Steve said in the Keynotes that they would be up to 3Ghz by the end of the year.
Also, Apple never copied Xerox, Im sick of dismissing this myth. So people get it straight.
Xerox had a wierd machine that had a couple of windows a clicking device, and some buttons that did stuff. It could bearly be calld an OS, or a true GUI. Jobs liked the idea and PAID Xerox to have his poeple come over and get "inspired" by it.
XEROX AGREED! Later when the Macintosh project began, XEROX lent asistance. One of the lead Mac Designers was a dude who worked on the Xerox GUI.
So enugh of that Bullshit, Apple invented the GUI, Xerox had a vague outline for what a GUI may be like. Kinda like the Wright bros. everyone had an idea about what a plane would be like, there were many crude designs, but the Wright bros. invented the Areoplane, case closed.
Furthermore, the facility which builds the G5 is a 5 billion dollor facility opend up by a joint effort between Apple and IBM. The G5 is not a pure Power4, it's one Apple and IBM co-engeneered. Jobs made it clear that this is a JOINT effort between IBM and Apple. Not only that, that same IBM facility produces one of the most important component to the G5 system architecture, the little chip on the mobo which basicaly rgulates all trafic (cant remember it's name
).
In any case, again, the G5, the 64-bit processor are all apple inovations! Intel hasent even begun to consider 64-bit, the AMD 64-bit project has backward compatability issues and is not widely adopted. The G5 is fully 32-bit compatable, and recompiling for it is as simple as clicking a checkbox in XCode (which BTW was amazing
).
So all you windoids can suck my ass! Apple Ownzz all of you HAHAHAAHAHHAAHHAHAHA!!!!
Sorry... Im extra giddy
P.s. Also, it is important to note, that IBM now has a vested interest in Apple's success. It will be very interesting to see how their relationship developes. I don't think IBM is about to let Apple fall behind again anytime soo.
[ June 23, 2003: Message edited by: psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax ]