90nm 3GHz PPC 970FX by Summer

dmdimon sent in linkage to a Forbes story on the upcoming PPC chips and notes "IBM is said to be ready to deliver a new version of its PowerPC processor to Apple by the end of this year in from sizes of 130 nanometers to 90 nanometers... Apple CEO Steve Jobs has already gone on the record saying that the G5 computer will contain PowerPC chips that run at 3 GHz by the summer of 2004. A mid-step between the current systems, which top out with two chips running at 2 GHz, and systems with chips as fast as 2.6 GHz would be a logical move come January..."

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Re:Sweet

[tomstdenis]

Whoever modded me insightful is a fucking moron. No shit posted on /. is ever insightful, specially from me. My god you guys live sick fucking lives!!!!!!!!

Now mod the parent down already! He's an idiot!

Tom

Re:You know a women didn't come up with this idea.

[JohnwheeleR]

i been modding you bad. i even went back in time and modded down one of your past comments. I think you are a moron

Re:Great for consumers

[shaitand]

I think you need to reread the thread. I wasn't claiming you were locked into any number of OS with any architeture. I merely stated that Solaris on x86 doesn't really count as an x86 OS, since it doesn't run any actual x86 hardware ;)

As for the OS lockdown, it comes down to this. The mac is closed up tighter than a drum and Apple does absolutely EVERYTHING they can to keep competitors out of their niche. They are far more aggressive about doing so than Microsoft.

If the Mac rather than x86 pc became the defacto system, apple wouldn't have to arrange agreements with anyone to suddenly kill off all other operating systems. They could nuke or alter the bios at will on all apple systems entirely by their own choice.

There would be no "if we can get a large enough marketshare in time". 90% of all apple computers out there could be running linux and it wouldn't stop or derail the change to eliminate linux from their systems.

Re:Great for consumers

[tommck]

I appreciate the info. Though I still wish that the hardware on macs didn't cost so much. I was impressed and psyched when Mac OS X came out, but I am not buying a Mac just to run it. I like the OS though(need a 2-button mouse though, is that available now?)

T

Re:Great for consumers

[tommck]

Hey butt nugget... I asked the friggin question, because I didn't know and I knew some asswipe like yourself would be glad to offer up the answer along with much flame and ignorance.

Apple:
$1,499

iBook 1GHz/14.1XGA/256SD/60GB/Combo/E/56K
1 GHz PPC
14.1" XGA
256MB DDR266 (128MB built-in & 128MB SO-DIMM)
60GB Ultra ATA drive
Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)

Dell:
$1,361
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4, 2.66GHz,
15.0 XGA
60GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
512MB 266MHz 2 DIMM
24X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive

Oh yeah... MUCH cheaper!