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Originally posted by rmendis
I have to say that i'm excited too...but at the prospect of seeing my boyfriend after 6 months. (Not had sex in a long time). So at the moment i really couldn't care less how many MHz the G5 is...
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Originally posted by AirSluf
Occams razor, and no IBM did not deliver, but did announce working prototype silicon that was faster than shipping G4's.
It was not a prototype.
It was a stipped down PPC core just to...
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Originally posted by BRussell
Notice how on the roadmap this new 7447/57 .13 chip has a max speed of 1.3 Ghz.
Apple already has a 1.42Ghz 7455. And on the roadmap the 7455 has a max of 1Ghz.
And at the top of the...
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Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg
Wasn't it a German Mac magazine that published benchmarks a while back that showed Apple's high end Powermac getting entirely destroyed by a Wintel? Maybe that really stuck in Jobs' craw and...
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Originally posted by Programmer
You might not buy it, but lots of the Pro market would. High-end PowerMac / Xstation, it doesn't really matter -- the same principle applies. Apple has had an "Ultimate"...
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Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon
If IBM can get a 2.5 gig 970 by the end 03 beg' 04...? That will be a 5 gig Pentium 4. That's twice per clock. That's going to run Intel really hard. There's no WAY they're going to have...
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Originally posted by ArkAngel
Maybe Programmer and Amorph or someone can help me understand or establish a better context for what appears to be a discussion on Apple's potential implementation of the 970.
Hey its me,...
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Originally posted by hmurchison
I hope it makes it easy to optimize code for Altivec and take advantage of the new features of the 970. I'm assuming we'll need additional tweaks to take advantage of the superior FPU as well....
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Originally posted by Programmer
It is very likely that Apple will say that a 5x improvement (in processor bandwidth) is "enough for now" and just ship exactly that.
This is exactly what I think they will do. Just...
