The G5 is REAL - as per the Apple Web site!

[kelly]

The Leader gives, and The Leader takes away.

Business as usual.

Sure Peter. Get out your soldering iron.

[Gary S]

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Can't they be clocked well beyond the current points?

That's funny. I don't know why.

As far as the looks go.....kind of retro 50's. Square lines like the old PCs. Looks like it belongs in the kitchen next to the stainless steel sink.

My G4 will last me for a while. I still don't understand the size of the front side bus.

My G4 has a 133 MHz and this has an  800MHz, 900MHz on the singles and a 1GHz on the duels.

Backside cache 512k where as the G4s have a 2Mb. I guess I don't know much at all.

I'm glad too that Apple going in a different direction ..... so long as my software and the stuff I'm buying works with the 64 bit architecture.

It will be interesting in the weeks and months ahead to see how the PC community reacts to this and it will also be fun seeing how these new puppies perform in the real world. Exciting.....No?

[Spartacus]

I'm no CPU specialist, but the new front side bus and cache is part of the new architechture of the 970 CPU.
Perhaps you have noticed Gary, the IBM chip doesn't have a L3 cache at all (while the G4 had up to 2 MB).
The large cache of the G4 was Motorola's last effort to squeeze the last bit of power out of the G4 chip.

The big cache of the G4 was often critizied. But I can't tell you why or why it was so bad.

As for the design, I am not quite sure if I like the front.
And I definitely don't like the fact that it only has one optical drive.

Nonetheless, I am going to order one.