1.25GHZ is just overclocked 1GHZ

[isgoed]

Don't buy the new G4 1.25 Ghz mac. It is just an overclocked 1 Ghz model. There are sources on it on internet. just use Yahoo. Why else would there be such a dramatic venting system on it. I suspected it right away. This means that Motorola was not able to produce a faster chip in 6 months.

My advise is not to bu a G4 at all. It was a big management mistake to drop th development f the G5. As far as I am concerned, the current development shows no future for apple. This is a real shame because already in 2001 motorola had a 2.6Ghz G5 prototype in their labs. Their only rescue is if they are already working on a venture with IBM, intel or AMD for use with OSX.

My next computer will be a PC. Intel already is testing a 4.5Ghz Pentium 4.

[serpicolugnut]

Ouch. Cant... Respond... Too... Many... Flame... Ideas.... Come...To...Mind....

I've been down on Apple lately, but I'm not gonna bait this troll post....

[edX]

hey, how about a link to one of those "sources"? I am sure they are all reputable and respected purveyors of truth.

[kendall]

This is absurd.

What do you think a P3 750 MHz CPU is? Its a P3 700 MHz running at 133 MHz system bus, not 100 MHz.

Most processors unless their core changes are just "overclocked" versions of the original.

As they produced the 1 GHz G4 the more efficient they became given them higher yields of stable 1 GHz G4s thus allowing them to bump the speed from 1 GHz to 1.25 GHz and not worry about it crashing.

Now that 1.25 GHz G4 will continue to be produced and the cycle will continue until the core changes. The price for the 1 GHz G4 went down while the 1.25 GHz G4 went up. What's the big deal?

If they get a lot of 1.25 GHz G4s that don't run stable at that speed, they'll bump them down to 1 GHz. Its all in the manufacturing process and how its refined.

This is nothing new but thanks for the heads up.

[WoLF]

this guy has 7 posts. hes prolly a winblows troll

[isgoed]

I could not find my original source on the internet any more (which was the best one), but I found loads of others:

Evidence:

http://www.mail-archive.com/macnews@.../msg00342.html
http://www.theinquirer.org/?article=6037

how the overclocked processors could be fit on the systembusses

http://www.theinquirer.org/?article=6037
http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/20...lekludge.shtml

motorola's G4 7455 specs

http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps...odeId=01M98653


And where are all the good developers going. Is a Playstation II emulator ever coming? See the Grinch project at www.macraider.com. Or can the mac Hardware keep up with the demands new games need.

BTW
I am not trolling. I know what it is, because I read about it in Macworld UK edition october 2002 Page 41. (Provoking people by making (false) statements). I own a performa 630, an iMac and a powerbook G4550. So I am serious

[kendall]

Like I said, this is nothing new. CPU manufacturers have been doing this for many years.

[kommakazi]

Really I see no valid point in all of this. Anyone who's read the slightest inking of Apple-related news in the past year knows that Moto basically sucks. As for the "overclocking" it's like what itanium said about the 750 PIII just being an overclocked PIII 700. It's always been like that no matter what the processor, no big deal. And where does it say that development of the G5 has stopped? It hasn't. It's just not going to be a desktop processor. This is where IBM comes in, it's up and coming PPC 970, a derivative of the Power4, will be your 'G5'. It won't be a 'G5'. Don't get too stuck on the Gx naming convention, it's probably gonna change come the PPC 970. I really see no valid reason why you're going to just drop support for Apple. It's not Apple's fault that Motorola's been fumbling and fumbling. Perhaps Apple has been a bit slow in responding to it...but now they finally seem to have. I see a bright future coming with IBM's PPC 970...don't lose faith yet.