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Apple Moves to All Dual-Processor Power Mac Lineup

Posted by Zonk on from the twice-the-fun dept.

Jason Siegel writes "Apple will no longer be selling single-processor Power Mac computers, according to GeekInformed. The company has officially dropped 1.8 GHz G5s from their lineup to pave the way for exclusively dual-processor Power Macs. The systems will range from dual 2 to 2.7 GHz G5s. This is the first significant announcement since the Worldwide Developers Conference declaration that Apple will transition away from PowerPC to Intel chips."

3 of 443 comments (clear)

  1. and I care why? by Bootle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I even own a mac and this article is complete non-news. I wonder how long it will be before it's duped???

  2. Re:Why upgrade now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They won't be fast though. Long time mac users will once again have to suffer from the pain inflicted on them by the knee jerk reactions of Steve Jobs.
    Sure it might be fast to run your x86 binaries under ppc, but not the other way around.
    Apple Engineers might be engineers, but they certainly are not miracle works (Reference the second button on a mouse).

  3. Re:Why upgrade now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    lol...apparently you didn't get the memo on the G5 vs. Pentium4. Here, lemme summarise for you: the G5 is a piece of shit. Apple finally accepted the fact that it's a pos and that's why they decided to switch to Intel chips (although AMD chips would work just as well).

    The only people who don't understand how much ass the G5 is are the Apple fanboys who can't possibly b elieve there's something better in a wintel machine than their metrosexual macintoshes.