So, all in all, what is everyone's expectations on _when_ the PowerBook line will be rev'd?
I am looking to buy a 17" next week -- is it safe?
Seems to me no updated Powerbooks until MWSF in Jan. 2005, especially with the Quark promotion, and the Apple Store showing all sizes of the Powerbooks shipping same business day.
In the future, can the processors get even faster? I mean, if you go smaller and smaller, will there be a time where you couldn't? Just wondering...
Da Vinci dreamed of the flying man and built the world's first submarine during the Renaissance. Man relaized his dream hundreds and hundreds of years later. Apple put a G4 into a laptop...anything can happen. IMO, the industry is gonna hit a wall soon for atleast a decade at processor speed, but then the chips could be reinvented and the could have an entirely new form that would allow, oh say, a G10 PowerMac...
Da Vinci dreamed of the flying man and built the world's first submarine during the Renaissance. Man relaized his dream hundreds and hundreds of years later. Apple put a G4 into a laptop...anything can happen. IMO, the industry is gonna hit a wall soon for atleast a decade at processor speed, but then the chips could be reinvented and the could have an entirely new form that would allow, oh say, a G10 PowerMac...
We just got done hashing this out in the PowerMac not getting any faster forum. All in all it ended up getting locked because there wasn't any logic of chips not getting any faster. Clockspeed very well may hit a wall some day... But clockspeed isn't what makes a CPU fast... we all should know this by now.
The forum argued that 2.5ghz is the max the PPC will see.... there wasn't any proof to this argument... the person that stated it said he worked for IBM and was an insider... he was soon trampled on by our users.
All in all... the Powerbook has a long way to go before it will hit a clockspeed wall...
Also shrinking the process ... say from 130nm->90nm or 180nm->130nm... or 90nm->65nm... There is a point to doing this. That is to use less transistors... less heat... and in the long run to fit more components. Less heat allows for higher bus and multiplier frequencies. As long as they can get the leakage under control, we'll see faster chips in those powerbooks then we see now.
BTW... from rumors IBM is very close to producing a low-k g5... low power etc... things are looking up.
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Originally posted by BerberCarpet
So, all in all, what is everyone's expectations on _when_ the PowerBook line will be rev'd?
I am looking to buy a 17" next week -- is it safe?
Seems to me no updated Powerbooks until MWSF in Jan. 2005, especially with the Quark promotion, and the Apple Store showing all sizes of the Powerbooks shipping same business day.
Originally posted by trtam
In the future, can the processors get even faster? I mean, if you go smaller and smaller, will there be a time where you couldn't? Just wondering...
Da Vinci dreamed of the flying man and built the world's first submarine during the Renaissance. Man relaized his dream hundreds and hundreds of years later. Apple put a G4 into a laptop...anything can happen. IMO, the industry is gonna hit a wall soon for atleast a decade at processor speed, but then the chips could be reinvented and the could have an entirely new form that would allow, oh say, a G10 PowerMac...
Originally posted by ineedag5pbnow
Da Vinci dreamed of the flying man and built the world's first submarine during the Renaissance. Man relaized his dream hundreds and hundreds of years later. Apple put a G4 into a laptop...anything can happen. IMO, the industry is gonna hit a wall soon for atleast a decade at processor speed, but then the chips could be reinvented and the could have an entirely new form that would allow, oh say, a G10 PowerMac...
We just got done hashing this out in the PowerMac not getting any faster forum. All in all it ended up getting locked because there wasn't any logic of chips not getting any faster. Clockspeed very well may hit a wall some day... But clockspeed isn't what makes a CPU fast... we all should know this by now.
The forum argued that 2.5ghz is the max the PPC will see.... there wasn't any proof to this argument... the person that stated it said he worked for IBM and was an insider... he was soon trampled on by our users.
All in all... the Powerbook has a long way to go before it will hit a clockspeed wall...
Also shrinking the process ... say from 130nm->90nm or 180nm->130nm... or 90nm->65nm... There is a point to doing this. That is to use less transistors... less heat... and in the long run to fit more components. Less heat allows for higher bus and multiplier frequencies. As long as they can get the leakage under control, we'll see faster chips in those powerbooks then we see now.
BTW... from rumors IBM is very close to producing a low-k g5... low power etc... things are looking up.