G5 = PPC 970 ?
Please don't flame me as silly as this sounds. I just don't know...
Will the IBM chip 970 be renamed the G5? of course if Apple would use this chip.
I know Motorola was working on a new chip , but Is this not what Apple uses for marketing, the G3, G4, G5 code names?
[ 10-17-2002: Message edited by: MacMatt ]</p>
Will the IBM chip 970 be renamed the G5? of course if Apple would use this chip.
I know Motorola was working on a new chip , but Is this not what Apple uses for marketing, the G3, G4, G5 code names?
[ 10-17-2002: Message edited by: MacMatt ]</p>
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<strong>IBM and Motorola use part numbers for their chips officially. Apple has been using the G3 and G4 in literature about their products, so it is not tied to a particular chip. I expect Apple to call the IBM 970 a G5. As IBM advances, to 975 for example, it will still be called the G5 by Apple.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I doubt it. It would probably be far too confusing. I'd expect something clever or perhaps just GPUL.
<strong>IBM and Motorola use part numbers for their chips officially. Apple has been using the G3 and G4 in literature about their products, so it is not tied to a particular chip. I expect Apple to call the IBM 970 a G5. As IBM advances, to 975 for example, it will still be called the G5 by Apple.</strong><hr></blockquote>I don't think so. The G5 does exist in the form of 85xx processors from Motorola, and they're not the same as this 970. And there's still a possibility (maybe remote now) that a 75xx chip, a desktop G5, will be produced by Motorola. That would be a different chip than this 970, and it wouldn't make any sense to call them both G5s.
I think it will have a different name completely.
<strong>I bet a different name too, just because I think everyone is tired of the "G" naming scheme.</strong><hr></blockquote>You think wrong. Most of us are waiting for the G5. We would sell grandma's false teeth to buy one.
Anyway, who knows? I love surprises...
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Exactly my point. They want people to feel there has been a radical change, at LEAST as big as when they changed all the Macs to PowerMacs.
The g4's reputation, amoung PC folk, is that it is slow. That's the grim truth. If you think the G4 is slow, and you hear,
"Don't worry, it's a G5!"
It doesn't fill you with as much confidence as it could.
I think that the sad truth is that the G4's branding is not so hot, and a new, clean break to a new naming scheme might be better for shedding a bad reputation.
<strong>There's been debate that the 'G' Apple uses is for generation. In that sence, yea, they should name the 970 the G5.</strong><hr></blockquote>Last I checked, Motorola is the one that uses the Gx monker for the generations of chips. Apple just carries that over to its own products.
Maybe a nice game for fun: guess what Apple will call their new chip. H5 ? X1 ? HolyCow 5 ?
See page 5 of this document:
<a href="http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/PPCRMAP.pdf"; target="_blank">http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/PPCRMAP.pdf</a>;
and for those of you who don't like downloading PDFs:
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:JZPxwbau_wQC:e-www.motorola.com/collateral/PPCRMAP.pdf&hl=en&ie=UTF-8"; target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:JZPxwbau_wQC:e-www.motorola.com/collateral/PPCRMAP.pdf&hl=en&ie=UTF-8</a>;
The G5 is the 8500.
I honestly can't see Apple naming IBM's chip the same a Motorola's chip.
[ 10-17-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
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Again, G3, G4, and G5 are all Motorola names. . . I honestly can't see Apple naming IBM's chip the same a Motorola's chip.
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How do you explain the fact that there is an IBM 750 in some Mac products, and Apple calls it a G3?
There is nothing to stop Apple from using G3, G4 and G5, nomatter who makes the chip.
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When i say i5 aloud, it does sound kinda sexy, like a fast bmw car. And the i could represent IBM as the maker or something, who knows. I think I have way too much time to think about this, so i think i'll stop
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How do you explain the fact that there is an IBM 750 in some Mac products, and Apple calls it a G3?
There is nothing to stop Apple from using G3, G4 and G5, nomatter who makes the chip.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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He's right. IBM had nothing to do with the marketing name of the chip it sells to apple, they called the 750 or whatever, apple calls it the G3, even though motorola is the original G name carrier. Personally, i dont give a flying **** what they call it, just stick it in a powermac ane LEMME AT IT!!!
<strong>How do you explain the fact that there is an IBM 750 in some Mac products, and Apple calls it a G3?
There is nothing to stop Apple from using G3, G4 and G5, nomatter who makes the chip.</strong><hr></blockquote>Because the G3 is from the days of the AIM alliance. The G3 IBM and Motorola made were the same. Motorola's G5 and IBM's 970 are not the same.
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If 'G' stands for PPC generation, wouldn't the 970 be the G6, if motorola's newest processor is the G5?
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"If" Apple sticks with G nomenclature, these would be generations of processors for Apple, would they not? I don't think Apple will care that Motorola has their own version of a G5. The IBM 970 would be Apple's G5. Again, no one knows what Apple will call it.