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November 29th, 2005, 09:00 AM
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| Apple Could Sell Sex Assuming there is one more generation of the Power Mactintosh G5, Apple could sell Sex G5s. Microsoft already began shipping XBox 360 with tri-core Power PC G5 processors. Quad G5 is basically a dual-processor dual-core G5 Macintosh. A dual-processor tri-core G5 Macintosh could be referred as a Hex or Sex G5--depending on whether Apple prefers Latin or Greek--no racial remark intended. Will it happen? What do you think?
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#2
November 29th, 2005, 09:08 AM
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| I doubt it, the G5 found in the XBox 360 is a "lite" version of the one found in the Powermacs. The underlying technology is the same (Power5 chipset) but completely different chips.
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November 29th, 2005, 09:27 AM
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| Yep -- read the thread entitled "XBox 360 PPC vs. Apple PPC" for some good reasons why you can't slap that tri-core PPC chip in a desktop computer.
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#5
November 29th, 2005, 10:11 AM
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| If Apple sold sex, they would probably include faulty prophylactics in the package - resulting in a class-action lawsuit! 
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#6
November 29th, 2005, 10:28 AM
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| Wow, Johnathan Ive designed prophylactics, what a thought!
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#7
November 29th, 2005, 11:39 AM
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| Hmm, I thought I was going to have to waste this thread at first  but actually, things start to get slower when you keep adding more processors. 6 CPU cores might actually be slower than 4 because you then have the possibility of 6 threads trying to access memory all at once which can slow the system down.It'd most likely have to be 3 physical processors with 2 cores each as 3 full fledged CPU cores on one CPU die isn't really easy to do and would make the die really big.
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#8
November 30th, 2005, 09:40 AM
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| Why is Intel . . . ? Quote:
I'm sure the possible memory access issue you mentioned could be resolved through smart motherboard design. Otherwise, Intel would have a tough time selling its multi-core processors to the world. Regards, Someone patiently waits for his 3GHz Sex G5
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