G5's In January

[Kid Red]

Re: G5's In January

Originally posted by applemacdude
There will be a G5 announced in MWSF. I got this information from a very important person at Apple. He's my friend and I can't risk his job and won't say anything else.

I doubt it unless IBM has moved up it's schedule. Moto's last G4 is due in jan with IBM's power4 core due next summer. I don't think Moto would take the G5 name if it's just a faster G4 on new mobo? Then what would you call the power4 core 6 months later? This doesn't jive with what I've been told unless Apple is maybe scrapping the G4+ and going right to the power4 core.

 

[Akira]

Ahem!

Why would the switched Apple-newbie's be 'Yikesed' by Apple if thy would launch a G5 tower Jan 2003?
Most of them bought a iMac or eMac, I presume, and we're talking about G5 towers here...

by the way, the Switch-campain is US only, I think... anyway, As far as I know Apple doesn't run a Switch-campain here in Europe...

 

[ddtlm]

I would be amazed if Apple launched a "G5" in early 2003 because they just came out with their DDR tower mobo. They can't afford to make em and then throw them away a few months later.

The PCI G4's were short lived because they used the G3 mobos... a very different situation from what we have now.

There will be no "G5" in early 2003, at least not one that replaces the current tower lineup.