've been forced to use "Sexium" because their marketing boneheads didn't think through on the succession of names-- and then all the bible-thumping inbreds in the South would have complained and boycotted, and Wal-Mart would stop carrying PCs, etc...
macbidouille(french, rather new, so reliability unconfirmed)
Ahhh... a "Freedom Mac" site. No wonder their reliability hasn't been confirmed...
If you like to use Macs, you had better hope this thing is a commercial success. AAPL currently sits at a price it first set in 1987! That is to say, no sustained improvement in the stock in over 15 years. The company is losing the war, plain and simple. Arguing with me about productivity or ease-of-use or great new specs (which, I can't help but notice seem to suddenly matter again with the prospect of hot new machines--for about a year, it's been all about the OS or cool-running or whatever other bullshit we could come up with)--anyway, all this shit won't matter if these things are way expensive.
I bought an 800 Mhz G3 iBook w/ 512 MB RAM OS X.2. The clip that holds it shut broke within the first two weeks. iTunes locks up half the time and is seriously lacking in the features department. The thing is so slow that it's almost painful to use. I have to go do something else while the damn thing boots up. Until I see significant speed improvements over my Wintel box, I'm not going to shell out the extra cash for another Mac.
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.
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.
Steve "I ripped Woz off" Jobs has taken an open source project and turned it into a closed-source stolen OS.
What do you expect from a Jew?