Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #26
"Oh, and one more thing.... There is no 'one more thing'."
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Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #27
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Originally posted by DrBoar:
With IBMs production of 90 nm G5 fitting the need of xServers (and presumably IBMs own Linux blade servers with IBM 970), it appears …
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #28
I develop software on a Beige G3 upgraded to 466Mhz... Do you think I need a new machine? With student loans between myself and my wife, a new computer is a ways off... I think…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #29
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Originally posted by djohnson:
I develop software on a Beige G3 upgraded to 466Mhz... Do you think I need a new machine? With student loans between myself and …
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #30
I can dream right??? Well we will still wait until at least dual 3Ghz comes out. Who here can see Steve introing a dual 3.2Ghz instead of 3Ghz?
Beige G3's are the best Mac ever…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #31
Are you using OS X? I'd rip my hair out with a G3 466. Actually I'd rip my hair out with any OS 9 machine too.
Time to upgrade... Debt be damned.
Actually a dual 1.8 (or whateve…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #32
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Originally posted by djohnson:
I develop software on a Beige G3 upgraded to 466Mhz... Do you think I need a new machine?
Yes, I upgraded from that machine …
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #33
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As for the migration of the 90 nm chips to the PowerMacs, it should actually be pretty easy so long as manufacturing has ramped up. If you can have a 2 GHz G5 in …
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #34
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Originally posted by -Q-:
Yes, I upgraded from that machine exactly and I absolutely love the power and speed. As Eug said, 'debt be damned.'
Yeah, my G4/4…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #35
Of course I am running and programming under 10.2.8! The speed is slow, I spend more time compiling then coding but oh well... It will make a new computer feel so much faster!!!…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #36
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Originally posted by djohnson:
I develop software on a Beige G3 upgraded to 466Mhz... Do you think I need a new machine? ...
Okay, I said i was too embarra…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #37
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Originally posted by Hinson
II'm running OS X on a Beige 266. I think it's the oldest Mac you can actually run X on.
I have two Macs right now, both run…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #38
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Originally posted by The Ancient One:
After some reflection, I wonder if Apple will mark the 20th anniversary of the Mac on January 24th with an announcement. If …
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #39
To be truthful, I have added USB, better cideo card, 384MB ram, 40GB HD, new mouse, CDRW. So it is a little better then stock. The program I am attempting to get running takes ab…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #40
How can anyone complain that there were no Powermac speedbumps at MWSF when no one was even expecting them? Save for appleinsider, which has no credibility then or now.
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #41
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Originally posted by superfula:
How can anyone complain that there were no Powermac speedbumps at MWSF when no one was even expecting them? Save for appleinsider…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #42
Ahh they will come soon enough. I am now wanting a really fast laptop too Give it about a month and I bet we will know something. BTW I still say dual 3Ghz
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #43
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Originally posted by Eug:
Because it has been over 6 months since the last Power Mac G5 announcement (notwithstanding the dual 1.8 announcement).
And....??
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Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #44
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Originally posted by superfula
There hasn't been a powermac announcement at MWSF in 3 years. I see no reason why things would change. Apple has had the same rel…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #45
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Originally posted by WizOSX:
What is that schedule?
Well, most of the of the winter Power Mac announcements in the last three years have actually been in Febr…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #46
I've been lurking around here and have been reading up on the hopefully soon-to-be updated G5 Towers & I think the new G5 Towers are due anytime now escp. w/ the G5 at 90nm. I…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #47
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Originally posted by Eug:
Why not? Things change all the time, and this is especially true with Apple's announcements lately. (eg. Xserve announcement at MWSF for…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #48
OK, so here's THE schedule:
Announcement date......Machine(s)
Jun. 23, 2003...............G5s
Jan. 28, 2003...............1.42 Dual MDD
Aug. 13, 2002...............1.00, 1.25, 867…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #49
Some intriguing numbers:
IBM's SPEC scores for the 1.8 GHz G5:
fp: 1051
int: 937
transistors: 58 million
die size: 121 mm2
Extrapolating to 2.4 GHz:
fp: 1401
int: 1249
transistor…
Official "There were no new G5 PowerMacs at MWSF 2004!" complaint thread — #50
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Originally posted by Eug:
P.S. Which date in January is the most likely? An ad campaign around Super Bowl 2004 (early Feb.) would suffice though.
Heh, I l…