Does eBay know something that we don't?

Posted by Scott Laird Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:25:23 GMT

Heh. Apparently eBay knows something about the mythical PowerBook G5 that the rest of us don’t. Take a look at this ad that Google Ads attached to Engadget’s RSS feed:

Update: The Inquirer has a few more details on the PowerBook G4 update front. They’re pointing fingers at the Freescale MPC8641, the single-core version of Freescale (formerly Motorola’s chip division)’s dual-core G4. The chip includes a RapidIO FSB, on-chip network and PCI-E controllers, an on-chip dual-channel DDR2 controller. Other reports have suggested that Apple’s going to use Freescale’s 7448, which seems to be the same basic chip, only without the on-board memory controller, PCI-E, networking, or RapidIO, and with a 200 MHz FSB instead.

It goes without saying that I’d love to see the dual-channel MPC8641D in a PowerBook, but that’s probably asking way too much from Apple.

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  1. Maz said 19 minutes later:

    He is just talking about the next generation of G4 powerbooks not G5… G4 is still a PowerPC processor.

  2. Scott Laird said about 1 hour later:

    Not the article–look at the ad towards the bottom of the picture.

  3. topfunky said about 6 hours later:

    I don’t think I can afford a new G5 PowerBook, so I think I’ll buy one of the used ones they are advertising. :)

  4. Maz said 4 days later:

    OH, I see :)

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