[P1] Price drop could mean new revisions coming?

[Joe Jones]

On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 01:15 America/Chicago, Charles Martin 
wrote:
>
> The current iBook is the last Apple product to use the G3 chip, and 
> even though that's been an impressive performer, it's just clearly not 
> going in the direction (or at the speeds) Apple is.

I'm almost certain that IBM has ramped the G3 up way past 1Ghz, but 
Apple have been keeping the speeds down since it would be a bit of an 
embarrassment to have the G3 clocked higher than their "pro" chip, 
since Motorola has been dragging its feet with the development of the 
G4.

I think there's plenty of life left in the G3 yet - for all intents and 
purposes it's a G4 without the Altivec units bolted on. For tasks that 
are not optimised for vector processing, the G3 and G4 can run shoulder 
to shoulder at the same clock speed (depending on cache available to 
the CPU).

Joe
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