IBM: PowerPC G5 to Go Mobile

[Mac Reporter]

The 64-bit PowerPC G5 processor will undoubtedly be a fixture of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote next week's Worldwide Developers Conference. After all, it's the basis of the company's workstation and server lines. But Mac professionals, and even Linux programmers, will be waiting for word of a mobile version.

According to officials of IBM Corp., the technology for a notebook version of the PowerPC G5, a k a the PowerPC 970 series of processors, may be at hand.

IBM's PowerPC 970 family of microprocessors has quietly become a rarity in the computing world: a one-size-fits-all architecture used for notebooks, desktops and even low-end servers. The chip is based on the company's longstanding POWER architecture, a dual-core processor used in some of IBM's server lines.

Read more at eWeek.com.

[bayonic]

... just a few more months of waiting , I hope ...

hopefully , by that time an affordable 3 CCD HD VideoCamera plus Editing Software will also be available :love: