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8/17/2K: Intel has announced that the Pentium 4 will hit
2 GHz next year, forcing Apple to completely rethink its
game plan. It's decision: Abandon the G4 except on graphics
workstations.
Working closely with IBM, Apple will adopt the G5
processor, which should be shipping in quantity by Macworld San
Francisco in January 2001. The move validates IBM's long-standing
claim that AltiVec was the wrong way to go in improving chip
performance.
Instead of a souped-up video section coupled with an otherwise
pedestrian 500 MHz or slower CPU, the G5 architecture is
what the G4 should have been all along: an optimized successor to
the G3 with full multiprocessor support (like the 604e and
G4) and a large, fast on-chip cache (like IBM's PowerPC
750CX).
Using IBM's commanding lead in copper chip technology,
the G5 will include a 1 MB cache running at full CPU speed, which
will range from 700 MHz to 1 GHz upon the chip's release. It
will also have less power draw than the G4, making it a candidate
for top end PowerBooks.
Best of all, the G5 "has legs" and will easily reach 2 GHz by
the end of 2001, according to John Doe 14, our unknown (to Apple!)
source on this story.
This means Apple will have three processors in the hardware. The
IBM PowerPC 750CX (G3e) will be used in lower tier models
such as the iBook and iMac, ranging in speed from 533 to 666
MHz and using UMA2 architecture, which includes a 133 MHz system
bus.
The Power Mac G4 will come in dual and quad processor models
using 500 MHz G4 processors on the current Sawtooth
motherboard.
At the top, the Power Mac G5 will ship in single, dual,
and quad processor configurations with 733, 866, and 1,000 MHz
processors on a new 133 MHz UMA2 motherboard. Apple will also have
a PowerBook G5 running at 733 and 850 MHz, as well as a G5
Cube in 866 and 1,000 MHz versions.
Details are sketchy, but there may even be an iMac Special
Edition with a G5 clocked at 666 MHz. Further details remain
unknown.
Motorola was unavailable for comment. Sources at Apple
and IBM refused to comment on this idle speculation.
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Introduction to Autofs in Mac OS X, Keith Winston, Linux to Mac, 07.01.
"Autofs is often used in enterprise environments to set up network-based home directories and other network mounts for users at login."
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