| Friday, January 18, 2002 |
11:00 - 1GHz PowerMacs next week?
http://www.macuser.co.uk/macsurfer/newnews/newsarticle.php3?id=1695
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Okay, so apparently Apple noticed the same thing the rest of the world noticed: that the iMacs now present a better package across the board than their top-end G4 towers. So it seems they're getting ready for a speed-bump to widen the gap a little.
A little, mind you. The new top-end machine is supposed to be a dual 1GHz. Whoah, big whoop. That'll sure shut 'em up.
I'm worried about what they think the G5 will buy. Sure, it'll debut at 1.2 through 1.6GHz speeds... but that's about as high as it will ever get. The G5 design is supposed to top out at 2GHz. If they expect this processor to have any legs, they'd... hmm. I don't know what they'd better do. I don't know what they can do.
Maybe they have a very short lifespan in mind for the G5; maybe the G6 and G7 specs we've been reading about are closer to reality than we'd thought.
I sure hope so, anyway. Because just watch, Intel will magically not need to EOL the x86 line after all, and will come out with a Pentium 5 with a 42-stage pipeline running at 6GHz and spec'ed up to 20GHz.
We need the Itanium very quickly so we can leapfrog it.
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