What's to Become of the 750GX?

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snoopysnoopy
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Many thought the soon to be released IBM 750GX would go in the iBook. Now it looks like Apple will not be buying the G3 any more. Maybe the clock rate of the 750GX was too high compared with the G4 PowerBooks, and the 1 MB L2 cache may provide too much performance in tasks that do not make use of the Velocity Engine. Then too, maybe Motorola offered Apple an outstanding price on the older G4. Well, I guess that is the end of the G3 at Apple. Or is it?



Could the G3 eventually reappear in a lower cost Mac for business and schools? For the immediate future, the only Mac use for the 750GX might be as a terrific processor upgrade to Beige and B&W G3 Power Macs. Likely the 750GX would not even appear in a lower cost Mac before a faster G4 is here, maybe from IBM. This would be the much discussed 750VX with Velocity Engine, produced on the 90 nanometer chip manufacturing line.



Anyone else got some thoughts about this? I'm just puzzled and making guesses.

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    akumulatorakumulator Posts: 1,111member
    new newton? tablet? I don't know. I don't care for either one anyway.
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    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    If Apple ever does go back to the 750 series, it will be when they support Altivec. I suspect Macs could use the 750VX, which will be called a G4, once Apple moves it's entire professional lineup to the G5.
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    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Removed at the request of apple legal



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    thunderpoitthunderpoit Posts: 709member
    Introducing the new color screened iPod AV G4



    28 min of batt. life, just enough time to watch a divx and jam to some tunes
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