Yes The G5 did Reach 3Ghz

[Macmadant]

soon so Steve wouldnt have looked like a fool.

"I stood up here two years ago and promised 3ghz, we haven't been able to deliver that to you" couple of weeks later ibm releases 3ghz G5 putting them in powermacs would make him look sily for saying that

 

[Macmadant]

The exact moment

 

[bbrosemer]

Wow thanks for quoting me then not even talk about what I said!!! People really need to stop doing that... I said it was not going into a laptop ok not damn PowerMacs... O yeah and you also falied to mention that IBM has a 4-5ghz server chip coming out in a year or so but who cares I mean really they want to sell more laptops to everyday people, everyone who uses a powermac will and always will people are not going to switch from Windows to OS X for a 3ghz desktop that they already had in their PC no, applw wants to compete and they will do so in laptops

 

[dr_lha]

IBM's POWER series server chips are pretty specialised and probably cost more than a PowerMac for the chip alone.

Note that the G5 is based off IBM's POWER4 architecture, the chip you are talking about that IBM is coming out with is the POWER6 architecture. The POWER5 architecture has been available for a while, so if IBM really cared about Desktop chips we should be on the G6 by now really.

Personally I think that IBM find attempting to be competitive with Intel and AMD too much of a drain on resources and they would rather make money from high end/expensive chips and chips for consoles that have lifetimes of 5-7 years in manufacturing, but generally never get any faster.

 

[bbrosemer]

Thank you someone who sees that IBM was not out to help apple they were falling farther and farther behind but just continued to ignore the PPC chips instead they just continuned to work on there server chips and all of their chips that are currently going into gaming systems.. Props to Steve for dropping these bunch of losers, Steve never like IBM to begin with anyway, has anyone else seen the 1983 commerical this just gave him a reason to drop IBM.

 

[ManchesterTrix]

This is a bit of a let down. With universal binarys really being pushed why don't they just stick out the 3 ghz g5.
the only real benifit to the intel switch was having the core duo processors in the portables and what did it get us? Intel graphics!

Universal Binaries are a stop-gap to make the transition smoother, they are not meant to be a forever thing.