This whole story has a creepy downside (at least for me). I certainly remember how the prospect of the PPC 8500/G5 electrified the community back then much in the same way as today the rumored roadmaps featuring a 975/3.5Ghz to arrive this year, a dual core 976 next year and a Power6-based chip two years down the road.
I sincerely hope Apple can do _much_ better selling the machines as they did in the past, because else IBM is going to lose interest rather quickly.
This whole story has a creepy downside (at least for me). I certainly remember how the prospect of the PPC 8500/G5 electrified the community back then much in the same way as today the rumored roadmaps featuring a 975/3.5Ghz to arrive this year, a dual core 976 next year and a Power6-based chip two years down the road.
I sincerely hope Apple can do _much_ better selling the machines as they did in the past, because else IBM is going to lose interest rather quickly.
Come on IBM can't lose interest, Microsoft is going to use this chip. I want to have that machine. So does my 13 year old. lol
Man, with the dawn of the new 64-bit G5 processor (with 48-bit memory addressing), the name should have been changed. I was seriously hoping they would get away from the G-names.
The PPC 601 was G1, 603/604 was G2....all 32-bit.
When I heard that they were looking into calling the G5 the X1, it was even more exciting. That, in the story book way, not from a technical standpoint at all.
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I sincerely hope Apple can do _much_ better selling the machines as they did in the past, because else IBM is going to lose interest rather quickly.
Originally posted by Smircle
This whole story has a creepy downside (at least for me). I certainly remember how the prospect of the PPC 8500/G5 electrified the community back then much in the same way as today the rumored roadmaps featuring a 975/3.5Ghz to arrive this year, a dual core 976 next year and a Power6-based chip two years down the road.
I sincerely hope Apple can do _much_ better selling the machines as they did in the past, because else IBM is going to lose interest rather quickly.
Come on IBM can't lose interest, Microsoft is going to use this chip. I want to have that machine. So does my 13 year old. lol
The PPC 601 was G1, 603/604 was G2....all 32-bit.
When I heard that they were looking into calling the G5 the X1, it was even more exciting. That, in the story book way, not from a technical standpoint at all.
HEH,
walloo.