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What will they call it? (Page 2)
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Mac Elite
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Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies
(Never mind what Apple calls a G5 is technically a G4.)
Explain pls...
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stuffing feathers up your b*tt doesn't make you a chicken.
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PowerPC 970, what Apple calls the G5, is based on the Power4 processor.
Granted, it's a very different, far more powerful processor than Motorola/Freescale's PowerPC MPC 7400, but it's still technically a G4.
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Hmm, what to call it?
iMac and Mac Mini will remain the same IMHO - to good an image to change now. PowerMacs will be now known as "Macintosh" or something with Mac in the title whilst keeping a certain aspect of class in it - as is the norm for the "Premier" line of Apples (by premier I mean overpriced but nice)
I can see Powermac staying, but it doesn't feel right without a PowerPC in it.
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Hark, I hear a robin sig'ing in the trees!
Nae, there is no sog to be sug,
or am I wrog? Why can't I sig?
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Originally Posted by :XI:
Power Mac G6. Because it's a sixth generation Power Mac.
pontiac called, it wants its name back 
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12" AI book REV B, mac mini core duo 1.66
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Perhaps the new PowerMacs will coincide with the Pentium 5 release.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Let's get some clarification, people. Power Mac is the name of the model. G5 is the name of the processor.
I highly doubt Apple will stop using the name Power Mac. Jobs is doing all he can now to convince people that the Intel machines of tomorrow will have the exact same sweet Mac goodness as today's. Changing the name would mean losing a lot of brand identity.
As for the name of the chip...it wouldn't suprise me at all if Apple called it the G6. Motorola > IBM > Intel. Next evolution, next manufacturer. The last thing Apple wants to do is call attention to the enormous differences in architecture between the PowerPC and x86. That will just scare people.
The real question is what will we call Intel-equipped Macs. As in "I was at the Apple store today and they had one of the new dual 4Ghz [nickname] Power Macs on display. It was smokin' fast...but it couldn't play Doom 4  ."
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