Tiger announced (and PowerMac/PowerBook rumors)
Posted by Scott Laird Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:23:13 GMT
Apple finally announced a ship date for Tiger: April 29th. They’ve kept the same pricing that they’ve used for earlier releases, $129 per copy or $199 for a 5-system “family pack.” Apparently they’ve added a Tiger/iLife/iWork bundle at $249 as well.
Think Secret is also reporting that new PowerMac G5 systems will show up at the NAB conference this weekend. They’re unsure if Apple will use IBM’s dual-core CPUs yet, or just stick with faster single-core processors. There’s some evidence that Apple is getting ready to release 4-processor sysetms, so systems with 2 dual-core CPUs wouldn’t be surprising.
On the PowerBook G5 front, ThinkSecret says that they don’t expect to see them any time in 2005. It’s unclear what Apple will do with their PowerBook lineup if the G5 is still most of a year away. Their current CPU is bus-starved, and cranking up the clock rate (or even using Freestyle’s dual-core G4) probably won’t give them a lot of extra performance.
I’ve heard the rumour that Apple are announcing there dual core G5 some time in may do you think this will make other power macs obsolete if so im sueing i just got mine 3 months ago. Apple can both rock and suck at the same time. I’ve also heard by pumping my ram to the full 8gb capacity that my machine can run twice as fast is there any truth to this?