I admit that I'm going to be buying a new PowerBook in about 6 weeks, so would love to see a dual-core G4 available at that point. Do you think this might happen?
-- ka, welcome on board. I'm just very curious. Which model
-- of Powerbook are ya buying.
I want a 15" Powerbook, maxed out on CPU, VRAM, hard drive, SuperDrive. Not sure whether I'll go with 1 or 2 GB of RAM. I do a lot of statistics-crunching and some occasional photo editing (from large images) and know it's easier/cheaper to buy it fully configured from the start.
If Apple would come out with a faster CPU --maybe even the fabled dual-core G4-- that would be even nicer. I'm not going to let the Mac-on-Intel stuff scare me off. I know anything I buy will be supported through it's reasonable lifetime.
-- ka, welcome on board. I'm just very curious. Which model
-- of Powerbook are ya buying.
I want a 15" Powerbook, maxed out on CPU, VRAM, hard drive, SuperDrive. Not sure whether I'll go with 1 or 2 GB of RAM. I do a lot of statistics-crunching and some occasional photo editing (from large images) and know it's easier/cheaper to buy it fully configured from the start.
If Apple would come out with a faster CPU --maybe even the fabled dual-core G4-- that would be even nicer. I'm not going to let the Mac-on-Intel stuff scare me off. I know anything I buy will be supported through it's reasonable lifetime.
go with the bare minimum of memory. and then order the 2 gigs from a trusted source like www.crucial.com
you will save some $$ and putting in the chips isn't hard at all.
I admit that I'm going to be buying a new PowerBook in about 6 weeks, so would love to see a dual-core G4 available at that point. Do you think this might happen?
That site has caused a lot of debate here over the past 6 months but the sad fact is that we are unlikely to see that processor in a Powerbook. The next processor in the powerbook will be the 90nm 7448 and that should be coming out in the next 6-8 weeks.
Why 7448 and not 8641D? The 7448 shares the same die package as the current 7447a/b. The 8641D requires a substantially different motherboard design that grows increasingly unlikely if rumors about Yonah going into Apple's mobile line are correct. Why design a new motherboard around that chip and then immediately design an entirely new motherboard to house the Yonah? Can't see that happening.
That site has caused a lot of debate here over the past 6 months but the sad fact is that we are unlikely to see that processor in a Powerbook. The next processor in the powerbook will be the 90nm 7448 and that should be coming out in the next 6-8 weeks.
Why 7448 and not 8641D? The 7448 shares the same die package as the current 7447a/b. The 8641D requires a substantially different motherboard design that grows increasingly unlikely if rumors about Yonah going into Apple's mobile line are correct. Why design a new motherboard around that chip and then immediately design an entirely new motherboard to house the Yonah? Can't see that happening.
Sorry to burst your bubble
I agree -- I think Apple has shown us its notebook future, and it is Intel's roadmap. The only PPC update we might see is the 7448 since it is essentially a drop-in and it is (hopefully) close to actual production.
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-- What could these new great PowerPC products be?
-- When do you think they will materialize?
I wonder whether we'll see a dual-core G4 in the PowerBook anytime soon. Freescale has the MPC8641D info at:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/...=DRPPCDUALCORE
I admit that I'm going to be buying a new PowerBook in about 6 weeks, so would love to see a dual-core G4 available at that point. Do you think this might happen?
-- ka, welcome on board. I'm just very curious. Which model
-- of Powerbook are ya buying.
I want a 15" Powerbook, maxed out on CPU, VRAM, hard drive, SuperDrive. Not sure whether I'll go with 1 or 2 GB of RAM. I do a lot of statistics-crunching and some occasional photo editing (from large images) and know it's easier/cheaper to buy it fully configured from the start.
If Apple would come out with a faster CPU --maybe even the fabled dual-core G4-- that would be even nicer. I'm not going to let the Mac-on-Intel stuff scare me off. I know anything I buy will be supported through it's reasonable lifetime.
Originally posted by ka2357
-- Originally posted by hardhead
-- ka, welcome on board. I'm just very curious. Which model
-- of Powerbook are ya buying.
I want a 15" Powerbook, maxed out on CPU, VRAM, hard drive, SuperDrive. Not sure whether I'll go with 1 or 2 GB of RAM. I do a lot of statistics-crunching and some occasional photo editing (from large images) and know it's easier/cheaper to buy it fully configured from the start.
If Apple would come out with a faster CPU --maybe even the fabled dual-core G4-- that would be even nicer. I'm not going to let the Mac-on-Intel stuff scare me off. I know anything I buy will be supported through it's reasonable lifetime.
go with the bare minimum of memory. and then order the 2 gigs from a trusted source like www.crucial.com
you will save some $$ and putting in the chips isn't hard at all.
Originally posted by TednDi
go with the bare minimum of memory. and then order the 2 gigs from a trusted source like www.crucial.com
you will save some $$ and putting in the chips isn't hard at all.
It's easy enough that even someone as tool dyslexic as me managed to do it in about ten minutes.
Originally posted by ka2357
-- Originally posted by DHagan4755
-- What could these new great PowerPC products be?
-- When do you think they will materialize?
I wonder whether we'll see a dual-core G4 in the PowerBook anytime soon. Freescale has the MPC8641D info at:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/...=DRPPCDUALCORE
I admit that I'm going to be buying a new PowerBook in about 6 weeks, so would love to see a dual-core G4 available at that point. Do you think this might happen?
That site has caused a lot of debate here over the past 6 months but the sad fact is that we are unlikely to see that processor in a Powerbook. The next processor in the powerbook will be the 90nm 7448 and that should be coming out in the next 6-8 weeks.
Why 7448 and not 8641D? The 7448 shares the same die package as the current 7447a/b. The 8641D requires a substantially different motherboard design that grows increasingly unlikely if rumors about Yonah going into Apple's mobile line are correct. Why design a new motherboard around that chip and then immediately design an entirely new motherboard to house the Yonah? Can't see that happening.
Sorry to burst your bubble
Originally posted by a j stev
That site has caused a lot of debate here over the past 6 months but the sad fact is that we are unlikely to see that processor in a Powerbook. The next processor in the powerbook will be the 90nm 7448 and that should be coming out in the next 6-8 weeks.
Why 7448 and not 8641D? The 7448 shares the same die package as the current 7447a/b. The 8641D requires a substantially different motherboard design that grows increasingly unlikely if rumors about Yonah going into Apple's mobile line are correct. Why design a new motherboard around that chip and then immediately design an entirely new motherboard to house the Yonah? Can't see that happening.
Sorry to burst your bubble
I agree -- I think Apple has shown us its notebook future, and it is Intel's roadmap. The only PPC update we might see is the 7448 since it is essentially a drop-in and it is (hopefully) close to actual production.