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90nm 3GHz PPC 970FX by Summer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the flexing-your-muscles dept.

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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  1. 7th prost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that's right bitch # Important Stuff: Please try to keep posts on topic. # Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads. # Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page)

  2. Xserve G5 leaked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I found a site for an OSX based webhosting company that shows what appears to be the long-awaited Xserve G5. What do you all think - the real thing, or just a hoax? What will Steve do?

  3. Re:You know a women didn't come up with this idea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, it shouldn't.

  4. Re:Great for consumers by tommck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Except for that whole... pretty much locked into a single OS on ppc (unless using Linux, of course... oh wait... I'm on slashdot...)

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    ---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
  5. made me laugh tears man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ah that was so great, I can't find words for. ignorant and proud of. politically uncorrect as heck, just like i love it.

  6. robbIE: 90k members/gnu dating service buy summer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a real colonel? finally? (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23, @08:25AM (#7793749)
    we were beginning to tire of all these corepirate nazi shills telling us that 'stuff that matters' is about .asphyxiating/deleting all of you hobbyist dogooders buy 'law', so that we could all be payper liesense stock markup FraUD billyonerrors again?

    yOUR question, although not directly related to colonel promotion/maintainence, is of interest to at least won of us, so here goes:

    have you joined robbIE's gnu dating service yet? &, if so, have you any information as to the existence/legitimacy of the won-eyed girl in the jump-you ads?

    one more question:

    we're not promoting our colonels until all the shysterious phonIE litigatory h00plah dIEs DOWn. do you have any notion when that might be? thanks?