Originally Posted by Pawnjob
Tough crowd. I'm not a techy so forgive me if my terminology is off by a bit. I don't pretend to sound knowledgable but right off you make it sound like you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. Perhaps they're going to call it something else, I don't know. I got my first Mac, a G3 in the early 90's, a Powerbook "G4" around '05 w/ G5 desktops coming out around the same time. So I just assumed that Apple would release a G6 at some point in the future. I think any reasonable person w/ any common sense would have at least some idea of what I was trying to ask.
After you belittled me (and still contributed absolutely NOTHING) you went on to ask me a couple questions indicating that you actually did understand what I was getting at. ??? Why all the B.S. then? My reply is: Any of them, do you have any info at all? If it would help you to contribute to the conversation I'll try being more specific, I'll probably purchase an iMac. ??? Does that help?
I noticed you've made something like 3700 posts Tallest Skil. Are they all like this? Seems like a monumental waste of time. You're sarcasm might be better received if you actually had something to say and shared some info. Good luck champ, you'll need it.
The "G3" was the third-generation of Power Macintosh computers. This family used IBM's PowerPC 750 family of microprocessors. PowerBooks and iMacs that used processors in this family were also known as "G3." Interestingly, the term PowerBook
has nothing to do with PowerPC
. The PowerPC was a single-chip implementation of IBM's RISC-based POWER architecture. All of Apple's laptops prior to the iBook were PowerBooks. The first PowerBook was the 68000-based Macintosh PowerBook 100 released in 1991. The first Power PC-based PowerBook was the Macintosh PowerBook 500 with PowerPC released in 1995. But, I digress.
The G4 was a group of Apple computers that were based on Motorola's PowerPC 7400 family of microprocessors. It ran hot, but its power increase over the G3 was worth it. The G5 was a group of Power Mac towers and iMac all-in-ones that were based on IBM's PowerPC 970 family. These processors ran HOT!. Each PPC 970 processor required a custom-mated cooling module.
For this reason, it was not possible to develop a PowerBook G5. Steve Jobs demanded that IBM address the heat problem. IBM refused. Unfortunately for IBM, Intel had just solved the heat problem with its own processors. Jobs switched Apple from PowerPC to Intel.
Having abandoned the PowerPC, Apple also abandoned the word Power
for its systems. Its laptops are now MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Its towers are now Mac Pros. It continues to use iMac and Mac mini.
For its part, IBM continues to use and develop the POWER architecture. I can only dream of what could have been if Apple used a microprocessor version of the POWER7®.