[MacDV] Re: MAC OS X Panther?

[Thubten Kunga]

Hey Matt,
You can stay in Jaguar for the rest of your life if you like. I like to 
keep moving up the newest food chain when it comes to the OS. But as 
far as hardware goes, I've been on a 500 MHz Cube for the past 2 years 
and I'm just graduating to the dual 867 now — and then only for heavy 
duty work.

But the IBM-970 Macs (I guess you could say they are G5, although they 
are not coming from Motorola) are going to be radically faster than 
what we've had to date due to their 64-bit wide pipe (twice as wide as 
now) and 900 MHz frontside bus (seven times as fast as now). So that 
puts more pressure on our wannabe glands to make the leap sooner than 
later. But that's just my opinion of pent up desire for much faster 
Macs. That may not be the case for many Mac owners including yourself. 
; ^ )

k

On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 09:59  AM, Matthew Guemple wrote:

> Ok this freaks me out... is the "970" essentially the G5? Meaning I 
> will have to plunk a bunch of money down for a new machine and 
> software upgrades?
>
> After all the hassle I've gone through in the past 6 months getting my 
> machine nicely settled into 10.2, PLEASE don't tell me it's all for 
> nought.
>
> grrrr....
> M
>
> On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 04:50 AM, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>
>> September. 64-bit bandwidth for IBM 970 Macs. iLife updates are 
>> likely, but not necessarily at the time Panther ships. A lot will be 
>> revealed during the Jobs keynote at the Worldwide Developer's 
>> Conference in San Francisco late June. There's a small chance Panther 
>> will be ready by August. But history says we'll be lucky to get it 
>> and the 970 Macs it runs on by Seybold SF in September.
>>
>> k
>>
>> On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 04:54  PM, Dennis A. Amith wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed the MAC OS X "Panther" posted on several Mac Websites...is 
>>> there
>>> another new OS (10.3?) to purchase this coming Summer?  I wonder if 
>>> this
>>> will provide an updated version of imovie or Quicktime?