Great to see Motorola's back on track again!!!

[strobe]

The whole 'G' business isn't Motorola's or IBM's idea anyway. The G4 is really a G3. The core didn't change like it did from G1 to G2 to G3.

The fabled G5 is even more vaporous than AOS4 (if that's possible). Supposedly Apple was depending on Motorola to not drop the ball again, but really they haven't even picked up the last ball they dropped. I don't believe the G5 ever existed beyond the dry marker phase, if that. You can mark it at AOS5 level on the vapor scale.

See forums.appleinsider.com to cut through the crap.

[Damion]

Interesting site strobe...it's good to hear some
credible information about the 970.

The whole 'G' business isn't Motorola's or IBM's idea anyway. The G4 is really a G3. The core didn't change like it did from G1 to G2 to G3.

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Wrong, the G3 is based on the 603 which was aimed at low power/value market, while the G4 is based on the 604 and 601, but gaining the 603's power management. Apart from the altivec unti, the main difference between a G3 and a G4 is the FP Unit. The G3 has only a single precision FPU, but emulate double precision, while the G4 has the better FPU from the 601/604.