PPC 970 PowerMac in May?
- A well-informed source told us that the first PPC 970 single processors at 1.4 GHZ have left Hon Hai?s assembly lines. This is excellent news because they will be available much earlier than envisaged at the start. The single processor will be in stock and sold at the end of May, whereas the top-of-the-line [chip] will arrive mid-June, right before WWDC.
The only downside: the machines will be furnished with OSX, but not optimized with 64 bits. With every purchase of such a machine, Mac OSX 10.3 will be offered when it is ready in September. In this state, unless Apple opposes it, we will reveal the benchmarks of the machine on May 15th at the latest.
[ MJ ] Apple US is offering an exceptional 30% employee rebate on pro G4 models. This is the first sign of the demise of the [G4] computer. Note that the 17? iMacs are also part of Apple?s promo
Update: An addendum indicates that due to a mistake in interpretation, the 970 will be on sale after WWDC... not as early as May as indicated.
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http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2003-05-02#5414
note there are two articles... intersted in both.
new emac design
ichat with videoconferencing
970 in june.
Originally posted by arn
Can someone provide a [b]human translation:
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2003-05-02#5414
note there are two articles... intersted in both. [/B]
Why human? Basically, both my brain and Babelfish came up with the same things... give or take some sentence structure here and there... ;)
Originally posted by arn
there's always some things that don't make it into the autotranslation
Yeah true, but for the most part Babel is very good.
A well-informed source told us that the first PPC 970 single processors at 1,4 GHz left production of Hon Hai. That’s excellent news because they will be available much earlier as expected (not sure on this part). The single processors will be on stock and for sale at the end of may, then the higher models (again not sure) will arrive in the middle of june, just before WWDC.
Seul bémol (?). These machines will be furnished with Mac OS X 10.2 which is not 64 bits optimized. For each purchase of one of these machines, Mac OS X 10.3 will be offered at its introduction in september. With these conditions, at least if Apple not opposes, we will have benchmarks of this machine not later than May, 15th.
(Not sure about the next, but I think means Apple employees get 30% off of G4 Pro, which indicates that this will be the end of those machines.)
HTH,
Veldek
[Rumor] The PPC 970 in advance! [ MàJ ] - Lionel - 17:23:32
A well-informed source told us that the first PPC 970 single processors at 1.4 GHZ have left Hon Hai’s assembly lines. This is excellent news because they will be available much earlier than envisaged at the start. The single processor will be in stock and sold at the end of May, whereas the top-of-the-line [chip] will arrive mid-June, right before WWDC.
The only downside: the machines will be furnished with OSX, but not optimized with 64 bits. With every purchase of such a machine, Mac OSX 10.3 will be offered when it is ready in September. In this state, unless Apple opposes it, we will reveal the benchmarks of the machine on May 15th at the latest.
[ MàJ ] Apple US is offering an exceptional 30% employee rebate on pro G4 models. This is the first sign of the demise of the [G4] computer. Note that the 17” iMacs are also part of Apple’s promo.
Originally posted by dorleac
Apple US is offering an exceptional 30% employee rebate on pro G4 models. This is the first sign of the demise of the [G4] computer. Note that the 17? iMacs are also part of Apple?s promo.
I think this might be the biggest bit of news here. Imagine offering single 970s in the iMacs and duals in the PowerMacs. Wow!
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Originally posted by dukestreet
I think this might be the biggest bit of news here. Imagine offering single 970s in the iMacs and duals in the PowerMacs.
Come to think of it, look at the Apple Store right now in the refurb section and you will see almost everything in their entire G4 line is being sold as refurb. Maybe they are doing that because they know the machines will go faster that way, even though they are new machines. Those that aren't smart enough to check the refurbished machines and are going to buy now can just pay full price, but the refurb prices might make those that are sitting on the fence jump over and buy.
Smart marketing, Apple!
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