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claims the following for WWDC: Mono PPC 975 To 2.2 GHz AGP 8x FSB 1.1 GHz Superdrive Dual PPC 975 to 2.6 GHz PCI-Express train 16x FSB 1.3 GHz Superdrive Extreme (double layer) Dual PPC 975 to 3 GHz PCI-Express train 16x FSB 1.5 GHz Superdrive Extreme (double layer) Name of the...

Maybe they'll put it in the new 3.65GHz band the FCC allocated for new wireless. How about AirFire or WiLink or Fireless?

How about WiFire?

Hmmm. I'd like to say NVidia for the GPU by Jan, MWSF. Also I'll stick my neck out and say 2.4 GHz dually, 2.2 GHz single, 2.0 GHz single so Apple can brag their entire pro line is at or above 2.0 GHz. And it might allow them to put out a 1.x GHz G5 iMac. I heard IBM's 0.9 um transition is...

Here's an example of times for Seti@Home (5 units) benchmarks. It should be noted I use my G5 as a print server and normally during these benchmarks, such as Word, Excel, email, web browsing, IM, compiling, web site editting, installing (still) even a little SimCity4. 165m34.780s...

I always tell everybody to stick a couple of hundred on the sticker price to add more memory. When I purchased my G5, I actually put that in the budget. This is probably why I shy away from the more "powerful" computers. The $difference between the dual-2.0 and the 1.6 was a 1GByte RAM...

I don't think Apple'll do anything that drastic. They'll probably decide with their pocketbooks. By the time Motorola updates every important line to 90nm so they can produce 1.6GHz 7457's, everybody else will be able to put out their CPUs at 90nm also. And what will a 90nm 970 be like...

The only thing the G3 had in it that came close to the internal drive on my G5 is the 36GByte 10K RPM SCSI using an ATTO U160 card had almost as good a Xbench score in the G3 as my G5 drive. I think I'm going to repackage the 36G into an external case and run it on my G5.

Dealing with minors is a different law set altogether. All I know is RIAA better handle this one with kid gloves.

Also glad to see they now have a single memory architecture. Who wants to bet the iMacs get a refresh come January, especially after they get better supplies of 7457s? This happened to the iBook line once when it was introduced in October and refreshed in January. According to an interview...

Maybe the developers should target Beige owners who can run Jaguar, but have been locked out of Panther.

Where are the 7457s? Well for one, as stated in their press release, Motorola intended they start production runs in the Oct. - Dec. 2003. This translates to new PowerBooks and iMacs using this chip appearing in November, at the earliest, unless they've managed to get a few thousand during the...

So far my 1.6GHz G5 has surpassed my expectations. And it can only get better when Panther and everything else catches up to it. Even in the classic mode it runs everything I have and boots classic in 9 seconds. And playing with recompiles the G5 is many, many times faster than my old...

If anybody has a chance to leap-frog the industry, its IBM. Everybody is now retooling to 90nm process, which is why Motorola is having problems producing 7457 in quantity. Their main plant for producing PowerPCs, MOS-13, at the Ed Bluestein campus (Austin TX) is undergoing retrofit now. But...

Boy, I'd love to be wrong. I'd really like to be on the wrong end of maybe a 1.5 GHz G3 upgrade. I do know the G3 probably won't get as much R&D as the G5 is currently getting and IBM's pursuit of a faster G3 for practically their single biggest customer may actually turn up the heat....a...