“After more than two years, Motorola Inc., late last week revised its road map for the company’s PowerPC processors, the chips that lie at the heart of many embedded devices as well as Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh computers. Though the new information is slight, for many it reinforces speculation that Apple will release new desktop computers based on Motorola’s “G5″ family of processors, perhaps as early as January’s Macworld Expo/San Francisco trade show, sources said.” Get the rest of the story at ExtremeTech.
Motorola Readies G5 Processors
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What we need is for Motorola to make a mobo that will fit the atx form factor, run the G5, and use industry-standard components, such as PC133 or Rambus memory, IDE hard, CD-RW, and DVD Drives, and standard PCI cards. Ideally, It would cost less than $350 with the G5 proc, but it’s probably just a pipe dream. It would be nice to use MacOS X without having to buy another $1500-2000 computer. It could also run linux;)
It would be nice to use MacOS X without having to buy another $1500-2000 computer.
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Yeh, that’s what it boils down to. I’d like to keep my options open, but with Apple’s hold on the hardware, I don’t have the slightest interest, and as a consequence I tend to ignore all things Apple (so does 95%+ of the market).
Apple is a hardware company though, and it needs to stick to its guns on its hardware. They learned the hard way that they couldn’t compete in the clone market. Would be great to be able to buy a board and at least be able to upgrade the processor 1 or 2 years down the line to the latest speed rev with cheap, widely available processors, components & peripherals.