I had a sneak preview of the Apple G5 last night. They are going to
call it a G8 cause its so powerful.
Photoshop users will love this.
The front panel is designed by Gap and features their new colour trend
beige. For an extra $200, you can get Connolly leather and for an
extra $400 they will remove the plastic handles so the G8 will look
good.
But speed is the big thing. The unit comes with 2 x 500 MHz processors
(for an extra $1,000, they will actually fit 500 MHz processors
instead of 450 MHz).
But wait, there is more. 6 more. There are 6 little slots on the front
where you can plug in extra processors. making 8 in total. That is why
G8!
For an extra $300 you can get a lock to stop people stealing your
extra processors. For $400, you can get a neat set of 'Intel Inside'
stickers to go on the front so no one will want to steal your extra
processors.
With all those processors, you can now have 48 bit colour or 64 bit
monochrome. 48 bit colour means Pantone hexachrome in one hit!
64 bit monochrome means unlimited animation without any extra space.
Each bit can hold a whole animation layer making for a whole 64
seconds of animation without loading another file. Perfect for the
web.
48 bit colour means Apple had to ditch that slaggy old ATI rage chip
and get a real Matrox. The Matrox can bypass the Motorola Velocity
Engine and process direct in 1024 bit MMX.
Of course you will want lots of memory and crowding that in is tough.
Some engineer at Apple solved the whole problem in just 2 steps. He
invented a neat little stamp that replaces the letters Gb with Tb and
a weird clear plastic pipe to drip water direct on the chips. (The
marketing person doing the demo said you currently have to use Evian
to keep the warranty valid but they are working with Coke to bring out
a special Diet Water for the machine.).
I said Photoshop users will love it. Well, you are no longer limited
to one Photoshop. You can run a different Photoshop in every
processor. Each can work on a different layer or a different colour.
Even in the same image!.
Adobe are adding a special extra to let all the Photoshops vote on
which version of the image is best and merge the results based
directly on the votes. The new Photoshop can even work directly with
the 72 bit colour planned for the G9. Oops, I did not say that.
The scribes can order now for delivery 3 weeks before the first
delivery. The Initial Public Offering will be priced at $6,000 above
retail. Ordinary public trash will have to wait the usual 6-12 months.
Just do not pass this on. It is confidential!
Steve
