Dual G4's are here...!

[Tinnitus]

FYI:

Full Text at: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...605260,00.html

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NEW YORK -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday unveiled not only new multiprocessor Power Mac G4s and revised iMacs, but the new Power Mac G4 Cube, CRT and flat-panel displays, a revised keyboard and a new optical mouse, previewed recently on ZDNet.

Two of the three-model Power Mac G4 line, all of which are available immediately, are outfitted with dual G4 processors, Jobs said at his keynote opening Macworld Expo.

The base system remains powered by a single G4 processor and keeps its $1,599 price; the other two feature twin 450- and 500-MHz G4s but keep their previous $2,499 and $3,499 prices respectively.

One rumor that didn't pan out was that the new systems would feature ATI Technologies Inc.'s new Radeon 3D accelerator; according to the Apple online store, all Power Mac G4s will stick with ATI's Rage 128 Pro.

To demonstrate the advantage of dual processors, even with the limited multiprocessing capabilities of Mac OS 9, Jobs and his frequent keynote sidekick, Apple Vice President for Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller, showed a dual-G4 Power Mac halving the image-processing time for a large Adobe Photoshop file over a 1GHz Pentium III computer.

The entire Power Mac line also features Gigabit Ethernet built into the motherboard. Schiller showed the advantage of such a large pipe by playing and editing an uncompressed video file that resided on a remote server.

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[ProTools4]

RATS for PT Mixand Mix plus users!!!!??

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"Natorious" Tad Banzuelo
Rockin' SoCal
[email protected]

[DigiDawg]

Hmmmm,

And NO SCSI Ports on this Borg Cube either. Anybody know how digi plans to interface with this new marvel of technology? From the threads that I've seen, Firewire is still a pipedream audio interface for all of us.

Living in curious times. Look forward to seeing where this goes....

DigiDawg

[actualsizeaudio]

Wait a minute! We were promised six PCI slots in the next G4! Hey, what the hell! damn, damn, damn, damn damn........

saxhole

[mike connelly]

"And NO SCSI Ports on this Borg Cube either. Anybody know how digi plans to interface with this new marvel of technology?"

I assume they don't. That's what the "big" G4's are for.

What I want to know is, will PT or PTLE benefit from MP hardware?

Mike

[CYork]

...check out the thread
"DIG THAT TDM GRAVE THE DUAL PROCESSORS ARE HERE" in the Mac Digi 001 board

there is some detailed discussion here

chad

[ProTools4]

SaxHole
Who promised us 6 slot G4's? When and were?

Did I miss a meeting?(quote Bill Hicks)

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"Natorious" Tad Banzuelo
Rockin' SoCal
[email protected]

[Rockman-Songwriter]

Does anyone know whether the new dual G4s are going to have an impact on Pro Tools? I have a Mix Plus system, with a G4 400Mhz, which I just purchased less than 2 months ago. Any ideas anyone? Do the new dual G4s give us more DSP crunching power?

Thanks

[Targon]

There has been rumor for sometime about 6 Slot G4's.

The current Dual G4's are not really new G4's. They possess only minor modifications.

The new or next gen G4's will come with the new UMA-2 Logic board with several enhancements that are relatively major.

Most people are anticipating the revised CPU the G4+.
Apple will only shop the new UMA-2/G4+ Mac's when Mac OS X ships. At that point perhaps the 6 Slots may make a welcomed return.

Mac OS X is scheduled to ship Jan 2001 at the Mac World San Fransisco along with this new G4 Mac.

TaRGØN

[Dan L]

Apparantly the g4 cubes don't have ANY PCI slots!!!!