April 27th, 2005
Apple PowerMac SpeedBumps — dual 2.7, dual 2.3, and dual 2.0
As reported at most of the Mac sites already, Apple released speed bumped PowerMacs today. Amazon “slipped” by putting the products on their site a few days ago, so none of us are really surprised.
New Specs:
Single 1.8GHz PowerPC G5
256MB DDR400 SDRAM
80GB Serial ATA
8x SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
ATI Radeon 9600
Dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
ATI Radeon 9600
Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
ATI Radeon 9650
A lot of people were hoping for dual-core G5’s because Intel and AMD are pushing dual-core now. My guess (or my hope) is that these speed bumps are just to get us over the hump until later this year.
My Prediction: Siggraph (August) for Apples dual-core G5’s on the desktop, and WWDC (May) for dual-core G4’s for laptops.
[edited to shorten G5 specs]
