PowerMac G5s - on or around Jan 20th?

sounds about right--hopefully it's true
probably won't ship til march :P

The original Mac was released on the 24th right? So, why not release a new Mac on the 24th of this year? If you're gonna have a birthday have it on the right date. OK, so the 24th is a Saturday, then the 26th.

I think the "year of the Mac" will run out like this:

in the next 3-4 months we'll see new consumer Mac updates or redesigns.

Sometime in the summer we'll be seeing the PowerMac edge up to the promised 3GHz.

Before the end of the year we'll see G5s in Powerbooks.

And before Christmas we'll see the iPod mini drop in price.

This seems terribly easy to believe and I know its very broadly stated but I think the best way to keep eyes on Apple for the 20th year is to not rest on one's laurels. If Apple keeps up a steady stream of new product announcements then everyone will be turning to Apple every other month or so.

You don't celebrate a big anniversary in one swift punch on one date. You drag it out and make the entire year a veritable party.

I hope so, I can't wait to see what kind of bump they get :D

I just read this article briefly highlighting whats coming from AMD and Intel this year. Does anyone know how these chips will stack up against IBM's development plans for the 970 & 980?


http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmemory/0,39024015,39118905,00.htm

After a year that saw only a few desktop processor cores from Intel (Northwood and repackaged Gallatin) and AMD (Thoroughbred B, Barton, Sledgehammer and Clawhammer), 2004 looks set to be a busy year. For the moment, AMD has shrugged off its underdog status with its sensational Hammer cores (Athlon 64 and FX-51). To continue the momentum, AMD will be launching four new cores this year. These differ in terms of L2 (Level 2) cache sizes, different memory controllers (single and dual channel) and, of course, clock speeds.

Don't count Intel out yet, though. The chip giant's overdue Prescott will make an appearance early this quarter. Prescott will see its life covered by two generations of Intel chipsets and motherboards. It will originally begin life as a Socket 478 CPU supported by the current Springdale (i865) and Canterwood (i875) chipsets, and graduate to Socket 775 (also called Socket T) with the Grantsdale (successor to the i865) and Alderwood (successor to the i875) chipsets.

Towards the end of the year, Intel will also introduce its future core, Tejas. Rumour has it that Tejas will have a larger L1 (Level 1) cache size, more integral hyper-threading support, multiple cores and -- surprise, surprise -- 64-bit x86 instructions. In addition, Intel has pledged to continue its Extreme Edition line, so we can probably expect modified Prescott and Tejas cores as well.

Jason

Originally posted by j_maddison
I just read this article briefly highlighting whats coming from AMD and Intel this year. Does anyone know how these chips will stack up against IBM's development plans for the 970 & 980?

Jason

I think that the PPC 980 will blow everything out of the water. My Dual G5 already blows everything on its way ( I cant even imagine what more cache and more altivec units will do! :D ). Im pretty anxious to see it coming out!

It's a G5 Mini and it will cost $100. :D

Originally posted by stingerman
It's a G5 Mini and it will cost $100. :D

With apples current [ricing sceme, a g5 mini would have a clockspeed of 1.2 ghz and a price of $1,600

apple would at the same time anounce a normal g5 with starting speeds at 2.2 ghz for $1,800

:(

seriosly i hope this comes out to be true. If it does coincide with the 24th exectly it will have to be soemthing big. Bring it on apple!

I would no be surprised of any product released on Jan 24th.

Good to get faster powermacs.
However,
I hope we will see the g5 in the powerbook before the 4th quarter.

The 24th is a Saturday - that's not good business policy to do a release on a weekend.

The timeframe makes sense. Let's just watch the "ship-time" on the Apple website in the next two weeks. Seems to be the best indicator.