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Does Apple’s move to Intel mean PCI-Express for the rest of us?
Many who concern themselves with the current graphics/GPU market know that the new rage is SLI (albeit this has been around since 3dfx days). Yet, with the power and low cost of most “prosumer” graphics cards, an SLI interface is a definate benifit when concerning oneself with digital media compression and encoding. The question remains, will Apple scrap their current PCI-X bus and offer Intel’s PCI-express technology to its customer base, thereby allowing all of us FCP fiends to finally take advantage of the newer nVidia cards with SLI?
Of course, with the final transition to Intel complete by 2007 one can only speculate on the types of GPU technology that we’ll see then.
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Of course, with the final transition to Intel complete by 2007 one can only speculate on the types of GPU technology that we’ll see then.
=====That’s the big catch to all this speculation. The first Intel Macs next year will probably be laptops and Mac Minis. By the time the Pro machines get converted we’ll be, like you said, far beyond whatever you know now.
We’ll just have to wait and see, but yes, one of the main reasons for this switch was the desire to make Apples the best computers available, so your guesses are probably pretty accurate.
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In my opinion it is likely you will see PCI-Express G5. I don’t think Apple will wait that long.
The last G5 in my opinion will be SATA 2, PCI-E and DDR 2. -
[MPE] “The last G5 in my opinion will be SATA 2, PCI-E and DDR 2”
I wonder if I am currently using the last G5. The one thing I have seen NO information on lately is what happens with the pro hardware between now and when the move to Intel is complete. Will we ever see a dual 3Ghz G5? How about a quad G5? I’m not so sure. My dual 2.0s and 2.5 are going to begin to feel slow if I can’t upgrade them before late 2007….
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Jobs is clear that new models are in the horizon. I think you will get 2 at most 3 more speed bumps. Probably 3 GHz in the fall and 3.2 – maybe even 3.6, by the next WWDC. That in my opinion will be the last.
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