Why do you want the PPC970?
It is by no means certain that the 970 will be coming in the next PowerMac, or any other Macintosh computer, but, the general concensus among the rumor community is that it will. The timing is not clear, but many of the details have been revealed by IBM and otheres. Anyway, my question is, why do you want the 970?
Personally, I think that many people have overly hopeful expectations about the effect that the 970 will have on the Macintosh. The 970 is not going to make the millions of wintel users realize the benefits of the Mac and make them switch. Most consumers just look at numbers, not performance, sad but true. So, your average consumer is stilll going to look at Intel at around 3+ ghz somewhere and look at the Mac at ~ 1.8 ghz. 3 is much bigger than 1.8, so, they will perceive the 970 as slower, even if it is not. The 970 may not even increase powermac sales signifcantly, because if companies wanted faster macs, they are available now. I think there are other reasons why the PowerMac sales are down dealing much with the economy and with a difficult transition to MacOS X which the 970 will not fix.
So, I ask my question again, why do you want the 970, are you waiting to buy one, or do you think that it will have a greater effect than on just you? Personally, I just want to see the 970 beat down Intel's latest at video editing benchmarks, lightwave and maya and things like that, I don't hope to own one for a long time after release. So, that is my reason, what is yours?
Skipp
Personally, I think that many people have overly hopeful expectations about the effect that the 970 will have on the Macintosh. The 970 is not going to make the millions of wintel users realize the benefits of the Mac and make them switch. Most consumers just look at numbers, not performance, sad but true. So, your average consumer is stilll going to look at Intel at around 3+ ghz somewhere and look at the Mac at ~ 1.8 ghz. 3 is much bigger than 1.8, so, they will perceive the 970 as slower, even if it is not. The 970 may not even increase powermac sales signifcantly, because if companies wanted faster macs, they are available now. I think there are other reasons why the PowerMac sales are down dealing much with the economy and with a difficult transition to MacOS X which the 970 will not fix.
So, I ask my question again, why do you want the 970, are you waiting to buy one, or do you think that it will have a greater effect than on just you? Personally, I just want to see the 970 beat down Intel's latest at video editing benchmarks, lightwave and maya and things like that, I don't hope to own one for a long time after release. So, that is my reason, what is yours?
Skipp
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- It's the powermac G64
- It's 64 bits.
- It's really expensive.
- It comes with lots of ram.
- It's fast.
- It's cool.
- It looks cool.
- It's hot.
- It's hot (literally speaking).
- iTunes 4 is gonna rock on it.
- Finally smooooth iCal and keynote performance.
- New mouse and keyboard.
- I really need one
- My QS needs a vacation.
- and lots of other reasons
The PPC 970 WILL increase Powermacs sales. Whether they come from former Wintel owners is not known but there will be high demand.
There's a company that makes very popular software for the area of medicine I work in. Way back when they started using NeXT to code it up. Well guess what? They are moving to OS X. Here's where the need for speed comes in. There are computation in my area that take weeks. We'd love to do many many of these, months, and given are druthers we'd like to use the super accurate methods, year. So we need fast systems. The place I work now started on and still uses alpha.
Now if the 970 is fast fast and cheap enough and great they will sell Mac hardware with the software. The software cost so much the computers come with it.
That's why we I want the 970. Because it could put Apple into a new league.
and because i can talk my boss into getting it at work so i can do stuff faster but only get things out slightly faster...meaning i get to sit around doing nothing EVEN MORE!
1) Speed
2) Speed
3)SPEED!
We all realize the 970 will not bring PC users in droves.
1. College
2. Fast, Faster, Fastest, Ultimate
3. It's really cool...err hot
Originally posted by Scott
...and I'll tell you why.
That's a cool story.
Personally, I'm just going to make sure I can run DOOM III.
To see Moto kissing its own ass
Lastly, Geek pride.
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Originally posted by thegelding
i want a 970 to boost my low self-esteem, to give me an inflated sense of self-worth (similar to doing a couple of beer bongs), and i hear it will increase my penis size (which is always a plus)....
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OMG!
I need one of those now. That means that now I not only have to stay limited to producing and downloading porn, but now I can be in it with the increased manhood the 970 will bring.
I want one because I want Apple's innovations to not be limited by their processors. I think this will just allow them to bring more to the user, and how can that be a bad thing?