ISSCC 2004: IBM on PowerPC 970FX

Is it not wonderful when so much is in the pipeline. Soon we will be inundated by new products and our choices will be limitless

Powermac updates here we come! What's the bets on early March?:p

Originally posted by ph8te
Is it not wonderful when so much is in the pipeline. Soon we will be inundated by new products and our choices will be limitless

Limitless? What are you talking about here? There's always something better coming along...

Its great that the 2.5 GHz uses less W than the previous version....makes you wonder if they could get even more out of it and keep the watts the same :D

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good point - they've already made a rather incredible cooling system, so why worry so much about the wattage (heat dissipation) and worry more about sheer speed.

well it said wednesday they will talk about powertune.... it's possible the Xserve chips are the chips capable of 2.5GHz but have been throttled down to 2.0GHz for heat reasons. that is if the rumors are true about powertune.....
*if* that's true, then new powermacs would just need a sufficient supply of these chips, and for the timing to be right for a release (low enough stock of the current models and whatnot). There were a lot of assumptions that the G5 case was able to cool a chip running much hotter than the 970/G5 currently in there.

Well it might not be the update that I want (PM!!!) but at least that frickin' awful iTunes/Pepsi front page has been replaced.

mmmmm.... power mac upgrades... :drool:

:D

Looking at the article in question reference is made to apple releasing one updated powermac with the new 2.5 GHz chip. If this is the case then the G5 powermac lineup will not change much short of one speed bump and some price reductions on the dual 2.0 and 1.8 GHz. Perhaps even deleting the dual 1.8 and keeping the 1.6 so as to have more even gaps between the speeds! Perhaps this is the reason why the dual 1.8 was released late ’03 – to diminish current stocks? Just a thought.

This week will be the week of the mini iPod (and probably next week, as well). This should clear the decks for some updates or new product introductions.

This year has been incredibly disappointing so far. First, no desktop or laptop introductions at MWSF (in retrospect, the XServe news was important, however). A new iLife at MWSF, but it turns out that both iMovie 4 and iDVD 4 are disasters (I'm glad to see GarageBand looks great). Nothing at the Super Bowl except a poorly executed Pepsi campaign. Has the Apple marketing team taken the first quarter off?

I like what I'm hearing from IBM -- but I wonder, why the slow pace of updates? Is Apple locked into a contract with Motorola that they can't get out of?

I'm also concerned about the state of Apple software introductions. All I'm hearing is bad news concerning new software: QuickTime 6.5 is withdrawn (for G5 users), iMovie & iDVD suck, and 10.3.3 is withdrawn because it makes 20" iMacs blow up (OK, I made that last part up).

Let's hope March is better.

Originally posted by phonic pol
Looking at the article in question reference is made to apple releasing one updated powermac with the new 2.5 GHz chip. If this is the case then the G5 powermac lineup will not change much short of one speed bump and some price reductions on the dual 2.0 and 1.8 GHz. Perhaps even deleting the dual 1.8 and keeping the 1.6 so as to have more even gaps between the speeds! Perhaps this is the reason why the dual 1.8 was released late ’03 – to diminish current stocks? Just a thought.

I think you might be overreading the article. "Expected" in this case probably refers to the fact that we're all expecting the 90 nm chips in new G5s. I doubt the writer has any inside information about how or when those chips will show up.