New Mot Chip at MWSF?

alpha macalpha mac
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
<a href="http://www.looprumors.com/"; target="_blank">www.looprumors.com/</a>

I'am not to shore about this one every rumor i sea is the same these days, but it could happen this time round.



[ 12-02-2002: Message edited by: Alpha Mac ]</p>

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    opuscroakusopuscroakus Posts: 317member
    If a chip that is less robust and cooler than a current G4 is put into an iMac, knowing Apple it'll be a G3... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 2 of 10
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    OS 9 runs in a Unix shell, huh.

    So TruBlue is actually a small script that executes "bash -classic"



    ...and what does "less robust" mean?



    Screed ...the mind boggles, the eyes tear, the washing machine goes on spin cycle.



    [ 12-02-2002: Message edited by: sCreeD ]</p>
  • Reply 3 of 10
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Maybe they are referring to the 7457?
  • Reply 4 of 10
    eddivelyeddively Posts: 74member
    Why would Apple put a G5 into the iMac before the powermacs? The article spoke of the possiblity of that happening...that will never happen. Inevitably the iMac will be faster than the PowerMac then. However a new...(faster???) CPU for the iMac seems odd because if it gets too much faster it would simply interfere with baseline PowerMac sales....this is an odd path for Apple to follow, but if they do..I am sure they know what they are doing.
  • Reply 5 of 10
    henriokhenriok Posts: 537member
    It can't be the 7457 they are speaking of because it will jsut be the regular 7455 we're using now, put on a new 130 nm-fab. There's nothing to OS9 witch won't let it boot from any new PowerPC-processor. The issue for Apple is that they don't want to support OS9 anymore, cause its DEAD! The changes for witch they won't add the necessary OS9 support to will be probably be some kind of new or revised chipset.



    I guess that Apple could pull some new and exotic processor out of its hat, courtesy of IBM or Motorola, but that'd be very unlikely. There won't be a really new processor until 970, I'm quite sure of it.
  • Reply 6 of 10
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    If iMacs were to get a new processor then it would have to be a revision of the G4 across the board, therefore a revision to the PowerMacs as well. Perhaps these are the chips* that will tide Apple (and us) over until the 970.





    *<a href="http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/22.4.shtml"; target="_blank">Macobserver covering the 7457</a>



    Screed
  • Reply 7 of 10
    running with scissorsrunning with scissors Posts: 1,124member
    i got a chance to speak with a metrowerks guy (fairly high level marketing guy) last week over some beers during the thanksgiving break. he's dating a friend of mine's roommate. i asked him all the basic questions regarding what he might know on any new chips coming from moto. from what he was willing to divulge, don't hold your breath. g-4 is going to be with us for sometime to come with relatively minor changes expected.
  • Reply 8 of 10
    big macbig mac Posts: 480member
    [quote]Originally posted by running with scissors:

    <strong>i got a chance to speak with a metrowerks guy (fairly high level marketing guy) last week over some beers during the thanksgiving break. he's dating a friend of mine's roommate. i asked him all the basic questions regarding what he might know on any new chips coming from moto. from what he was willing to divulge, don't hold your breath. g-4 is going to be with us for sometime to come with relatively minor changes expected.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Finally a friend's-roomate-boyfriend rumor that is actually plausible! In other words, we'll continue to lag far behind for some time to come. Someone light a fire under IBM's rear -- we're being smothered under Mot's dead weight.
  • Reply 9 of 10
    jante99jante99 Posts: 539member
    The new MOTO 7457 processor seems to be the real story here. If it could actually be released at 1.8 GZh that would be amazing. If this were true then the iMac could have atleast a 1.2-1.4 gzh processor. (yeah right). <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    <a href="http://www.macobserver.com"; target="_blank">MacObserver</a> got the information from a pdf about the 8420 series chip.

    <a href="http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/SNDF2002RECAP_Q1228.pdf"; target="_blank">Click Here to Read</a>



    Note: the PDF that the Mac Observer linked to seems to not be available now.



    [ 12-02-2002: Message edited by: jante99 ]</p>
  • Reply 10 of 10
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    [quote]Originally posted by Henriok:

    <strong>It can't be the 7457 they are speaking of because it will jsut be the regular 7455 we're using now, put on a new 130 nm-fab. There's nothing to OS9 witch won't let it boot from any new PowerPC-processor. The issue for Apple is that they don't want to support OS9 anymore, cause its DEAD! The changes for witch they won't add the necessary OS9 support to will be probably be some kind of new or revised chipset.</strong><hr></blockquote>No, they could just simply not allow OS 9 booting by changing the firmware. There doesn't have to be any dramatic change (e.g., the 970) for Apple to stop allowing booting into 9. It may be evil, but I truly think that's what they're going to do in January. Hell, it could even be the same chip but clocked a little higher, and they'll prevent booting into 9.
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