The last of the PowerPC Macs

Factual Questions
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Don’t know if there’s a verifiable “factual” answer to this . . . an educated guess will do.

In the near future (weeks to months) I’ll be looking to replace my Mac. I’d rather get a last-generation PowerPC Mac than a first-generation Intel.

Does anyone know whether the G5 Dual 2.7 GHz is, in fact, the last of the Power PCs, or is there going to be a 3 GHz?

Thanks.

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Apple is having a press conference tomorrow (noon EDT OCT 19) (yes, another one!). Rumor has it there will be new PowerMacs announced .

In the recent quaterly finacial brifing, One of the Apple guys said “Great PowerPC products in the pipline” (at least I THINK it was plural). The next day they announced the new iMac (two models). Don’t know if that counts as a product or products.

In any case, wait till tomorrow. If nothing, then the next opportunity is probably MacWorld San Francisco in late Jan. Up to you if you want to wait that long.
Brian

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And now I can factually answer the question. Apple anounced three new PMs
Single chip dual core 2GHz
Single chip dual core 2.3GHz
Dual chip, dual core 2.5 GHz

All the models have PCIe, and 1Gig of L2 cache per core.

http://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html#store

Brian

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1mb of L2. I wish there was a processor with 1gig L2, that would be nice