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I give it a week until someone starts making 'PowerBook' or 'Intel PowerBook' stickers!

No FW800, hmm. Guess I was right on the money when I bought my new FW400 case.

Still I'm considering selling my 'Powerbook' (Pismo) my Cube and my G4 Quicksilver for one of these babies...assuming it will run Windows when I get the Urge...

Mr. T wrote:

avkills wrote:

Really, who gives a smurf what they call them.  Although I am skeptical of their performance claims.  The new iMac by what Apple says would be faster than a 2Ghz DP PowerMac G5.... I seriously doubt that.

I'll wait for Barefeats to do the real benchmarks with them.

-mark

The Intel Core Duo, as they call it, clocks similar to the 2GHz DP G5.  It wouldn't have to be much faster per cycle to out-do the G5.  The G5 has a faster FSB, but it's still using the same memory.

About the only thing I think the Core Duo will beat the Dual Core G5 on is integer performance.  It is well known that Intel likes to run those integer units real fast (last I did some research they were clocking them 2x the core clock)

Barefeats will have their hands on one soon enough.

-mark

Don't ya mean ExpressCard/34 FW 800 adaptor?

Uhhh, read the specs again, there is no PCMCIA or Cardbus.  It is now a ExpressCard/34 slot like what was mentioned above.

-mark

as much as i love the name powerbook, i do think the change to intel initiates a name change.

had been given the chance, i would have voted for "Mach Book"

but really it is just a name.

Name stupid, even just dropping the "Pro" helps.

And for those that were asking, the original PowerBooks were the PowerBook 100, which used a 68000 processor, and the PowerBook 140 and PowerBook 170, which used 68030 processors.  So the name PowerBook preceeds the introduction of the PowerPCs.

Incidentally, after the introduction of the Power Macs (and before the PowerPC PowerBooks), someone joked "Would a book about new PowerPC-based PowerBooks be called a Power PowerBook book?"

avkills wrote:

Mr. T wrote:

avkills wrote:

Really, who gives a smurf what they call them.  Although I am skeptical of their performance claims.  The new iMac by what Apple says would be faster than a 2Ghz DP PowerMac G5.... I seriously doubt that.

I'll wait for Barefeats to do the real benchmarks with them.

-mark

The Intel Core Duo, as they call it, clocks similar to the 2GHz DP G5.  It wouldn't have to be much faster per cycle to out-do the G5.  The G5 has a faster FSB, but it's still using the same memory.

About the only thing I think the Core Duo will beat the Dual Core G5 on is integer performance.  It is well known that Intel likes to run those integer units real fast (last I did some research they were clocking them 2x the core clock)

Barefeats will have their hands on one soon enough.

-mark

Care to make it interesting?   Anandtech is saying that the Duo is overall about the same clock-for-clock as the X2 - Sometimes a little faster, sometimes a little slower, but never by a significant amount.  ...But we shall see.

Surfungus wrote:

Maybe they're thinking of adding new colors eventually?

** shudder **

Colors were bad. Remember?

Macbook isn't too horrible... but. I think of Mac as meaning "pro", tho, so it sounds like a double positive in my head. I wouldn't like them to drop the iBook line, as they were the laptop versions of the iMacs. That name needs to stay.

I wonder what the new desktop towers are going to be called. Powermac doesn't change to Macmac too well...

webdesbw wrote:

I wonder what the new desktop towers are going to be called. Powermac doesn't change to Macmac too well...

Apple considered SuperMac, but that name is already trademarked by Power Computing who will likely use it in their new line of clones.

(just kidding... or am I?)

...and i'll say it here too.

reece_james wrote:

Mac Pro? MacBook Pro?


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

The new pro desktops will be called the MacDaddy.

If they were really after name association, they would have called them PodBook Pros.

Mr. T wrote:

avkills wrote:

Mr. T wrote:

The Intel Core Duo, as they call it, clocks similar to the 2GHz DP G5.  It wouldn't have to be much faster per cycle to out-do the G5.  The G5 has a faster FSB, but it's still using the same memory.

About the only thing I think the Core Duo will beat the Dual Core G5 on is integer performance.  It is well known that Intel likes to run those integer units real fast (last I did some research they were clocking them 2x the core clock)

Barefeats will have their hands on one soon enough.

-mark

Care to make it interesting?   Anandtech is saying that the Duo is overall about the same clock-for-clock as the X2 - Sometimes a little faster, sometimes a little slower, but never by a significant amount.  ...But we shall see.

Yeah I read that also. I am sure barefeats will have some sort of benchmarks by the end of the week.

-mark