MWNY PowerMac Specs?

An anonymous source provided the following specs for upcoming PowerMac G4's upcoming... presumably at MWNY.

1.0 GHz, 1.2 GHz, and dual-1.4 GHz G4's
DDR 333 MHZ
ATA 133 support
4 64 bit PCI
1 AGP
Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire, USB
60, 80, and 120 GB drives
New Superdrive, and faster CDRW.
Built-in Bluetooth
$1599, $2299, and $3299.

These certainly sound like reasonable specs for future machines... again, the upcoming Servers (May 14) specs may help confirm/deny some of these specs.

That most definitely sounds more realistic than a 2ghz G5 and stuff

i like it :)

What about Firewire 2 + USB 2?

Originally posted by Falleron
What about Firewire 2 + USB 2?

I think we can be reasonably sure USB2 will be standard... as for Firewire2, we can only hope...

These do sound like much better specs. I wonder how zippy the dual 1.4s would really feel... prolly an improvement over a 500MHz iMac, eh?

hehe
:)
pnw

We wont see USB2 until Firewire 2 is out! I have a Dual 1Ghz machine + it runs very nicely! A Dual 1.4Ghz would be sweet (Not for me because I just got my machine 3 months ago!!).

The rumor is conservative enough to be true. Nothing really new other than the DDR Ram.

40% increase in processor speed in five months aint bad. Hopefully this will mean 2 ghz G5s by MWSF.

If Bluetooth is built-in, could the wireless mouse and keyboard rumors be true too?

Sunday, March 17 3:17 PM EDT

Faster Superdrives later this year? According to several very interesting documents emailed to us by an international Apple source, yes. The current model Swiss Army Knife of optical drives runs at 6x read/2x write for DVDs and 24x read, 8x CD-R write and 4x CD-RW write. A new version currently being tested at Apple would up virtually all of those speeds - 8X/4X for DVDs and 40X/12X/8X for CDs, respectively. Of course as with all CD drives claiming 40X speeds, real-world performance will be much lower, but it should still be significantly improved over the current 24X speed. If the timeline put forth in these documents proves accurate, we may see this new SuperDrive before the end of the year - in PowerMacs first, of course.

Still longing for more processor performance from the latest PowerMacs before you buy one? Well, if a Dual 1GHz model with 133MHz SDRAM doesn't impress you, how about a Dual 1.4GHz beast employing powerful new PowerPC 7500 processors and screamingly fast 400MHz RapidIO-compatible memory? It has taken months of digging to confirm this, but it looks like the much-hyped PPC 7500, a G4 designed to add some of the features of the G5 family, will be the centerpiece of Apple's mid-year PowerMac update. A 400MHz leap in processor clock is dramatic, but made possible by the 7500's deeper command pipelines, next-generation wiring process and modernized chip architecture. Much more on this rumor in the days and weeks ahead.

New information from one of Apple's key component suppliers suggests the company is working on a mid-sized widescreen flat panel. The new display would be roughly the same height as the company's current 17-inch model, but would be significantly wider to provide a letterbox aspect ratio for watching widescreen DVDs. It is not known whether this would replace or complement the existing standard-aspect 17-inch Studio Display, but resolution is said to be 1152x768 -- same as the Powerbook G4.

thank you macosrumors

but i guess more speculation can't hurt, go apple

Why do you all want USB2?
USB2 is not faster than FireWire and there is no hardware, that may be a reason to have it.
Also the HD-bridge is slow as these old bridges for FW.
So why?

well having USB 2 and Firewire 2 standard will be good for the long haul when we get new USB 2 devices and faster external firewire 2 hard drives, so i really hope they put them in.

also is the new super drive going to be the one that macosrumors.com specified or something else.

hmmm and what about the video card are we going to have the 128MB Nvidia card or something else?

What would the effective speed difference be between a dual 1 GHz and single 1.2 GHz machine with DDR ram?

I'm told OSX is *extremely* snappy with dual processor configurations, and the older dual GHz model's price is probably going to drop down significantly...so I'm wondering just how nice that ram really is...