G5 PowerBook "Challenge"

CarlBenda writes "MacWorld/UK has some interesting quotes from Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering at Apple concerning the possibility of a G5 powerbook. He's said that a G5 powerbook is "an issue of good, solid engineering" and that "a few years ago, nobody thought it would be possible to get a G4 processor in a PowerBook". Start saving your money."

Comments

Re:Dammit

[Xerithane]

If the past is any indication, the prices will stay about the same... Getting a G5 will be more a matter of how long you wait, than how much you save.

You know, it was funny and you just killed it.

Thanks a lot, asshole.

Re:If they're musing about it in public...

[melatonin]

I'd say not. The G4 is a dead end chip. If I have my facts straight (based on what I've read on the web, it's not like I work for Motorola/Apple), the G4 tops out at 1.2 GHz. Anything Apple ships higher than that is overclocked. Apple desperately needed the G5. The PowerBooks have just hit 1.2 GHz, just after the back to school rush. What odd timing indeed. I have friends in educational channel sales, and they are pissed. People who paid for PowerBooks back in July just got theirs Monday, right before the new revisions!

Apple doesn't have a scheme to go any faster with the G4. Motorola won't deliver. There was an article saying that Moto was going to go to 2 GHz in what, 2005? It was something too little, too late. That's clearly not useful to Apple. Apple needs to get G5s into PowerBooks as soon as possible, as that's going to be the next speed bump, unless if they can overclock the current G4s, keep them cool, and not eat power.