When is someone gonna port macosX to the Wintel? c"mon not a crappy system7, 8 or 9 emu, give me the works! - ED
Ripped from The Reg in true unprofessional fashion, thanks to BaphomeT for the link: The PowerPC G5 has been passed for full-scale manufacture, a source close to Apple has claimed.
And the Mac maker is still on course to ship Power Mac G5 desktops at Macworld Expo San Francisco in just over a months" time - provided Motorola can increase the chip"s yield.
According to our mole, the G5 is tentatively being produced in three versions: 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz. We say "tentatively" because there still appears to be some concern that there will be insufficient 1.6GHz parts for a commercial release. Says our source: "The chips that are testing at 1GHz are being set aside in case there are not enough 1.6GHz chips to release that machine."
In short, if Apple can"t do 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz Power Mac G5s, it will release 1.0GHz, 1.2GHz and 1.4GHz-clocked machines. Presumably depending on the yields demonstrated over the coming weeks, the low-end box will go into production on 14 December, followed by the mid-range machine in 20 December. The fastest Power Mac G5 will start rolling off the production line on 3 January 2002, our correspondent claims.
The machines will all ship with DDR SDRAM memory, a "much faster" frontside bus and Gigawire.