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Do you personally plan to buy a new desktop PowerMac this year?
1/1: Do you personally plan to buy a new desktop PowerMac this year?
Other polls | 2,045 votes | 8 comments
Operator error!
It seems I left "No, I won't buy a new desktop this year" off the poll for the first 100 or so votes - so I'm assuming most of the "other" responses would've fallen into that bucket had it existed! Sorry about that.
Last year
I bought one last year...
I need to upgrade
My iMac DV 400 is getting a bit old... That G3 just doesn't cut it anymore. If Apple doesn't release a PPC970 this year I'll probably get a PC (not Windows though).
I need to upgrade
If you are like me and thought to use your Mac for productivity, games, email and web (I also do software development) then you will likely derive little or no benefit from a PowerMac Desktop.
I need to upgrade
I haven't priced a PC lately, but I seriously doubt $800 will get you:
PPC970
What is it?
PPC970
The PPC970 is the "PowerPC 970," a new PowerPC chip from IBM. Basically, it's scaled down from a high-end server CPU, and then has Altivec support added in. Ars Technica has a couple great articles (1, 2) that provide much more info on the chip.
But the most interesting reading about the PPC970 and Macs is probably on MacBidouille, a French Mac site. They published some rumored benchmark results from early PPC970-based Macs. Whether they're true or not, of course, is complete speculation. Nonetheless, they make for interesting reading. -rob.
Laptop instead.
We bought a desktop last year for OS 9 bootability (rarely used, but nice to have) and to hold us over until the second or third-generation 970 Macs ship (to work out all the bugs). |
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