Don't be silly, you will show your face again : it's just AI. You just recieve your first lesson intituled : how thicken your skin quickly in ten lessons
Hey, don't sweat it. At least you weren't one of the geniuses asking Apple Store personnel about G5 iPods, or claiming that Windows was coming out for the G5.
The general consensus around here is that the earliest we'll see a G5 PowerBook (with a single G5 ) is late next summer.
So what are the chances? I've heard alot of speculations in various threads, but what are the actual chances of PB getting the dual G5's by Macworld(?) in January?...at best slim?
Maciek
Chances are about the same as Apple making a Hostile-Takeover of Microsoft, but then wait a minute...
Thanks, prolly shoulda been thinking with my real brain rather than imagination prior to posting that...
Anyway, what might be in the works for the next PB rev?
It's ok. After all, this is AI, and some degree of oddnes sis expected.
As for the next revision PB, it depends on how long until a G5. There are two options for a next generation PB:
A better G4 + ram/HD/GPU updates.
A G5 PB + ram/HD/GPU updates.
The first option is basically an incremental upgrade and is what I think will probably happen sometime around March. The second option could happen sometime around June if IBM gets a die shrunk 970 chip out sometime by December/January. There is alot more to a G5 PB than the CPU and it is a considerable effort to get such a CPU into a laptop.
[B]So what are the chances? I've heard alot of speculations in various threads, but what are the actual chances of PB getting the dual G5's by Macworld(?) in January?...at best slim?
No...I'd say more like 0.002 out of 100.00. That's just my guess. Right now I'd say that we are at an ackward moment in the portable line-up and everything will stay g4 until around September of 2004.
Great time to be an ibooker. Not the best time to be a powerbooker (although you're reign on top will be coming soon powerbookers, and will last for much longer...).
You are never going to get dual CPUs in a laptop, let alone dual G5s in a laptop let alone Dual G5's by this coming January in a PB. It is NOT going to happen
Whoever told you this is smoking cheap crack.
All processors are going to go dual over the next few years -- multiple cores per die looks like its going to become the norm. Of course this is certainly not this January, and probably not by Jan '05 either. I'd be very surprised to see one G5 in a laptop before May '04 at the earliest.
All processors are going to go dual over the next few years -- multiple cores per die looks like its going to become the norm. Of course this is certainly not this January, and probably not by Jan '05 either. I'd be very surprised to see one G5 in a laptop before May '04 at the earliest.
Even mentioning May '04 as a possibility seems to put you among the more optimistic, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Surely, given the increasingly creaky G4 system architecture, it would make more sense to have a dual G4 laptop - in the unlikely event that there is ever any dual proc PB? Wouldn't all the G5's improvements - FSB etc - make such a move unnecessary?
And wouldn't heat issues be doubled? I ask because the perceived wisdom around here is that the process shrink, though effective to an extent, will itslef be constrained by frequency jumps and leakage.
There isn't going to be any dual processor PowerBook G5s anytime soon. Be that as it may, one has to wonder what will be the next move for the PowerBooks given that the iBooks now have a G4.
The iBooks have the older G4 processor. Apple couldn't advance the older processor much beyond 1 GHz in notebooks, so what will Apple do with the G4 in iBooks in the next rev? Move them to the new 7447? That would put them somewhat more on level playing field with the PowerBooks if they continue with the G4.
Does that mean dual processor PowerBook G4s in the next revision to distinguish the iBook from the PowerBook? Or can they actually squeeze a G5 in the PowerBook? Either way, with dual G4's or G5's they have to do something about heat. Even at the current single processor G4 speeds, these PowerBooks get hot.
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Sry...didn't do research before I posted.
~Never shows his face on forums again...
Maciek
Originally posted by Sh0eWax
Sry...didn't do research before I posted.
~Never shows his face on forums again...
Maciek
Don't be silly, you will show your face again : it's just AI. You just recieve your first lesson intituled : how thicken your skin quickly in ten lessons
September the 4th 2003
Hardware: IBM to produce 0.06um PowerPCs by the end of the year.
macosXrumors
But in all seriousness how about Dual Core Power5 derivative in 2005
(In a PowerBook that is (water cooling)).
Welcome aboard.
Anyway, what might be in the works for the next PB rev?
The general consensus around here is that the earliest we'll see a G5 PowerBook (with a single G5
Originally posted by Sh0eWax
So what are the chances? I've heard alot of speculations in various threads, but what are the actual chances of PB getting the dual G5's by Macworld(?) in January?...at best slim?
Maciek
Chances are about the same as Apple making a Hostile-Takeover of Microsoft, but then wait a minute...
Originally posted by Sh0eWax
Thanks, prolly shoulda been thinking with my real brain rather than imagination prior to posting that...
Anyway, what might be in the works for the next PB rev?
It's ok. After all, this is AI, and some degree of oddnes sis expected.
As for the next revision PB, it depends on how long until a G5. There are two options for a next generation PB:
A better G4 + ram/HD/GPU updates.
A G5 PB + ram/HD/GPU updates.
The first option is basically an incremental upgrade and is what I think will probably happen sometime around March. The second option could happen sometime around June if IBM gets a die shrunk 970 chip out sometime by December/January. There is alot more to a G5 PB than the CPU and it is a considerable effort to get such a CPU into a laptop.
Originally posted by filmmaker2002
Didn't hell freeze over last week?
Only part of it
Originally posted by Sh0eWax
[B]So what are the chances? I've heard alot of speculations in various threads, but what are the actual chances of PB getting the dual G5's by Macworld(?) in January?...at best slim?
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On a scale of 1-100? I'd say about 2.
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/39023-1.html
Great time to be an ibooker. Not the best time to be a powerbooker (although you're reign on top will be coming soon powerbookers, and will last for much longer...).
unless the pb casing is made out of krypton, the case would melt.
no pb g5 until late 2004. and forget dual in pb.
Originally posted by Big Mac
I'm surprised this thread hasn't been locked yet. It's about as useful as tits on a boar.
Hey!!
My friend is a boar farmer and he says tits on a boar are very useful!!
I mean the little guys gotta eat something before they head off to the sausage factory!!
There have been more funny animal analogies than I've seen in a long time.
-> tits on a boar -
-> celluloid dog -
Originally posted by Yevgeny
You are never going to get dual CPUs in a laptop, let alone dual G5s in a laptop let alone Dual G5's by this coming January in a PB. It is NOT going to happen
Whoever told you this is smoking cheap crack.
All processors are going to go dual over the next few years -- multiple cores per die looks like its going to become the norm. Of course this is certainly not this January, and probably not by Jan '05 either. I'd be very surprised to see one G5 in a laptop before May '04 at the earliest.
Originally posted by Programmer
All processors are going to go dual over the next few years -- multiple cores per die looks like its going to become the norm. Of course this is certainly not this January, and probably not by Jan '05 either. I'd be very surprised to see one G5 in a laptop before May '04 at the earliest.
Even mentioning May '04 as a possibility seems to put you among the more optimistic, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Surely, given the increasingly creaky G4 system architecture, it would make more sense to have a dual G4 laptop - in the unlikely event that there is ever any dual proc PB? Wouldn't all the G5's improvements - FSB etc - make such a move unnecessary?
And wouldn't heat issues be doubled? I ask because the perceived wisdom around here is that the process shrink, though effective to an extent, will itslef be constrained by frequency jumps and leakage.
The iBooks have the older G4 processor. Apple couldn't advance the older processor much beyond 1 GHz in notebooks, so what will Apple do with the G4 in iBooks in the next rev? Move them to the new 7447? That would put them somewhat more on level playing field with the PowerBooks if they continue with the G4.
Does that mean dual processor PowerBook G4s in the next revision to distinguish the iBook from the PowerBook? Or can they actually squeeze a G5 in the PowerBook? Either way, with dual G4's or G5's they have to do something about heat. Even at the current single processor G4 speeds, these PowerBooks get hot.
this has been *confirmed* and you heard it here first!