i just read the following on spymac and it is an opinion sent in by someone else. however, it should good to me and could be possible. it would be awesome if it came true. i will post it here for everyone to read.
I'm no technical-processor whiz. Not my thing. But I do have a pretty well developed business mind, and a bit of experience to go with it. Accordingly, I mainly think through these issues from an executive management perspective.
All of this IBM talk has resulted from a one paragraph syllabus of a session from the upcoming Microprocessor Forum Conference to be held October 15. The one point of that announcement that struck me was the use of present tense in the two references to the new processor, "...this processor is an 8-way superscalar design...", "The processor is further enhanced by a vector processing unit..." Nowhere in the announcement is there the slightest sense conveyed that this is a "future" product; no "will be," no "is planned," no "is intended to." None of that ambiguous phraseology was there at all. This makes me think that this processor is a real, existing piece... not a developmental idea.
I have also noticed how oddly out of synch the past year has been with Apple's historical product announcement and release cycle. Has anyone else felt things were a little strange in Cupertino? Steve has been crazily upbeat in his public statements about coming through this economic downturn by heavy dependence upon innovation. Yet, where's the innovation, so far? Schiller's been very vocal on a number of occasions about the "terrific, amazing, mind-boggling" new products that are coming. Where are these products? The Power Mac hasn't had an update since the January 29th release of the Dual 1GHz box... not a tweak. And, we just had a highly anticipated Macworld NY without a hint of a significant product announcement. Nothing.
All of this, combined, can only lead to one of two conclusions. (A) Apple management is brain dead, and it's all just overwhelmed them to the point that they've become utter nincompoops, or (B) these guys are still as sharp today as they've been since 1998, and they've been specifically working on Apple's major hardware platform problems. I believe in the second possibility a lot more than the first.
Fact: There is a brand new IBM 64-bit desktop chip. It exists. It is very, very real. The Microprocessor Forum would not be announcing technical sessions on a non-existent product; and, if they did, that bogus announcement would not still be sitting there after a week of world attention. The new chip is real.
Apple has been what they should have been doing, which is working well in advance on solutions to their problems. The entire time that we have been whining about the laggardly performance of the Power Mac series, they have been methodically developing the solution. Along the way, they've kept a great secret (as they are very skilled at doing).
This October 15th will not see a dry IBM engineer giving an equally dry talk on the wiring of some theoretical new chip. He will, instead, be revealing to the world the operational details of the chip that has just previously been introduced to the world in a new line of high-zoot Macs by Apple computer.
It's the only story line that both makes sense and that fits the few slim facts we now have in evidence.
Boys and girls, we have one helluva surprise coming between now and October.
You're forgetting one thing: Where Apple is concerned, if it's too good to be true, then it isn't. Not to be a flat out pessimist, but there's no way in hell we'll see a IBM 64 bit chip in a Power Mac before october. It's just unrealistic.
Next year... well maybe late next year. but I doubt very much that we'll see it before then.
It's not pessimism... it's an opinion formed by watching Apple make lackluster hardware updates for 3 years now. You know, based on experience? I'm not saying I don't want a Power 5 chip (or whatever it is), I'm simply saying we won't see it this month, next month or this year at all. At least not in a Macintosh.
When was the last time you saw a company, be it IBM or Motorola, announce a brand new, significantly different chip... and within one month there were Macs with that chip in it for sale? Why do any of you think that it's suddenly going to happen now?
Don't get me wrong, I want it as much as anybody and I'll be right up there with everybody else putting my cash down for it... I just don't see it coming this year.
Seems like many of us have been saying "next year" for some years now. It's getting rather old...</strong><hr></blockquote>
At least this year there's a believable announcement in a just-the-facts publication of a next generation processor in the works that looks tailor made for Apple, rather than Register reports and general mumblings.
We'll know for sure after the MPF, but it sounds like IBM is at least close to first silicon. So a year (give or take) is about right.
At least this year there's a believable announcement in a just-the-facts publication of a next generation processor in the works that looks tailor made for Apple, rather than Register reports and general mumblings.
We'll know for sure after the MPF, but it sounds like IBM is at least close to first silicon. So a year (give or take) is about right.</strong><hr></blockquote>
good point
I think I may just get an iMac17 until IBM's new PPC makes it into the towers...
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I'm no technical-processor whiz. Not my thing. But I do have a pretty well developed business mind, and a bit of experience to go with it. Accordingly, I mainly think through these issues from an executive management perspective.
All of this IBM talk has resulted from a one paragraph syllabus of a session from the upcoming Microprocessor Forum Conference to be held October 15. The one point of that announcement that struck me was the use of present tense in the two references to the new processor, "...this processor is an 8-way superscalar design...", "The processor is further enhanced by a vector processing unit..." Nowhere in the announcement is there the slightest sense conveyed that this is a "future" product; no "will be," no "is planned," no "is intended to." None of that ambiguous phraseology was there at all. This makes me think that this processor is a real, existing piece... not a developmental idea.
I have also noticed how oddly out of synch the past year has been with Apple's historical product announcement and release cycle. Has anyone else felt things were a little strange in Cupertino? Steve has been crazily upbeat in his public statements about coming through this economic downturn by heavy dependence upon innovation. Yet, where's the innovation, so far? Schiller's been very vocal on a number of occasions about the "terrific, amazing, mind-boggling" new products that are coming. Where are these products? The Power Mac hasn't had an update since the January 29th release of the Dual 1GHz box... not a tweak. And, we just had a highly anticipated Macworld NY without a hint of a significant product announcement. Nothing.
All of this, combined, can only lead to one of two conclusions. (A) Apple management is brain dead, and it's all just overwhelmed them to the point that they've become utter nincompoops, or (B) these guys are still as sharp today as they've been since 1998, and they've been specifically working on Apple's major hardware platform problems. I believe in the second possibility a lot more than the first.
Fact: There is a brand new IBM 64-bit desktop chip. It exists. It is very, very real. The Microprocessor Forum would not be announcing technical sessions on a non-existent product; and, if they did, that bogus announcement would not still be sitting there after a week of world attention. The new chip is real.
Apple has been what they should have been doing, which is working well in advance on solutions to their problems. The entire time that we have been whining about the laggardly performance of the Power Mac series, they have been methodically developing the solution. Along the way, they've kept a great secret (as they are very skilled at doing).
This October 15th will not see a dry IBM engineer giving an equally dry talk on the wiring of some theoretical new chip. He will, instead, be revealing to the world the operational details of the chip that has just previously been introduced to the world in a new line of high-zoot Macs by Apple computer.
It's the only story line that both makes sense and that fits the few slim facts we now have in evidence.
Boys and girls, we have one helluva surprise coming between now and October.
Next year... well maybe late next year. but I doubt very much that we'll see it before then.
If that aint flat out pessemism......!
Why is this unrealistic? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
When was the last time you saw a company, be it IBM or Motorola, announce a brand new, significantly different chip... and within one month there were Macs with that chip in it for sale? Why do any of you think that it's suddenly going to happen now?
Don't get me wrong, I want it as much as anybody and I'll be right up there with everybody else putting my cash down for it... I just don't see it coming this year.
<strong>"Next year... well maybe late next year. but I doubt very much that we'll see it before then."
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Seems like many of us have been saying "next year" for some years now. It's getting rather old...
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Seems like many of us have been saying "next year" for some years now. It's getting rather old...</strong><hr></blockquote>
At least this year there's a believable announcement in a just-the-facts publication of a next generation processor in the works that looks tailor made for Apple, rather than Register reports and general mumblings.
We'll know for sure after the MPF, but it sounds like IBM is at least close to first silicon. So a year (give or take) is about right.
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At least this year there's a believable announcement in a just-the-facts publication of a next generation processor in the works that looks tailor made for Apple, rather than Register reports and general mumblings.
We'll know for sure after the MPF, but it sounds like IBM is at least close to first silicon. So a year (give or take) is about right.</strong><hr></blockquote>
good point
I think I may just get an iMac17 until IBM's new PPC makes it into the towers...
<strong>I think I may just get an iMac17 until IBM's new PPC makes it into the towers...</strong><hr></blockquote>
And my 3 years old G4 350 will do just fine until then.