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How is this going to work? Will Apple release a PowerMac G6 as soon as they've upgraded the notebooks and the eMac to G5?
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Well it really depends on the state of technology:
If Intel or motorola has a new processor architecture that differentiates enough from the G5 to call it a G6 then maybe they will introduce it soon.
But in all likelihood the G5 will be kept around for some time yet...
remember, even if they change parts of a chip, they tend to keep the same name (see pentium 4 various incarnations...)
If Intel or motorola has a new processor architecture that differentiates enough from the G5 to call it a G6 then maybe they will introduce it soon.
But in all likelihood the G5 will be kept around for some time yet...
remember, even if they change parts of a chip, they tend to keep the same name (see pentium 4 various incarnations...)
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true, the g4 was around for years before g5, and g5 being fairly new, I doubt that apple is gonna try to compete with itself by releasing a g6 anytime soon.
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G4 went from 450Mghz to 1.42Ghz in four years. name was kept the same chip architecture was basicaly the same. now the IBM chip architecture is completely diferent, thats wahy it was called G5, not because of the speed bump. unless apple goes to completely different chip or wendor they will keep the same name no matter how fast G5 will become. I would not expect G6 for at least 3-4 years from now, unless somebody invents some new technology that would overcome "90 nanomter" problem. the chip industy has almost reached the dead end with present technology
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Well, considering the fact that the G5 is actually kind of a "light" version of IBMs Power5, there's still way to go for that architecture before going to G6.
The Power5 is a multicore CPU, and the G5, in simple ways, is just one of these cores.
I think that the future for home and business computer CPUs will be multicore, the MHz myth coming definitely to an end because of it's technical limits (getting too warm and a high power consumption).
Intel's HyperThreading is just a pseudo dual core, but a real dual core would work like 2 real CPUs, not imitating them.
Apple already is prepared for that, as their systems are avilable with 2 CPUs since a while already. Mac OS X, as it's UNIX based, can handle multiple CPUs far better than Windows, as it was never meant to be used for more than one CPU.
The Power5 is a multicore CPU, and the G5, in simple ways, is just one of these cores.
I think that the future for home and business computer CPUs will be multicore, the MHz myth coming definitely to an end because of it's technical limits (getting too warm and a high power consumption).
Intel's HyperThreading is just a pseudo dual core, but a real dual core would work like 2 real CPUs, not imitating them.
Apple already is prepared for that, as their systems are avilable with 2 CPUs since a while already. Mac OS X, as it's UNIX based, can handle multiple CPUs far better than Windows, as it was never meant to be used for more than one CPU.
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