computerworld.co.nz — At the apple developer conference in Taiwan, Intel may have accidentally stolen Steve Job's thunder and revealed when the new powermac replacements will hit the shelves. "Apple ...with the Woodcrest family of processors making it into Macintosh workstations as early as the third quarter." John Antone (Asia Pacific sales manager)
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jaypee68Apr 22, 2006
Oh man, remember when ATI pulled a similar faux pas, and Apple dumped them and went for Nvidia hardware? :-)
phatsharpieApr 22, 2006
"It was called Power Mac before PowerPC. Back in the Motorola days, in fact."You are thinking of PowerBooks. PowerMacs are introduced with the PowerPC processor. Before the PowerPC processor, the Mac line was divided into the Quadra (68040 w/ integrated FPU) and Centris (68040 w/out FPU). Check out <a class="user" href="http://www.apple-history.com">http://www.apple-history.com</a>-B
Closed AccountApr 22, 2006
DaVinci Code for apple? Isn't that the code name for OS XI ?
grammarpoliceApr 22, 2006
I know man seriously, s**t! Not only will it be able to have 8 cores but they will be Intell proc!! 1 Intel proc is so much faster than the G4 -G5 proc that 8 is just overkill! 8 cores, hmmmmmmmm.....
vheissuApr 22, 2006
Is anyone besides myself getting tired of all the manufactured hype every two weeks? Its like jobs is holding up the last treat to a million starving puppy dogs.
crossersJul 21, 2008
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