I'm all for dual-cpu G4's :) (Yeah, I know you said dual-core, but the parallel rumour to the G5 powerbook is the dual powerbook :) ).
That said, things would still be 32-bit and all the marketing to convince us that 64-bit boxes are necessary would be wasted. Hen On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:30:31 -0500, Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote: > Hey Group, > > A topic meant to stir the pot . . . > > One of Apple's brightest trainers who graces MacTown with his presence > daily, Kevin White forwarded the link below to our staff. > > http://www.powerbookcentral.com/columns/hildreth_moore/g5g4.shtml > > The highlights: > > ? G5s were designed for mainframes NOT laptops... thus they consume > FIVE TIMES THE POWER of a standard G4... not to mention needing at > least three fans to cool the damn thing... thus the no PowerBook G5 > > ? Just because a G5 is 64-bit DOES NOT MAKE IT FASTER... it's the other > things like the memory bus, the higher Mhz speed, and the huge caches > that make it faster. > > ? If you slowed a G5 down enough in Mhz (to reduce power consumption > and heat) to be put inside a laptop it would be SLOWER than the current > G4s. > > ? Motorola is working on dual core, high memory speed "G4" type > processors that look very promising for future PowerBooks. > > In short... we don't need G5 laptops... if we can get G4s that are > almost as fast!! > > > Ward Oldham, MacDude > MacTown > 1041 Bardstown Road > Louisville, KY 40204 > 502-485-1243 > ward at mactown.us > http://www.mactown.us > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
