[DM-MUG] Speculative Specifications on new Powermacs at Thinksecret

[Bailey Ford]

Well, in a nutshell, they say the new line will look like this:

> Dual-2GHz
> 512K L2 cache per processor
> Dual 1GHz frontside buses
> 512MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (4GB max.)
> 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
> 128MB DDR SDRAM ATI Radeon 9600 video card
>
>
> Dual-2.3GHz
> 512K L2 cache per processor
> Dual 1.15GHz frontside buses
> 512MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (8GB max.)
> 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
> 128MB DDR SDRAM ATI Radeon 9600 video card
>
>
> Dual-2.7GHz
> 512K L2 cache per processor
> Dual 1.35GHz frontside buses
> 512MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (8GB max.)
> 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
> 256MB DDR SDRAM ATI Radeon 9650 video card
>

Apparently, the water cooling thing is gone (longevity issues). The 
video card selection looks very odd to me, and it would be a shame if 
they didn't update the type of RAM that was used. During the conference 
call for the quarterly financials, the apple people said that they 
expected production of the G5 chip to remain constrained - especially 
at the high end - though the end of Q2 05. It's supposed to be 
announced at NAB and ship alongside Tiger at the end of the month.

If they pull a big surprise and come out with the 970MX instead of the 
970GX that I'm expecting, I will do a little happy dance and finally 
forgive SJ for that whopping 3.0GHz lie.

What do you guys think?

- bailey