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G4 Bug Keeps Them at 500MHz

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ain't-that-a-bummer dept.

Hal-9001 writes "I saw this link over at Ars Technica; apparently, the G4 has a bug that keeps it from running at 500 MHz or above. The story is over at MacWeek. "

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  1. Freeze by Yebyen · · Score: 5
    Even if data corruption should occur, a source said, the result would be nothing more than a system freeze, easily fixed with a restart.

    Statements like this worry me. Restarts are NOT ok, and i'm sickened that people think they are. Especially when they're frequent like it sounds like this bug would make them. The world is not windows, if it were then everyone including me would have no problem with an occasional restart. But more importantly, G4's are usually going to be used as servers. Reboots are NEVER acceptable in a server, it can mean 20 minutes of downtime on a website which can mean lost revenue. It can mean lost e-mails within a company which is a VERY bad thing. Get the picture? I'm glad they're delaying the release, of course, as this is not a good bug. OK my rant is done :-) thanks for reading.

    Patrick Barrett
    Yebyen@adelphia.net

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  2. This Is Not Apple's Fault by HerrNewton · · Score: 4

    Typical Slashdot reaction -- anything remotely bad happens to Apple and it's immediately Apple's fault. Steve Jobs could have a cold and, by gawd, Apple is going to go down the crapper.

    Let's look at this at face value, okay?

    1. This is not Apple's fault. Does Apple fab or design the chips? No. That's Motorola, hence this is Motorola's fault

    2. Motorola isn't the only company that occassionally has problems with their chips--How late is Merced? AMD doesn't have a clean record either...

    3. The 500MHz + systems aren't even shipping yet. This is complaining about a problem with product foo when product foo hasn't even been tested as it will ship let alone shipped to the public.

    I'm not saying that this isn't a bad thing -- just saying that everyone is making it out to be far worse than it actually is.


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  3. ... by Signal+11 · · Score: 4
    This doesn't strike me as odd - it hasn't shipped yet (right?), and they're planning on fixing it (unlike a certain well-known software company). I'm not that suprised either - CPU design has largely been focused around symetric processing, timing signals, and other such things to keep the processor 'in sync'. From what I've read, new processor designs (like the G4) are trying to become asymetrical, parallel, and generally doing alot of things that haven't been done before - things that up until now had alot of timing issues.

    What suprises me is that they haven't had more problems!

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