[X4U] new Power Mac G5s!

[Neil]

Does anybody still remember the post from last year I'm quoting below?  Many
of you at the time called it a pure fabrication, but that fact is now
obvious.  If Jobs had a 3.2Ghz chip  back then, we would have seen it by
now.

on 6/9/04 7:19 PM, Ishan Bhattacharya wrote:

> Think about it logically, after seeing today's introductions of new
> Powermacs. The only "new" unit is the dual 2.5 GHz and it includes water
> cooling and multiple fans which far exceed the need for cooling the 970fx x
> 2 chips installed. Other features, including the lack of a high-end video
> card, approriate PCI slots, a small single "slow" HD (for professional
> videographers and the like) all indicate that this 2.5 Ghz  Powermac was
> designed to accommodate another chip, i.e., the 975.
> 
> At WWDC, Jobs will introduce a 3.2 GHz dual PowerMac using the 975 chip
> which is being produced with reasonable yields at IBM's Fishkill plant. This
> model will have a $1000 price premium for educational pricing alone and will
> be actually available, i.e., delivered to customers after September 1. In
> addition, Jobs will indicate that a quad processor variant (with an
> astronomically high price tag) is under development and will be available
> within a year. The 975   chip in limited amounts has scaled up to 4+ Ghz
> although reliability/endurance testing is not complete as of today.
> 
> In summary, today's release was scheduled for January, but due to fab
> problems, an insufficient supply of 2.5 Ghz chips was available and even
> now, it somewhat constrained. The mistakes make in the design of this chip
> were rectified early on in the design of the 975 chip-the development of
> these two chips were in parallel but not entirely synchronous.
> 
> The current 2.5 GHz dual unit is a good value, but Apple is not investing
> much in advertising or offering "the best" in hardware (hard drives, video
> cards, memory, etc), all of which is reserved for the 975 dual 3.2 GHz unit.
> In preliminary testing, this unit using all of the various Photoshop
> filters/actions (not just the select few which favor  the 970 series vs. the
> P4) performs at least twice as fast as the highest-end units available from
> large vendors.
> 
> I have several 2.0 Ghz units and have ordered several 2.5 Ghz machines (but
> I get a huge discount :). However, I will cancel these orders when the WWDC
> announcement is made and get the 3.2 dual Ghz machines. I think the quad
> machines are going to be beyond my budget i.e., will exceed $7000 for the
> base machines for education store customers.
> 
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> full according to your discretion.
> 
> Have a good evening.