Gigahertz barrier to finally be broken at MWSF?
Well, I was reading some old mac stories, and I came upon this LowEndMac article from shortly after the G4 was released.
<a href="http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/g4vp3.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/g4vp3.shtml</a>
[quote]News flash: so will Motorola. When Intel hits 700 MHz, expect the G4 to be running at 550 MHz, maybe even faster.
On top of that, to match the capabilities of the Velocity Engine equipped G4/500, Intel would have to make 1600 MHz Pentium III chips. And that isn't likely until mid-2001.
Of course, by then the G4 will be running at speeds in excess of 1000 MHz, too.<hr></blockquote>
D'oh!
<a href="http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/g4vp3.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/g4vp3.shtml</a>
[quote]News flash: so will Motorola. When Intel hits 700 MHz, expect the G4 to be running at 550 MHz, maybe even faster.
On top of that, to match the capabilities of the Velocity Engine equipped G4/500, Intel would have to make 1600 MHz Pentium III chips. And that isn't likely until mid-2001.
Of course, by then the G4 will be running at speeds in excess of 1000 MHz, too.<hr></blockquote>
D'oh!
Comments
If Motorola or whoever had been able to hold up their end and things progressed the usual way with 100-200MHz speed bumps twice a year, we would've broken the 1GHz barrier back in the summer or spring.
The talk about the upcoming MWSF would be "are we gonna reach 2GHz?"
if apple doesn't break 1 ghz by now, I will board myself up translating MacOs to 86x and buy a pc
all of a sudden I shudder thinking that apple would release a quad 800 or some crap like that
Ghz on the PowerMac for sure. Ghz on the iMac? Let's hope.
BUT didn't IBM already make ghz g3s? they just couldn't release them because of the g4?
<strong>Correct me if I'm wrong(robot)
BUT didn't IBM already make ghz g3s? they just couldn't release them because of the g4?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm not sure if I'm correct or not, but I think the G3's now have the ability to get up to 1 GHz but hasn't yet.
type thing like a lot of other UBB boards out there, but since you don't, post counts only matter, for people to act superior
for the record, before the crash I had about 400 posts
*sob* *sob* *sob*
perhaps the faster mac will be at 1,13 ghz, be happy if you see more : it's just a 233 mhz speed bump.