Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 8, 2003 @02:11AM 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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I love hypertransport by cybrthng · 2003-06-08 02:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

Even if the opteron doesn't smoke other cpu's the motherboard technology will1

horray for motherboard advancements that are LONG overdue!!!
Yes, you want clock speed by Gavitron_zero · 2003-06-08 03:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

Remember, the common consumer doesn't know anything about how a CPU works. They see a bigger number on the advertisement for the computer, think it's faster and then purchase it. Why do you think Intel went with an architecture that scales to high clock speeds so easily? And why AMD is using performance ratings? It's because there are far more common consumers than "experts" purchasing computers. Remember, processor companies are in the biz to make money, they're not out to impress the /. crowd.