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08/18/2003, 4:25am, EDT
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NYT: G5 to be in stores "today"
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The New York Times reports that Apple has over 100,000 pre-orders of the Power Mac G5 and that the new 64-bit computer will be available in US "today" (Monday), while Adobe's free G5-optimized Photoshop plugin will be available on Tuesday, which Adobe says "will improve Photoshop's performance on Apple's G5 computers by 75 to 200 percent, depending on the operation."
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I hope that this plug-in boosts performance a LOT.. :(
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Now, using HT, we have a 1 GHz system bus for EACH CPU, 8 GB/sec bandwidth, scaling at 1/2 the CPU clock speed......when we have 3GHz G5's....they will have dual 1.5GHz system busses..........Intel only has 800MHz bus speeds ( 200MHz quad pumped ) which is only 1/4 the 3.2GHz P4 clock speed. Bandwidth to burn.
Add to this the Power 4 is the fastest server/workstation CPU on earth. MIPS, Alpha, Sparc, Itanic, Xeon, P4, AMD, -without a 128 bit vecor processing unit......2 Complex 64 bit FPU's, 2 Complex Integer Units, 2 load store units, and AltiVec...
It should easily best a P4, by a factor of 4. No one has really seen what Altivec can do with unlimited bandwidth.....yet. It is SCARY! Especially holding 216 instructions in-flight, using DDR400 for 6.4 GB/sec RAM, Serial ATA, 8x AGP....the system has no limits.......as for optimized code.....when not optimized ( or G4 optimized) a G5 is 3x faster.....than a G4. Scheduling, which is quite different in a 970, gives it closer to 6 to 8 times faster than a G4 CPU......
PhotoShop hauls ass! So does any Audio/Video/3-D/ multimedia/ MPEG encode/decode - it's the mother of all CPU's, and nothing will catch up in the next decade.......scary fast!!!!
Prepare your credit cards...
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They are in stock and available at all locations today! There is a discount of $500.00 for the first 500 buyers.
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Anyone else have theirs yet too?
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