Apple Marketing Hypes New PowerMacs

Wacky_Wookie was only one of many who wrote in with a mention of Apple's "leak" of specifications for a new line of PowerMacs to be dubbed "G5", apparently running the new PowerPC 970 CPUs. No offense, but anyone who thinks it was a mistake or leak doesn't understand marketing. :) Update by J : In case those linked sites get taken down too, try MacNN.

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New Mac

[stanmann]

The reasons to have your next PC upgrade be a Mac keep increasing, and the only thing that might make the PC platform attractive are the rumors that HP will be releasing an Opteron soon. Personally I can't wait till I can have a 64-bit desktop machine with built in Gigabit.

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[thatguywhoiam]

RealMike, your anti-Mac bias becomes more evident with each post. You can't seem to help taking a swipe. It's tiresome.

Oh sure. So the legendary Apple marketing machine will whip up a hyped frenzy in its followers. But other than being in the running again, nothing will have really changed.

Well, nothing at all, except for the fact that Macs might be faster than practically anything out there now, as opposed to before, when they were definitely not.

Home users care nothing for 'vendor independence', etc. They usually just buy the cheapest machine that has the specs they want.

The *really* big news is that a huge chunk of the geek-set here on Slashdot will soon have a really, really compelling alternative to any high-end PC workstation. If the IBM chip scales up fast, Apple is looking very well positioned to displace a few SGI and Sun machines in certain situations.

Think about it - almost everyone on here drools over Mac OS X - rightly so - but they had problems with the slower bus/clock speeds on the G4s (whether justified or not; I still suspect a lot of these goons screaming for speed just want it for Doom 3). With 64bit dual-Ghz high-speed-bus Macs, you will see an even larger migration of those Unix geeks to the Mac. Something I look forward to.

I'm not an Apple apologist by any means - I use the big 3 platforms pretty regularly - but let's give credit where its due, huh?

Don't believe it.

[laertes]

The following gives it away:

- Fast Serial ATA hard drives
- Three PCI or PCI-X expansion slots

While I'd love to believe that Apple is soon coming out with 970 based machines, these two items in particular are the Joe Slashdot wet-dream wishlist items. Apple will go with the same drives you can get in an Xserve today, and I'd be pretty surprised if the jumped on board PCI-X. The fact is, someone not related to Apple just sat at their keyboard, and tried to make a spec which seemed believable yet got all the Joe Slashdot Apple fanboys hot-and-bothered.

Furthermore, as I'm sure has been mentioned before, this is absolutely not how Apple's marketing engine works. They keep the upcoming hardware stricktly under wraps to discourage the wait-until-the-next-machine-comes-out mentality. They are a profitable company, and they'd like to keep it that way. The way for them to do this is to entice you to buy a machine today.