The analysts are weighing in on the expected incusion of PowerPC 970 CPUs in Apple’s upcoming Power Macintosh G5 line. Some analysts’ takes on Power Mac G5 are breathtaking. Breathtakingly stupid:
“Although it’s a new processor, I’d expect to see less brandishing around the processor and more around the features and packages that the systems come in,” Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds told NewsFactor Network. “I expect to see more about the Mac than I do about the processors.”
“The challenge that Apple has had is that they’ve occasionally pulled past Intel on pure speed — I think those days are behind us now,” Reynolds told NewsFactor. “I don’t think we’ll see them crowing about raw performance; instead, they’re more likely to stick with Apple’s core values where they have a real advantage in terms of usability.”
Although these specifications enable the Macintosh to be on par with leading-edge Windows boxes, Reynolds told NewsFactor that “this won’t affect their market; they’re really a niche player now.”
“In light of Intel’s upcoming launch of its Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, IDC analyst Alan Promisel noted, Apple might benefit by moving its architecture to the Pentium side. ‘And Apple has been looking at it,’ he told NewsFactor,” full article here.
“I think it is a big morale booster for the Mac user base to see a brand-new next-generation platform,” IDC analyst Roger Kay told CNET News.com. “It gives them confidence that there are still some legs to the Mac platform.” If you’ve just eaten, wait a bit before tackling this one. Full mess here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’re speechless – except to say that if you know anything about the 970’s performance, the personal computer world is in for quite a surprise come Monday.
These people are clueless. “Intel’s upcoming launch of its Pentium 4 with hyperthreading”? The first product was announced in November 2002. As for moving the Mac to Intel, this is a stupid idea that won’t die. If migrating apps to OS X was hard, imagine migrating them to a whole new processor architecture with opposite byte ordering and all kinds of technical challenges like do you define a new PC architecture, or try to run on the “standard” platform which is so nonstandard that even MS battles to bring out new OS releases. And doing this when the Intel world is in a state of confusion as to which way to go for 64-bit when PPC has a nice solution ready… Also consider that IBM’s estimated SPEC INT and SPEC FP numbers for a 1.8GHz PPC 970 are about in the ballpark of a similar-speed Athlon and 3GHz P4. So it will be interesting to see how this stacks up in real-world comparisons.
i think im gonna be sick………….
Hey Dave, welcome to the real world.
You’ll now note that the machine as described is officially in the mainstream.
Perhaps you should simply shut that hole you stick cake in and deal with the fact that some people might be a bit more “in the know” than you.
Peace and a dual G5 be with you.