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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."
fp for lunix fagz!!!! MACS ARE ghey!1...
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Who cares what's inside the box as long as it comes in semi-transparent pastel shades?
Hmmm.
So this "completely new" motherboard design is, like usual, about 6 months behind motherboards for AMD and Intel chips. Sweet.
(Waiting for the Mac zealots) 3... 2... 1...
How do know this difference was not due to OSX being faster then linux ?
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Steve Jobs, PLEASE let me spend more money in your latest snake oil sale! I just HAVE to spend twice as much to get half as much... because I'm an Apple lemming and it's what I do best!
As others have posted, this fantastic "new" machine is only about 6 months behind AMD and Intel and people who actually know about computers (those who can program and don't think iTunes and iMasturbate actually count) will continue to build their own boxes with the latest components and use Linux or BSD.
Come to think of it, the Mac feebs are using BSD, only their patron saint, Steve "I ripped Woz off" Jobs has taken an open source project and turned it into a closed-source stolen OS.
Yeah, keep on thinking just how hip you are and how smart you are, you fucking losers.
What you REALLY mean is: "I just dropped $3300 for an iMac that folds like a toilet seat."
Geez, you're smart.
What "quality" is that? I use computers to crunch bits, not as a fashion statement. The computer that crunches bits the fastest is the one that has the highest "quality".
Hint: the color of the box has nothing WHATSOEVER to do with the "quality" of the computer.
Jesus, I like OS X, but the sheer snobbishness of Mac users is enough to put me off sometimes.
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.
What problems? The Itanium2 is the fastest processor you can get! It kicks the Power5's ass, which is the 970's big brother.
Also, the fact that the 970 is 64-bit is a non-issue. For a consumer-level machine it will provide no benefit whatsoever.
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.
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).
Only in slashdot are posts of solidarity modded at -1 Redundant, while posts of antagonism are modded as -1 Flamebait.
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!!!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
YHBT, HAND.