Anyone tell me when...

[Pippin]

Ok i know this is boring and repitative, but i must have some sort of date for the new G5's???
If not i may loose all hope and crawl into a dark space and die.

When Oh when Oh when????

[jhawk28]

No dates, but I heard that it shall be soon.

Joshua

[Go3iverson]

The real question is, what will they release...

We know this has to be soon as AMD dropped their Athlon 64 after the G5 and have already updated the line once. Like I posted before, we're deep into the 12 month/3GHz promise by Steve Jobs. He announced it in June '03, which was about 8 months ago, leaving 4 months left until we were promised 3GHz. What does Apple do? They can't let us wait a full year for a single update to the PowerMac G5, after they gained so much attention bringing it out with such a promising road map. On the other hand, it seems odd to see the PowerMac timeline go 2.0Ghz, 2.6GHz, 2.8GHz, and 3.0GHz.

Personally, I think this month Apple, if they can, should go for it big time. Drop a high end 3.0GHz PowerMac. Beat the expectations, cause commotion and achieve a full 1GHz speed bump within 8 months. Remember, AMD's Athlon 64 3000+ chip is only clocked at 1.99GHz. Without getting into their FX line, even a 3400+ chip shouldn't be faster than 2.4GHz in real clock. Being the first to 3.0GHz in the 64-bit platform would be huge.

What does the Fx line clock at anyway?

[uoba]

A 64-bit system would be nice as well Noticed MS are throwing out betas of their 64-bit OS now.

[bobw]

March 2, 2004

[Go3iverson]

Yeah, I got the free 1 year XP 64 download to try on the AMD system I built. You'd have to think that Apple has something 64 bit up their sleeves...we can hope!

Again, I think it'd be a missed opportunity to ship a 64 bit chip with a fully ready 64 bit OS before anyone else.

[chevy]

they are RUMORS of new chips including 2 G5 cores...
wait and see.

you have the choice: either you wait for the newest chips and you buy as soon as they arrive... or you wait for others to buy these and find the bugs... and you buy a machine that is less sexy 6 months later but that operates without a glitch.

after having been a first timer on the B&W, I now wait for the second generation of anything before I buy :-)

[Go3iverson]

See, now that's the issue. From what I saw from IBM's roadmap, the chips will keep getting big time changes to them as they increase the clockspeed and continue producing more powerful CPU's. I've read about the dual cores, which is great to hear, I've also read something about some sort of hyperthreading, which would be cool too. The issue is, how do you know its really a second generation anymore? My thought is coming from this:

We have a 2.0GHz G5 chip, now, if we Apple released an identical chip, but clocked at 2.5GHz, then that'd be a true second generation you can hang your hat on and say the bugs were killed in v.1.

But IBM/Apple won't do that. They'll release it with something new/different, be it dual cores, hyperthreading, different cache sizes...something. Then you go back, in theory, to step one. Since the hardware changed to incorporate newer technologies, your version 2 CPU is v.2 G5, but v.1 with dual cores, or some advancement.

Hopefully that was remotely coherent.