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Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC
By: Kasper Jade 06.07.03

Panther, the next generation of Apple's modern-day Mac OS X operating system, won't be the only thing turning heads three weeks from now in San Francisco. The computer maker, which will not be attending the Macworld "Creative Pro" conference in July, will use its annual developers conference to showcase this summer's product offerings, sources tell AppleInsider.

Traditionally, Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is scheduled during the month of May. However, in March of this year, the company announced that it had rescheduled its 2003 Worldwide Developers Conference for late June, in order to provide developers with a more complete preview release of "Panther." What the press release did not say is that this first developer release of Panther would be demonstrated by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, on the company's new line of Power Mac G5 desktop computers.

The new Power Mac G5s will sport a completely new motherboard design utilizing DDR 400 RAM as well as AGP 8x graphics, FireWire 800 (FireWire 2), and USB 2.0, sources said. "In the box" connectivity among the news systems is based on Hypertransport -- a universal chip-to-chip interconnect developed by AMD and partners -- which provides 64-bit addressing and will replace Apple's multilevel bus architecture found in current systems. This royalty-free technology sports a low manufacturing cost and is capable of transferring data at up to 12.8 Gigabytes per second.

The new Power Macs will be powered by IBM's 64 bit PPC 970 processor, otherwise known to Apple Marketing as the the "G5." Initial offerings of the Power Mac G5 are said to boast 1.4 and 1.8GHz, single core PPC 970 processors, with the possibility of a dual 1.8GHz chips shortly thereafter.

To accommodate the new motherboard architecture, Apple has developed a modified Power Mac G5 enclosure, which is said to be more square and compact than the current Power Mac G4's deep, rectangular form-factor. It lacks the 4 curved handles found on current units, but sports a single USB and a single FireWire 800 port on the front of the casing, with additional ports in the rear.

According to sources, Apple plans to make the Power Mac G5 available to the public following their introduction on June 23rd. These initial units will ship with Mac OS 10.2, and hence, will not be optimized for the 64 bit PPC 970 processor. Consumers who purchase these Power Mac G5s will receive a coupon for a free copy of Mac OS 10.3 (Panther), which will ship in September and will be optimized for the new 64 bit processor.


i found that info here:
appleinsider
please tell me i'm dreaming
 
This is pretty much what we are all hoping for anyway, and have been for a while.

The 'G5' title may not be true, so the rumours say (Apple think that it is more than a simple upgrade of G numbers).

The case is definately due a revamp as well, but I hope they keep those handles, they are really useful.
 
the handles is one thing, but i hope they keep the easy method of opening the box up. Opening a PowerMac is insanly easy, I hope it stays this way (Im sure it will tho).;)
 
The computer maker, which will not be attending the Macworld "Creative Pro" conference in July, ...
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To the contrary: Apple will be attending Macworld ...

The report is largely consistent with (but maybe based on) older rumors, reported principally by Macbidouille and MacWhispers. The tech specs may be whishful thinking, but are actually possible. In an ArsTechnica thread, however, Hypertransport was doubted as possible feature.

If all the rumor sites did in fact obtain this info independently from one another, then it is quite certain that we will see something like this at the WWDC. BUT! (big but necessary here) if they are just parroting each other, it is highly doubtful what Steve will pull out of the hat ... Let's hope for the best though! :D
 
Wow! I didn't realize those pics were out!! And it doesn't look Photoshopped at all!!!

Of course, even if that was a real pic, it doesn't really show anything Mac related - the PPC970 is by no means a secret, and doesn't say anything about "G970", Apple, etc :)
 
Originally posted by Ripcord
Wow! I didn't realize those pics were out!! And it doesn't look Photoshopped at all!!!

Of course, even if that was a real pic, it doesn't really show anything Mac related - the PPC970 is by no means a secret, and doesn't say anything about "G970", Apple, etc :)
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...according to IBM that is, here:
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/photolib...4935E5FF8088A81087256C5300559C0A?OpenDocument

As for G970 I call it this way because we currently do not know how Apple will name it... Many people call it PPC970, G5, etc. What I did is to simply combine G+970=G970 :p

Finally, if you believe that this is not Apple's future CPU for use on Macs I cannot convince otherwise but I think Steve Jobs Keynote in less than 13 days will suffice... :rolleyes: :D ;)

:)
 
MacRumors had a post based on this info and it was pulled due to Apple legal action (have backup :D ) ... AppleInsider is still online though and many sites have posted copies of the article.
Less than two weeks now ... :)
 
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