Confirmed! Leaked G4 specifications!

nostradamusnostradamus
Posted:
in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
This was leaked from Apple's learn and Earn website.



[code]Processor\t

800-MHz Power PC G4\t

933-MHz Power PC G4\t

Dual 1-GHz Power PC G4

On-chip cache\t

256K L2 at 800 MHz\t

256K L2 at 933 MHz\t

256K L2 at 1 GHz per processor

L3 cache (DDR SDRAM)\t

\t

2MB with 3.7-GBps throughput\t

2MB per processor with 4-GBps throughput

Main memory (PC 133 SDRAM)\t

256MB\t

256MB\t

512MB

Hard disk drive\t

40GB (7200 rpm)\t

60GB (7200 rpm)\t

80GB (7200 rpm)

Graphics support\t

ATI Radeon 7500 with 32MB of DDR RAM\t

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX with 64MB of DDR RAM\t

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX with 64MB of DDR RAM

Optical drive\t

CD-RW\t

SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)\t

SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)

FireWire\t

Two ports\t

Two ports\t

Two ports

USB\t

Four ports\t

Four ports\t

Four ports

PCI\t

Four slots\t

Four slots\t

Four slots

Ethernet\t

10/100/1000BASE-T\t

10/100/1000BASE-T\t

10/100/1000BASE-T

Wireless networking\t

AirPort ready\t

AirPort ready\t

AirPort ready

Modem\t

56K\t

56K\t

56K

Accessories\t

Apple Pro Keyboard, Apple Pro Mouse, and modem cable

Applications and tools\t

Mac OS X v10.1 and Mac OS 9.2; QuickTime,

iMovie 2, iDVD 2 (requires SuperDrive),

iPhoto, iTunes 2, DVD Player, Mac OS X Mail,

Microsoft Internet Explorer, EarthLink, Acrobat

Reader 5.0, Art Director?s Toolkit, FAXstf 10.0

Preview, FileMaker Pro 5.5 Trial, Graphic

Converter, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, PCalc,

PixelNhance, and Snapz Pro X; Apple

Hardware Test CD

Training\t

Complete setup, learning, and reference documentation

Service and support\t

90 days of telephone support and a one-year limited warranty

Internet service\t

30 days of free Internet service through EarthLink</pre><hr></blockquote>



[ 01-22-2002: Message edited by: Nostradamus ]</p>
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  • Reply 1 of 118
    nostradamusnostradamus Posts: 397member
    Get the web archive while its still there.



    <a href="http://www.geocities.com/vision_ar/new_specs.html"; target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/vision_ar/new_specs.html</a>;
  • Reply 1 of 118
    cakecake Posts: 1,010member
    Hmmmmm! Looks interesting if true, but when!!!!
  • Reply 3 of 118
    cakecake Posts: 1,010member
    Wait a minute, PC 133? That sux00rs. Must have DDR!
  • Reply 4 of 118
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    Wow, so MacUser UK was right on, wow.



    Funny that it comes with IE, but not Netscape, and 2 apps from OmniGroup but not OmniWeb.



    Damn M$!!
  • Reply 4 of 118
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    Good catch!



    Well, it looks like something to tide the pros over for a few months. The GeForce4 is interesting.
  • Reply 6 of 118
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    PowermacG4 - You surprise me. That is such a hoax!
  • Reply 7 of 118
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    Oh yea, why L3 cache with DDR when it still uses regular 133 sdram?



    Will that make any difference, the DDR L3 cache?
  • Reply 8 of 118
    nostradamusnostradamus Posts: 397member
    Don't blame the messanger. I just sited this on another website and it seems reliable enough to be "confiirmed", specially if you look at the source in the webarchive.
  • Reply 9 of 118
    nostradamusnostradamus Posts: 397member
    [quote]Originally posted by Amorph:

    <strong>Good catch!



    Well, it looks like something to tide the pros over for a few months. The GeForce4 is interesting.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Ahh, but its a GeForce4MX not a full-fledged GeForce4.
  • Reply 10 of 118
    nostradamusnostradamus Posts: 397member
    The software bundle is also kind of interesting.
  • Reply 11 of 118
    thttht Posts: 5,530member
    <strong>Originally posted by KidRed:

    Oh yea, why L3 cache with DDR when it still uses regular 133 sdram?



    Will that make any difference, the DDR L3 cache?</strong>



    If this rumor is true, it's most likely a typo since Apple has been using DDR SRAM for a while.



    They still should make it dual-G4 in all the machines. Sigh. In fact, they should make the iMac a dual-G4! Multitasking is very very smooth with multiple processors.
  • Reply 12 of 118
    tarbashtarbash Posts: 278member
    I'm a Campus Rep and I live on the Learn and Earn site, and that looks real, but I have never seen it and I can't find it now.



    Might be the real thing though...
  • Reply 13 of 118
    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,563member
    The L3 cache spec is fishy. The current L3 spec reads:



    "2MB backside L3 cache running at one-fourth the processor speed (867MHz and dual 800MHz systems)"



    This is typical. The cache is rated at a fraction of the processor speed. I'm not up on this but I thought that cache memory was generally SRAM, not SDRAM so DDR wouldn't apply. On the other hand, this may be a misunderstanding by the author of this page as this seems to be a reseller and is definitely not Apple's own page.
  • Reply 14 of 118
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    Fishy? Is this not from Apple's web site? HAHA, yea, Apple is lying to us now.
  • Reply 15 of 118
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    Check the source code, it's real. This is the top image in the code page and from apple's server-



  • Reply 16 of 118
    the cynicthe cynic Posts: 6member
    Ah, how predictable. This is exactly what realists should have been expecting. Now of course we'll hear how it's just a stopgap until the G5 is ready at twice the speed.



    Listen carefully: The G5 doesn't exist yet, we won't see it this year. Performance does not double, at least not with Apple in this reality. The Apollo comes next, probably with the new motherboard, maybe at MWNY if things go well. It will be an incremental increase in speed - think 20-40% for the processor with a bus that should be able to keep up.



    There is no super magic processor waiting in the wings. The wizard is actually an old man hiding behind the curtain trying to do the best with what's available from a floundering Motorola.



    TC



    [ 01-23-2002: Message edited by: The Cynic ]</p>
  • Reply 17 of 118
    qaziiqazii Posts: 305member
    [quote]Originally posted by Tarbash:

    <strong>I'm a Campus Rep and I live on the Learn and Earn site, and that looks real, but I have never seen it and I can't find it now.



    Might be the real thing though... </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Can you find a page like it (i.e. nearly the same but with the specs for the current line)? Perhaps someone took the real page, edited the HTML, and put it on geocities.
  • Reply 18 of 118
    gkgk Posts: 32member
    sounds real. MWNY -&gt; Apollo or G5, that's the big question.



    <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 19 of 118
    spectrespectre Posts: 3member
    Radeon 7500? ATI doesn't even make a Radeon 7500 for the mac. (as far as i know they make the 7000 and 8500 for the mac). Also, the PC radeon 7500 has 64mb of vram, where this site states that the 7500 only has 32mb of vram.



    That seems kinda messed up... Maybe its just a typo? But still.. If it was the radeon 7000, I dont think thats really any better then the Geforce2mx... so youd think apple would just stick a gf2mx in there.



    If these are true, I'll be kinda disapointed. While the 2 top models are nice, the bottom model aint so groovy CD-RW? 40GB? Lets see.. the top end iMac comes with a Superdrive, a 60gb HD, the same processor, and maybe a slightly faster graphics card.... hmmmm. Oh yeah, the g4 is 100 bucks cheaper, but it also doesn't include a monitor.



    No matter what.. I'll be buying whenever they're updated.
  • Reply 20 of 118
    msleemslee Posts: 143member
    I wonder if we'll see new LCDs coupled with the introduction of these under-Power[ed]Macs.
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