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Looking Ahead to Tiger, Powerbook G5s

Posted by michael on from the save-your-pennies dept.

sebFlyte writes "ZDNet is running a preview of Apple's newest version of OSX, Tiger, after Jobs said it was still on track for a q2 2005 release (long before Longhorn...)." And an anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that Powerbook G5s will ship in Q2 2005."

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  1. Re:64bit is new in OS X Tiger?! by HeghmoH · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, Mac OS X 10.3 and below are strictly 32-bit. They run on a 64-big G5 processor by virtue of the fact that the 64-bit PowerPC is 100% compatible with 32-bit code.

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  2. PB-G5 in 2Q 2005? Probably not. by Psykechan · · Score: 5, Informative

    After reading TFA, I don't think that we will have G5 laptops anytime within the first half of this year.

    It states that sources close to the Taiwan manufacturer claim they will ship. Aren't these the same sources that have been promising a Tablet Macintosh?

    It also states that there are the known heat problems, Apple saying it won't happen, and has a link to a more likely higher speed 90nm G4 (MPC7448) to be used in the newer models. This doesn't even factor in the fact that a G5 PowerBook would likely have been mentioned at the conference. It even suggests that the quoted source has made a typo!

    Is this hype that we should be reading on the front page? It's /. so of course!