Well, January might be a good target for announcement of a 2.5 Ghz 970 Mac, if they are anticipating hitting 3 Ghz in 12 months. Other changes to expect? Maybe with cooler chips they'll have room for more drives or optical bays. Maybe they'll have a magical custom graphics card. Maybe they will grate cheese.
I would be interested to see what happens with the iMac and Powerbook lineup - perhaps they will get die-shrunk 970's in or around January.
The first G5 won't ship until end of August. Christmas is four months later. Too soon. It would be nice though.
Panther will be shipping by year end, and Apple would benefit in sales if they have revisions to their computers when it ships. They have a good start with the G5's release, they need to keep the momentum up if they are going to double their market share.
Each G5 dissipates 97 watts, which generates so much heat that Apple had to design a new enclosure with four independently controlled thermal zones, each with its own fan.
Seriously kids, it may be a while before the 970 appears in anything besides the PowerMac, and in quantities of more than two.
That's at 2 GHz. 48W @ 1.8 GHz, and 20W @ 1.4 GHz. Clock rate is very expensive in terms of heat and power. The shrink to 0.09 and improvements in materials should improve the power output considerably, but even before then the lower speed chips could be used in lesser cases. Only time will tell if they will be, or if Apple will use the 7457 instead.
I doubt we'll see a quad chip machine from Apple, but we might see a quad core machine if IBM releases a dual core version. More likely is an SMT version as dual cores is quite expensive.
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Originally posted by Astronaut Jones
Just have to wonder, what do we have to look forward to in the next generation of PowerMac G5's? More duals seem obvious, maybe quads?
Just thinking out loud here...
i dont think the case can handle quads...
Originally posted by Akumulator
hopefully more duals.... SJ said it would be up to 3ghz in year. So does that mean 2.5ghz (rev. b) around christmas?
The first G5 won't ship until end of August. Christmas is four months later. Too soon. It would be nice though.
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I would be interested to see what happens with the iMac and Powerbook lineup - perhaps they will get die-shrunk 970's in or around January.
Originally posted by Barto
Who the hell cares?
I do... a lot!
So don't read the thread if you don't care let alone post your degrading comment.
Thanks.
Originally posted by EDS66
I would very much like that dual 3 Gz G5 they are promising in one year's time.
Nobody said they would be double. I mean, it's probable, but don't get all our hopes up right away.
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Originally posted by Dave K.
The first G5 won't ship until end of August. Christmas is four months later. Too soon. It would be nice though.
Panther will be shipping by year end, and Apple would benefit in sales if they have revisions to their computers when it ships. They have a good start with the G5's release, they need to keep the momentum up if they are going to double their market share.
Each G5 dissipates 97 watts, which generates so much heat that Apple had to design a new enclosure with four independently controlled thermal zones, each with its own fan.
http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030623S0092
Seriously kids, it may be a while before the 970 appears in anything besides the PowerMac, and in quantities of more than two.
Originally posted by cowerd
http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030623S0092
Seriously kids, it may be a while before the 970 appears in anything besides the PowerMac, and in quantities of more than two.
That's at 2 GHz. 48W @ 1.8 GHz, and 20W @ 1.4 GHz. Clock rate is very expensive in terms of heat and power. The shrink to 0.09 and improvements in materials should improve the power output considerably, but even before then the lower speed chips could be used in lesser cases. Only time will tell if they will be, or if Apple will use the 7457 instead.
I doubt we'll see a quad chip machine from Apple, but we might see a quad core machine if IBM releases a dual core version. More likely is an SMT version as dual cores is quite expensive.