NEW G5! MAYBE?

[l ! l Ross]

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=474

Could it be?


Full size here: http://images.appleinsider.com/images/90nmG5Service.jpg

Look at the size of that heat sink!

[crypt]

When I saw the name of your thread, I thought they came out, but this looks really amazing.

[.vooDoo.]

Looks like a single processor machine to me. the old manuall is obviously a single processor since its only got the on G5 mark on it. But the other one has a huge heat sink with a single G5 mark on it. 4ghz G5's? lol

[l ! l Ross]

Yea I was thinking it might only be a single.

But maybe there going for a unified design.

It only has 4 ram slots so I guess its the low end machine. But you can't really tell from this. Only time will tell.

[.vooDoo.]

Looks like there is some truth behind this "rumor" Apple as asked AppleInsider to remove the picture with legal talk. http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=474

[.vooDoo.]

ThinkSecret has released a new articale stating they have someone inside the Apple Exec's that says Apple will be releasing a 2.6ghz machine tomorrow.

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/g5refresh.html

[c| Lone-Wolf]

*crosses fingers*

[crypt]

We can only hope, voods.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

Well, I was planning on buying the next fastest G5 that they release, but if 2.6GHz is gonna be the tops, then I think I'm gonna wait until Apple comes out with a G5 that breaks the 3.0GHz barrier.  Shouldn't take too long....I would assume they will break 3.0GHz by the end of the year.  Wow, this might be the longest I've ever waited between macs!  Guess I should go out and buy one of those utility programs like Norton Utilities or TechTool Pro so I can defrag my hard drive and check for disk errors (a problem I don't normally have seeing as I only keep my macs for about 6 months before trading up).

[crypt]

Wow, this might be the longest I've ever waited between macs!

You get a new Mac every year, and if I remember correctly, didn't you upgrade to G5 from a 600 or so MHz G3 iMac? I think that's pretty old. More than a year before G5's came out at least.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

Wow, this might be the longest I've ever waited between macs!

You get a new Mac every year, and if I remember correctly, didn't you upgrade to G5 from a 600 or so MHz G3 iMac? I think that's pretty old. More than a year before G5's came out at least.

No, you are thinking of when that iMac came out, not when it was still being sold.  I bought the 600MHz Graphite iMac right at 6 months before I bought my G5 (those old-style iMacs were still being sold new up until a few months ago).

[crypt]

Ah, I thought you always bought new. Thanks for clarifying.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

Ah, I thought you always bought new. Thanks for clarifying.

It was new.  Apple was still producing them until very recently.

[crypt]

Lol, you wouldn't even let me thank you for clarifying.

On another note, Apple Legal has removed that image of the Unified design of the G5 (quad or so). Maybe we can assume that's what it'll be.

[Ace]

Lol, you wouldn't even let me thank you for clarifying.

On another note, Apple Legal has removed that image of the Unified design of the G5 (quad or so). Maybe we can assume that's what it'll be.

Apple legal gets every image removed, right or wrong. It means nothing.

[l ! l Ross]

They say its been put back by a day. I bet they will say that tommorw if its not released then.

They also say its going to be 2.5Ghz now and the same graphic cards

[BFG]

Not exactly what i hear here!
New graphics cards... and possibly as high as 2.6Ghz!!  

[Cobra]

New graphics cards...

Muh?!!  Where?!

I slightly doubt the accuracy of this G5 upgrade prediction...seems more likely that they'd wait til WWDC...but I guess we'll see real soon now.

And GhostSniper, you have entirely too much money.

[l ! l Ross]

I think they will release the G5 powermacs early cos there not going to make the 3Ghz mark. So there getting the bad news out of the way first.

But there is no way to know. We just have to wait.

[BTs_Mysterio]

I for one don't buy into the "they can't get 3Ghz" BS. Perhaps we have had bad experiences with Motorola's G4, but this is IBM. The maximum ... maximum prediction for last years WWDC was a G5 at 1.8GHz. They were certainly wrong then, and will be now.

We all saw the delays on the Xserves, but those were the first 90nm G5s made. You could also say that there should have been an upgrade by now, but that would be opinion; Apple has gone long periods before without upgrades. Perhaps steve looks forward to announcing a 1GHz+ leap?

Leave it to us Mac users to be as pessimistic as ever but I for one can see Apple bursting through the 3GHz boarder at WWDC 2004.  So yea, let's try not to slip back into Motorola 50MHz speed bump pessimism again... ok?