“Wednesday, IBM will be holding its POWER/PowerPC processor event — and if these rumors prove true — we could hear from Apple shortly thereafter,” MacOS Rumors reports.
“If so, the news might be PowerMacs that will adopt the POWER5-based PowerPC 975 processor as Apple’s ‘G6,’ fulfilling Steve’s 3GHz promise and paving the way for G5 (970FX)-based Powerbooks/iMacs,” MOSR reports.
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Let me be the first to say (FIRST POST!) BS.
MacOSRumors? Then this rumor is absolutely, without a doubt, completely, and utterly NOT true.
It would explain 3 GHz for the Power Mac and also kill off the G4. G5 iMac, iBook, and PowerBooks would sell like hotcakes. Power Mac G6 would HURT the competition. Intel has to be hating life, even as they fleece the ignorant.
I’ll visit MacOSRumors sometimes, just as food for thought. But if you want rumors with a truly good TRACK RECORD of judging what’s reliable info and what’s “out there”… I recommend http://MacRumors.com (followed by ThinkSecret.com and then maybe AppleInsider.com, time will tell.)
Meanwhile, wild overly-optimistic rumors just make (some) people irrationally angry at Apple when those rumors turn to be ONLY rumors. Like all the people who seemed ready to embrace Windows because Apple doesn’t have a $99 iPod yet as “promised”–by rumor sites.
Speculatation is fun, but I hope that having these rumors repeated on a “news” site does not turn them into LIKELY rumors in peoples’ minds. That would be a shame.
As I said yesterday (RUMOR: Apple to release new PowerBook G4s this week) and none of you believed me:
“hee hee hah hah hee hee! i got no new products but the rumor mill is going faster than a g6 running OSX 11!!!!”
I let it slip about the new g6 yesterday – weren�t you all paying attention???
Only Stevie Jay know da TRUTH!
I have coded this next newsbit for you all to figure out:
“No Envelope Wait….I Maybe Albeit Cheese…Salmon Oh Oh Nimble!!!”
Go to it codebreakers, that is the next hot news from apple!
Sez the 1 and only Stevie Jay
I want to hear more rumors AppleWorks 7!
G6… are they insane. They are not about to release it as a G6, but skipping a 2.5 ghz G5 and going right to 3 ghz G5 is feasible.
Hey Nagromme,
don’t blame the rumor-mill for coming up with stuff. blame apple. it would be nice if they give some kind of roadmap on their products. plus the fact that we have been waiting so darn long for some product updates is driving us up the wall. the last few weeks have been so slow with no real Apple/Mac news. I for one am sick of iPod mini or otherwise news updates/tidbits/critique. it has been done and redone. enough already. How about some real products now Apple? (i’ll settle for a preview).
Also, Apple has said the G4 is here to stay. It’s our Celoron. Expect G4s in iBooks, and probably low-end desktops, for a long while to come. (And probably priced pretty nicely now that G4s aren’t the high-end.)
Apple isn’t going to “preview” anything right now because they don’t want Mac sales to completely die for the period between now and when new systems come out. They are running a business afterall people and that would be the stupidest thing they could do. The rumor sites (yes all of them) are full of crap too. Apple will release updates when they are good and ready to, no matter what any stupid rumor site or anyone else says.
I don’t blame the rumor mill for seeking previews of what’s to come–I gladly participate! Promotion of certain rumors as likely when they just aren’t true is something to be avoided. This G6 thing sounds like a case of that.
As for Apple keeping their plans secret… sure, I’d like to know everything ahead of time in detail, but no company releases everything about their plans. It’s Apple’s right to choose what’s best to release. And just think of noise some would make if Apple DID release a thorough and scheduled roadmap… and then, as would happen to any company, some of those plans didn’t come through at the expected time.
I sometimes think there are only about 5 or 6 guys that post on this site and they just use different names. And they’re probably in the same high school!
Just a thought…
To mac user 47: No there are only two…you and me.
“but no company releases everything about their plans”-Nagromme
I’d add that if they do, they’re probably over-hyping or just trying to scare the competition or just testing the water, or other reasons I can’t think of.
OK. i give them the benefit of the doubt. but given the extenced hardware drought we are in they could make an exception. not counting the iPod mini and the so call iMac 20′ update it has been since last May since we have had a hardware update. My guess is Apple is experiencing difficulty integrating their new chips G4/G5/G6. plus with the recent rash of hardware problems they encountered with their ibook, i ‘m hoping (gosh i’m really hoping) that they are taking extra measures in testing their products prior to release. but this extended no-news period is driving me crazy. I don’t ever remember MDN posting a MacOSrumor(given their track record) before. Is this what it comes down to? like i said, Apple is not helping. i happen to believe that if you tease them you keep them around. this quarter is going to be a terrible one for Apple. ipods not enough to carry them.
The problem Apple currently has is far too compressed a product line due to Motorola freezing processor development in amber for two years.
Apple wants to have a pro tower line running a superior architecture to anything else it has, a professional portable and high end personal machine in the middle, and below that a consumer/educational desktop machne and a consumer/educational portable. Right now the divisions between the products are far, far too close, with Apple having to arbitrarily cripple machines to prevent them from intruding on the next tier–example, no DVD writers on the iBooks, to prevent them from eating any more into 12″ Powerbook sales, and no firewire 800 and a crappy graphics card to prevent the 20″ iMac from eating into Powermac sales.
I have absolutely no idea that G6 plans will announced–the rumors coming out the past couple of weeks have been so disappointing it wouldn’t shock me if Apple announced it was going to be using the G4 in portables for the next 12 months or more–but it is in Apple’s interest to get a G6–or something it can call a G6–out there on the market as soon as possible, so the pro portables and high end personal machines can move to the G5 without stepping on the top of the line pro towers.
I agree that the rumor looks like bullshit more than anything else as far as happening now, but what the rumor states is how things will go down at some point. The question is when that will happen. What you will eventually have is:
G4 ibooks and emacs
G5 powerbooks and imacs
G6 powermacs
That would give Apple the split product line it needs, and has to be what Apple has been working towards.
no iBox or iTablet, or video iPod?
I dont think that it is any secret that Apple are working with IBM on the next rev chip (AKA G6). The secret is when it will be released. The smart money says not for a while. MacOS Rumours is not a rumour site – it is an online tabloid that just makes stuff up to get page hits.
p.s. what is wrong with the old G4? I have the 1gig TiBook and it rocks! I do not feel it is lacking in any way – would be nice to have a bigger keyboard but otherwise its great!
Slow news day…
i’m going back to my iPod.
It’s no secret that IBM is working on nanotechnology to make their chips smaller and thus use less power (run cooler) and capable of higher clock speeds. It will be the exact same chip, just faster and cooler. This will be the same G5 chip, but now apple can put them in Powerbooks and make quad-CPU server (4 x 3Ghz, 64-bit, CPU!).
By doing so, this will fill the gap normally expected for a new generation CPU. You can expect quad Powerbooks and single G5s in iMacs. In addition, by creating smaller quad systems with existing CPUs, they will not have the cost of “break through” R&D, as well as not requiring all new OS programming. Both are great cost savings.
Expect small steps from Apple and IBM, but these steps will still be far beyond what any MS platform can offer.
Who needs rumors when reality is much more interesting?
What you’re me?
Err no I think I’m me too…
Really where do you come off being me?
Now I know I’ve been arguing with myself…
I always loose in these arguemnts… that great guy always wins.
Me!
Frikin’ looser!
so something that can be done in .001 second will be done in .00001 second?
“I want to hear more rumors AppleWorks 7!” yes yes yes
I am just guessing because I haven’t seen any G4/P4M performance comparisons, but I imagine that the “lowly” G4 is still a decent performer for mobile applications, particularly in battery-powered mode. I don’t recall the exact numbers, but an Ars Technica article on a Dell laptop showed significant performance hits to a P4M in battery mode relative to AC mode.
Granted, a moderate clock speed G5 (or G6!) — say 1.2 to 1.4GHz — should handily beat the G4. But it is still a good CPU and has benefited from performance improvements in MacOS X. The writing is on the wall, though…eventually MacOS X will be optimized for the G5 and beyond.
As I understood the CPU discussions, RUGAA2, the G6 was going to be/is/will be based on the Power5 and will not be just a faster and cooler version of the current CPU. As I recall, the G6 is projected to be about 40% faster than the G5 at the same clock speed.