Moto sez: no G5 in January
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Sorry, guys. Everyone can calm down now.
Sorry, guys. Everyone can calm down now.
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Couple of questions:
The G4 maxes out around 1Ghz? That's not a good sign for Apollo, is it?
The G5 has a .10 process, rapid I/O, 64-bit and 32-bit backward compatibility. That looks like it's not going to simply be Apollo renamed G5.
Can anyone confirm whether Moto has successfully started manufacturing on the .1 micron process? I didn't think they had, but I could be very wrong. IMHO, that's the most telling part of the whole interview, making me think that the G5 won't be here until later in 2002...
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Can anyone confirm whether Moto has successfully started manufacturing on the .1 micron process? </strong><hr></blockquote>
AFAIK, they aren't remotely close. They just cracked 0.13.
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<strong>I thought G5 was .13?</strong><hr></blockquote>IIRC, there was some naming convention that Moto calls .13 what would usually be called .15, so maybe by .10 they really mean .13.
I don't remember the details, though. Help someone?
apple_otaku
This "denial" from Moto is really a "non-denial". They COULD have flat-out said, "No G5 in the near future." What they actually said was, "We don't want to spoil any of Apple's product announcements," which implies (to me anyway) that there actually is a product to be announced soon by Apple. It may not be a G5 Mac, but there appears to be something afoot. MWSF should be rather intersting, in any event.
Tom Moyer
When they said the G4 had potential then followed up with Sisco likes the chip. Nothing about or eluding to Apple using the chip in Jan. The speed increase would only be 67mhz?
I think it's a good sign
But does anyone listen to me? Nooooooo...
apple_otaku
Some of you guys are going to be very sad and disappointed come MWSF.
apple_otaku
"I don't want to fan the flames ..." != no G5
The only strange thing is that Mot says
-Lots of headroom on the G4
-G4 will max to 1GHz.
One of these statements is not true, in my estimation.
What you can look forward to in January is some form of updated iMac with a top end G3 in the above GHZ range and a dual G4 at a GHZ with a faster bus speed. Just my opionion and it is worth about as much as everyone elses conjectures. :cool:
<strong>There might be an announcement of the G5 in January and there might even be a demo of a G5 OS X 2.0 in January, but I wouldn't look for a release until mid year. It will take at least that long to proof the G5, to tweak the OS and to ramp up the approved G5s for production. Considering that a great many other changes will be in store such as faster bus speeds and memory changes June seems a more realistic date for shipping. As a matter of fact the G5 may be introduced as a server prior to a top end consumer solution to start with.
What you can look forward to in January is some form of updated iMac with a top end G3 in the above GHZ range and a dual G4 at a GHZ with a faster bus speed. Just my opionion and it is worth about as much as everyone elses conjectures. :cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>
The arguement to that is why anounce a G5 if you hope to sell G4s? Why would anyone buy a G4 when they just showed you the awesome G5 which is coming very soon? Either the G5 shows or it doesn't. I don't seem Apple announcing if it isn't ready yet.