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PowerPC 750GX Begins Sampling Next Month
Trollaxor writes "The June issue of IBM's PowerPC Processor News features an article on the latest G3, Big Blue's PowerPC 750GX. The chip, which begins sampling next month, runs at 1.1 GHz and has 1 megabyte of on-chip L2 cache. Could this be Apple's next speedbump to the iBook?" Or, maybe, they will kill the iBook altogether in favor of the 12" AlBook.
G5 Powerbooks may be a long time in the making. The G5 produces a lot more heat than the 970 Powerbook fanatics expected. Apple's chief of hardware design said that the G5s wouldn't be seeing the inside of a portable for a long time. I can't imagine why he'd lie.
Plus, the G3 uses much less power and heat than the G4, it's a lot cheaper, and with Quartz Extreme, Apple's UI isn't dependent on altivec for reasonable performance. I've got the last model of iBook with a non Quartz Extreme compatible graphics card, and I don't lust after a G4. I lust after QuartzGL.
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I have heard from several insiders that Panther actually runs better than Jaguar did on low-end machines.
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With Apple's announcing that beige G3s won't be supported for Panther, that's probably an indication of Apple moving away from the six year old processor.
As for Apple not using the same processor in pro v. consumer notebooks, the same was true in Power Macs and iMacs until the iMac G4(and then eMac). There will probably be a short time in which Apple will put the G4 into an iBook replacement to co-exist with the Powerbooks.
My guess is they will put a new name on the 12" AlBook and maybe even a "new" 14" version. The 17" with a better processor(MPC7457 G4)/motherboard(DDR333 RAM) combo will be the main selling feature until they can get heat to a manageable level on the G5.
I don't really know what happened there, but to finish the comment (and have it make sense):-
G4 @ 1Ghz = >20W
G3 "Gobi" @ 1Ghz = 8W
which would YOU prefer in a laptop?
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"Apple's chief of hardware design said that the G5s wouldn't be seeing the inside of a portable for a long time. I can't imagine why he'd lie."
... and that's as good a reason as any to mislead buyers about future product intro dates.
First off the comments you refer to were made by Greg Joswiak, head of hardware MARKETING, not design, and he said not "anytime soon", which is pretty darn vague and not the same thing as not for a long time. Furthermore, a marketing chief has to be worried about inventory on the shelf, not the stuff on the drawing board
One of the awesome things about buying a system from Apple is that if you can ignore all the new and innovative things they are doing, their machines will last virtually forever. I still use some old 68k machines sometimes, and they have yet to fail. I am constantly surprised at the quality of construction that Apple employs.
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In fact, current iBooks have Quartz Extreme. Minimum requirement is a Radeon, which my wife's six month old iBook 800 MHz has.
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I'm talking about this Bad Boy:
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Should be shipping in quantity Q3 of this year.
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As I remember Apple actually used "G3" chips for early G4. Anyone back me up there, or shoot me down?
You're thinking of the motherboard, not the processor. The new motherboard Apple developed for the G4 wasn't ready by the time His Royal Steveness wanted to ship the G4 system, so they hacked up a G3 motherboard to make it work with the G4 processor, code-named it "Yikes!" because of the time crunch, and shipped it. Apple officially refers to this system as the "PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics)" since it has no AGP slot. The next revision was the "PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics)", with the motherboard originally planned for the G4, code-named "Sawtooth".
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