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Today, the Steve will announce:

Jan 9, 2006 8:56PM PST

3.5 Ghz Pentium powered PowerBooks
2.5 Ghz Pentium powered iBooks
2.0 Ghz Pentium powered Mac Mini
All the above machines will be capable of booting Windows or OS X, simultaneously. They will not be 64bit machines.

or

He won't

P

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Stupid questions ...
Jan 9, 2006 10:46PM PST

I'm ashamed to say I don't know but is the current G4 and G5 chips 64 bit chips?

Do you know about chip set/bus speeds?

I still wish apple had gone AMD !

grim

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I was making that stuff up
Jan 10, 2006 4:39AM PST

The powerbooks got moved to Intel Duo Core processors as did the iMacs.
Poor old iBooks remained with the G4 as did the Mini.
So much for all the rumors and cold hard facts.

The G5 is 64 bit but the G4 is not. According to the Steve, the iMac Duo Core runs at least 3 times faster than its G5 counterpart. WOW!

MacBook Pro will run up to 5 times faster than the G4 PowerBook.

No other tech information regarding Chip set/bus speeds or even if it will run Windows.

Guess Bob will be getting the laptop for his boy now

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(NT) (NT) And they all have Firewire!
Jan 10, 2006 4:40AM PST
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You betcha.
Jan 10, 2006 5:26AM PST

Having owned dual CPU machines on and off for years, it will shine on video processing and more.

It's not something I need to do for months but at least Job's work is done.

Bob