| Tuesday, January 29, 2002 |
17:24 - Ah, so they're Apollos after all...
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/29.motorola.php
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This article describes a Motorola interview that confirms, much to my surprise, that the new series of Power Macs actually do have the new Apollo series of G4s in them (MPC7455).
This is good news across the board-- it means we can benefit from the greater speed rampability of the Apollo from now until the G5s get here, and this will be especially good for mobile use when the new chips get into Apple's laptops-- not to mention people like Cisco and all the embedded manufacturers who are building products around G4s.
While not essential for Apple, low power consumption is important for all of the other manufacturers who use G4s. At 1GHz, the 7455 typically dissipates about 20W of heat. At 600MHz, this drops to around 10W. To compare, a 1GHz AMD Athlon typically dissipates around 50W of heat.
I still can't wait to see someone do an Itanium laptop. 110W, or whatever it was...
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