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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. Shenanigans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I call shenanigans on both AppleInsider and Slashdot for being lame. I'll believe it when I see it.

  2. Re:damn by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you placed it on your lap, it would at least protect your family jewels from most forms of ionising radiation.

    That's gotta be worth SOMETHING...

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  3. Re:No Gigabit Ethernet ? by The+AtomicPunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. Despite having moved to it in all their current models, they've decided it's overkill for the consumer and are moving back to 4mbit token ring.

  4. Re:Appleturn by Jobs's alter ego? by selderrr · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you mean by that? Is this site done by Steve or what? Or is it a joke? I don't understand it...

    No, i was joking. It's not a site done by Jobs himself, but it is a well known fact that many apple employees (supposedl including his steveness) are fan of appleturns. Especially the Polls :-)

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  5. Re:damn by cosmo7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    hey, 1999 called and it wants its troll back.

  6. Re:No Gigabit Ethernet ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, the rumor sites haven't said anything about a keyboard, either! Does anybody know whether Apple plans to ship a keyboard with the G5?

  7. Re:Will they still be behind Intel ? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Intel has 3GHZ+ chips out these days. Thats double what the new Mac would have.

    It gets worse. The new 3GHz P4 has a thermal output of almost 80W, around four times the thermal output of a . How will Apple cope with a computer which produces so little heat? The average consumer won't care that you can leave a Mac on longer in order to heat up their room, or that they will actually be able to hear their music over the fan noise. All they will see is that the Mac costs more and they have to buy a heater to keeps their house warm as well.

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  8. Re:G5 a good name? by Hawthorne01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will work right up until the G8 is released, which will not sell due to massive "spontaneous" protests that form around each machine with it inside.

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  9. simple by chocolatetrumpet · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's very easy.

    The processors will continue from G5 to G9, and eventually to G9.2. The next processor after that will be GX 10.0.

    Got it?

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  10. Re:Does the clock speed matter that much? by lewp · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only people who need to do those things are terrorists and thieves. Would you like to confess now, or down at the station?

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