Two days after previous announcement on Airport Express, Apple has finally announced an upgrade to the long overdue G5 PowerMac. This time, there are three models to choose and the top of the range sports a whooping 2.5Ghz G5. The “World’s Fastest Personal Computer” has just gone faster. At the same time, it might also disappointed the Apple fans who have been greatly affected by Steve Jobs’ field of distortion last year, when he promised 3Ghz G5 PowerMac by this Summer. I guess Apple has been very quiet about it lately.
Interestingly, the new PoweMac has its cooling system redesigned to suit faster and hotter G5 chip, so that it can stay calm and quiet. This time, a sophisticated water cooling system has been used. Yes! Water cooling in off the shelf mass production system – from the “design is everything” Apple! I wonder what will be Apple’s next move. A 5Ghz PowerMac with refillable liquid nitrogen tank? :)
Now I wish I have one… Won’t be available until July though.
Update: Australian price is out:
| Model | Ram | Disk | Video | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dual 1.8Ghz G5 | 256Mb | 80Gb | Geforce 5200 Ultra | AUD$3,599 |
| Dual 2.0Ghz G5 | 512Mb | 160Gb | Geforce 5200 Ultra | AUD$4,499 |
| Dual 2.5Ghz G5 | 512Mb | 160Gb | Radeon 9600 XT | AUD$5,299 |
Still outside the land of reach…
havn’t seen much serious backlash on apple for not delivering the 3GHz. apple can really do no wrong at the moment …
Even though Steve Jobs said they should reach 3GHz by this time this year people should not be too disappointed that they haven’t. You’ve got to assume that Steve went to IBM and said “what’s the road map for the G5?” and they said “should easily be 3GHz by this time next year”, and why wouldn’t you believe IBM if they told you that. So Steve goes and does WWDC and announces such.
As has been reported though IBM have had a great deal of trouble switching to the 90nm chip manufacturing process so this has really led to the slow down in what their time frame for projected chip speed would have been.
Now with IBM back on track I would expect them to be able to move up processor speeds more quickly again.