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PowerPC 750GX Begins Sampling Next Month

Posted by pudge on from the what-no-mobile-g5 dept.

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.

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  1. Re:goodbye to G3 by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  2. Re:goodbye to G3 by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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