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."

Comments

Re:Does the clock speed matter that much?

[Timesprout]

How do know this difference was not due to OSX being faster then linux ?

Re:"New!"

[Alex_Ionescu]

Which devices need/support/write/read FW 800? (As in, fully utilise the bandwidth). I'd be interested... Not to mention you need FIBER OPTIC wire to achieve that speed over 3 feet, which is extremely expensive. Already firewire is 30$ for a small wire.

As for HyperTransport, PCs will be using PCI-Express which can reach 32GBit and is the official standard that PCI-SIG approved. Apple once again has chosen to stick with the obsolete or "minority" technology.

Re:Does the clock speed matter that much?

[nomadic]

Ahh, who cares. Speed mostly counts for games, and it's not like they release mac games that much. And when they do the graphics are slow, because they don't release topflight graphics cards for macs either.

I didn't like it

[diersing]

I am a Windows admin (please save your snide comments) and I was at the mall yesterday. I haven't touched a Mac in some time and went into the apple store to see what all the hype was about. I have to say after playing with a variety of systems I wasn't into it at all. I understand if I had one and became intimate with one I'd discover what all those people are talking about that have switched. But maybe its becuase I'm use to having more then one mouse button, but the interface wasn't nearly as intutive as advertised. and the desktop seemed all about bells & whistles (which are nice, but at home I want to game, host a web site, surf porn, and maybe do some multimedia stuff). Don't get me wrong, I love the hardware and damn the new iMac is sexy, if I could get one that ran Windows or RedHat (or Mandrake) I'd think about it, but the freaking Mac software is priced out of my range. I am looking for a new home PC and the Dell XPS is my choice right now, but I'd love to hear about someone in a similar situation as I that went with a Mac and what their experience was.

Re:Will they still be behind Intel ?

[C0LDFusion]

That's a Steve Jobs thing. In forcing every Mac fanatic off the Legacy Units (Anything before the iMac), he's basically shafted a good amount of his consumer market: the Mac Cult.

Of course, he really never did respect the Mac Cult, and was known to insult it repeatedly back when he was pimping the NeXTStation.

Basically, he made my systems un-upgradeable, incapable of running new software. It used to be that any computer that had an '040 could run any OS from 7.0-8.2, which is several years of revision. Then they bumped the requirement to a PPC for 8.5 and 9, which didn't bother me, because I had bought a 9600 around that time. Then, they cranked out the iMac and the G3's and G4's and said "You know what? Fuck you, too." I mean, you get a similar thing in Windows, but XP CAN run on a computer made several years ago, and runs on a ton of computers. OS X only runs on a very narrow slate of computers (even some G3's and iMacs are literally prevented by the Installer from installing. The Beige-box G3's could probably handle OS X better than the translucent G3's, because some had massive capacity for memory. The only difference is USB, which for many people, is no biggie.

I'm gonna hold off for a while before I buy a new Mac.

Another thing that pisses me off is that when I bought my macs, I had a promise from Apple that said that I could call 1-800-SOS-APPL and get free phone tech support. Now, unless you write a strongly worded letter bordering on threatening a lawsuit, they don't wanna hear shit about a "Legacy" mac ("Oh, you have one of THOSE machines...Hmph, please take your riff-raff elsewhere. We don't like your kind here." is the sense I get from them).

Re:It would be a shame

[Anita Coney]

I agree about the pointless "meggahurtz race." When I'm rendering video I want it to take as long as possible. When I'm gaming, I want it to run as choppy as possible, not smoothly. That's why I run XP Pro on a 386, speed sucks!!!