Interesting and disappointing news regarding Power Mac speed bump

bodhibodhi
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
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Just passing the info along guys....





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  • Reply 1 of 123
    jasonppjasonpp Posts: 308member
    733 low end? Is Apple finaly going to offer a $599 tower for business?
  • Reply 2 of 123
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    Keeping a 733 seems hard to believe, given the iMac at 800. The dual Ghz is what I've heard from others on these boards who've seemed more in the know than the rest of us. But it seemed more along the lines of:



    good: under 1Ghz, single

    better: just over 1 Ghz, single

    best: dual 1 Ghz
  • Reply 3 of 123
    corvettecorvette Posts: 561member
    that sucks
  • Reply 4 of 123
    cdhostagecdhostage Posts: 1,038member
    Makes sense. Although I automatically dobt the source.



    Right. Disappointing. 800 bottom, 1 GHz top. MAbye there are enough 1 GHz chips to make the top one dual processor./
  • Reply 5 of 123
    bill mbill m Posts: 324member
    A year ago, the high end was the 733, which became the low end in July '01 with the introduction of the 867. Now that the new iMac has an 800, there is no way on earth (even with level 3 cache) that Apple is going to bring a new tower under 800. Given the logic steps described above, we can expect the current 867 to become the low end fairly soon... or better yet, a new bus rated at 200mhz, so:



    New G4 towers:

    900 x 1 (200 bus 4.5x)

    1000 x 2 (200 bus 5x) &lt;-- AMD, P5 Wintel killer

    1100 x 1 (200 bus 5.5x)





    :cool:
  • Reply 6 of 123
    cindercinder Posts: 381member
    This guy doesn't have any more credibility than the other 50 rumors sites - all of which are predicting significantly higher speeds.



    Being conservative doesn't make your guesses more than guesses.



    and if this is true anyway, that would mean we're probably not gonna see any increased bus speeds, DDR, etc.



    And that's pretty crappy, too.



    I just don't see Apple underwhelming us with this info in a press release.
  • Reply 6 of 123
    nerudaneruda Posts: 439member
    I've said it before and I'll say it again:

    G3: dead

    G4: consumer line

    G4e/Apollo: initially professional line, then replaced by,

    G5: don't know if this will happen by MWNY, but it will definitely happen in 2002.



    <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15852.html"; target="_blank">http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/15852.html</a>;
  • Reply 6 of 123
    jcgjcg Posts: 777member
    Apple is clearing out the 733 Towers. UCLA has a special on them in thier book store for $999 due to a "special purchase" The wouldnt have this if it were to continue to be the low end...
  • Reply 9 of 123
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    [quote]Originally posted by JCG:

    <strong>Apple is clearing out the 733 Towers. UCLA has a special on them in thier book store for $999 due to a "special purchase" The wouldnt have this if it were to continue to be the low end...</strong><hr></blockquote>



    It would if the new 733 had a faster bus and faster graphics.
  • Reply 10 of 123
    rickagrickag Posts: 1,626member
    What Apple needs to do is quite irrelevant to what they are capable of doing.



    If what this poster said about the towers is true, then the best Motorola can supply right now is the current G4 made using SOI, and maybe for only parts of the processor.



    I'm not sure, but this isn't Apollo? I've always been under the impression that Apollo incorporated a 0.13µ die?



    If true, I believe this means Apollo arrives in July and the G5 very late in 2002 or early 2003.
  • Reply 10 of 123
    gnomgnom Posts: 85member
    not very likely IMO.

    They won´t make the dual with the highest clocked chip (apart from all the other arguments with iMac being 80MHz etc.).





    bye.
  • Reply 12 of 123
    corvettecorvette Posts: 561member
    [quote]Originally posted by Bodhi:

    <strong>



    It would if the new 733 had a faster bus and faster graphics.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    this feature is blind to most consumers.. they will look at clock rate first.
  • Reply 13 of 123
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    [quote]Originally posted by corvette:

    <strong>



    this feature is blind to most consumers.. they will look at clock rate first.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Not in fantasy land where Jobs and Mot live.
  • Reply 14 of 123
    suckfuldotcomsuckfuldotcom Posts: 550member
    What? We don't have enough threads with specious information here that we need to look to other places for specious threads?



    Wow.



    SdC
  • Reply 14 of 123
    apple.otakuapple.otaku Posts: 590member
    [quote]Originally posted by Bodhi:

    <strong><a href="http://bbs.xlr8yourmac.com/ubb/Forum22/HTML/000478.html"; target="_blank">Read Here</a>



    Just passing the info along guys....





    <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Sounds about right. We are not going to see anything remarkable until the second half of this year. They even alluded to as much in the financial report. This is a transitional product to hold us over until the G5 arrives toward the end of the year.
  • Reply 16 of 123
    apple.otakuapple.otaku Posts: 590member
    [quote]Originally posted by suckfuldotcom:



    <strong>What? We don't have enough threads with specious information here that we need to look to other places for specious threads?



    Wow.



    SdC</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Well, until AI starts posting I guess so. I see that SpyMac (yeah, yeah, I know) has been posting like crazy. They say the new iMacs will start arriving tomorrow. Greedy bastards but at least they are showing some effort...



    [ 01-17-2002: Message edited by: apple.otaku ]</p>
  • Reply 17 of 123
    rickagrickag Posts: 1,626member
    Bodhi

    Got to tell you, I'm getting to the point that when I see you post I get a little unnerved.



    First you post that we may very well not see any changes to the PowerMacs @ MWSF and the rest is history.



    Now this



    But based on the comments a Motorola rep made to, who was it, Macworld?, that the next G4 would be SOI on 0.18µ this seems accurate.



    [ 01-17-2002: Message edited by: rickag ]</p>
  • Reply 18 of 123
    crayzcrayz Posts: 73member
    1000 x 2 (200 bus 5x) &lt;-- AMD, P5 Wintel killer



    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....o ohhhh.......ooooohhhhh man......AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA....OK, I'm done
  • Reply 19 of 123
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    [quote]Originally posted by suckfuldotcom:

    <strong>What? We don't have enough threads with specious information here that we need to look to other places for specious threads?



    Wow.



    SdC</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yeah and about 90% of them were started by you!



    4 and counting on the first page alone...



    [ 01-17-2002: Message edited by: Bodhi ]</p>
  • Reply 20 of 123
    macgregormacgregor Posts: 1,434member
    Those specs would only be place holders and sure wouldn't bother me if it meant they could DROP THE PRICES!!



    That would be blessing in disguise.
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