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PowerPC G5: The World's First 64-Bit Desktop Processor
White Papers Best of all, the PowerPC G5 runs 32-bit code, including existing Mac OS X applications natively, so the transition to 64-bit power is absolutely seamless. The G5 processor has made its debut in the Power Mac G5, the world’s fastest personal...
[March 12, 2004, 23:04]
Performance Characterization Of HP ProLiant DL360 G5 With Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors (3.16 GHz/2x6 MB) In A 64-Bit HP Server Based Computing Environment
White Papers This paper describes a performance characterization performed utilizing the HP 64-bit test harness, which incorporates a Microsoft Office 2003 workload. Test results cannot be compared directly with the results of tests performed using the 32-bit...
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
AMD Turns Big Guns On 64-bit Demo
News AMD is using a game CD running on a self-contained distribution of the Linux operating system to show off the gaming potential of its new 64-bit processor, the Athlon 64. Users who have bought PCs running the Athlon 64 -- one of the first to...
[October 6, 2003, 17:35]
Apple Warned Over 'misleading' Power Mac Speed Claim
News Two other complaints made about the ads -- namely that the PC is "the first with a 64-bit processor" and that the systems built around the G5 "can shatter the four-gigabyte memory ceiling that limits every other PC on earth" -- were not upheld.
[June 11, 2004, 16:35]
Power Mac G5 Proves Popular
News Although the Mac operating system remains 32-bit, Apple said the machines are shipped with a new version designed to take advantage of some of the G5's 64-bit processing abilities. In particular, version 10.2.7 of Mac OS X has math and vector...
[August 19, 2003, 11:25]
New Apple Has Trouble Emulating Windows
News Apple has just started shipping the first two versions of the Power Mac G5, which uses a new 64-bit IBM processor. Adobe Systems has already offered an update to its Photoshop image-editing software, which takes advantage of the 64-bit processor.
[August 28, 2003, 10:50]
Jobs: G5 Power Macs Will Outperform Any Windows PC
News The new Apple desktops will also be capable of running 32-bit software -- the kind found on desktops today -- and 64-bit software, which is used by high-end workstations.bit software can take advantage of more memory, which improves performance...
[June 24, 2003, 9:16]
Apple Warned Over 'misleading' Power Mac Speed Claim
Talkback I think that that Apples G5 clime on the 64 bit processor and that 4gigabites of ram are wrong.first, I see no difference between a workstation and a personal computer when they are priced are the same.
[June 11, 2004, 18:15]
PowerPC G5
White Papers They co-created a PowerPC architecture that could support both 32-bit and 64-bit instructions. The PowerPC G5 is the product of a long-standing partnership between Apple and IBM. Now available in Apple desktop computers and Apple servers, the...
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
New Z/OS Migration Offering Increases Viability Of OS/390-to-z/OS Migration Path For G5/G6 Users
White Papers Then, when a zSeries computing system is brought into the data center, z/OS much like OS/390 2.10 will now have the ability to operate in either 31-bit mode or 64-bit mode. IBM's announcement of the z/OS Bimodal Migration Accommodation Offering...
[March 2, 2004, 11:19]
Apple Warned Over 'misleading' Power Mac Speed Claim
Talkback I really dont care about how they cobble together motherboards and test 64 bit beta Windows versions on their 32 bit machines.nor do I care that macs are slightly more expensive than equivilant pcs (like there even is an equivient pc for a G5.ha...
[June 12, 2004, 4:36]
Fedora To Get PowerPC Support
News Fedora is available in two versions, one for 32-bit x86 processors such as Intel's current Pentium and one for 64-bit x86 chips such as AMD's Opteron. The first 64-bit x86 version began as an outside program, and the PowerPC version followed the...
[February 15, 2005, 12:05]
IBM Strengthens Linux Investment
News IBM as a company views Power4 as their strategic 64-bit processor. They see a real opportunity to make Power4 the preferred 64-bit platform for Linux compared to Itanium, or at least as a competitor on an equal footing," said Illuminata analyst...
[July 15, 2003, 7:51]
Apple Revamps G5 Lines
News The G5 line has featured 64-bit processors for about two years. Apple on Wednesday introduced upgraded models in its Power Mac G5 desktop series. The new Power Mac G5 systems have up to 8GB of 400MHz DDR SDRAM and graphics card support of up to...
[April 28, 2005, 9:00]
Apple Ripe For Power Mac Overhaul
News The chip also will put Apple on track to sell computers that run 64-bit software, the kind of design that's found on today's top workstations. The prevailing view is that Apple will also use (the developer conference) to unveil new hardware -- in...
[June 20, 2003, 15:06]
Mac Cluster Rises In Supercomputing Ranks
News The cluster was assembed from 1,100 dual-CPU Macs using IBM's 64-bit G5 processor. A supercomputer formed of a cluster of Macintosh G5 PCs has inched higher in the list of the world's fastest machines, ahead of all but two rivals -- and its...
[October 31, 2003, 13:10]
Windows XP Professional X64 Edition RC1 Tested
Talkback This is an overview of Windows XP Professional for the 64 bit extension of x86. Mention of Apple? Why? I'm pretty certain that the latest articles on Jaguar/Panther don't mention AMD's x86-64 . Seeing as how there's not a version of Windows for the...
[January 8, 2005, 23:27]
Nvidia Upgrades Software To 64-bit
News Nvidia has released its first graphics drivers that take advantage of the 64-bit processing capabilities of AMD's latest processors; the Athlon 64 and the Opteron. As part of the launch on Thursday of a new set of Windows drivers, called Forceware...
[October 24, 2003, 16:40]
Apple Takes Its RAID To New Heights
News The 1U Xserve server can process at speeds of up to 35 Gigaflops, with its two 64-bit 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 processors. Apple, a relative newcomer to the storage market, has launched a 7 Terabyte RAID system with a price of only £1.14/GB.
[September 14, 2005, 17:40]
Apple Security Patch Takes Out 64-bit Apps
News Apple's most recent security fixes for Mac OS X break support for 64-bit applications in the operating system, a software maker has warned. But the update doesn't just fix security bugs; it also breaks support for 64-bit applications in the...
[August 18, 2005, 9:10]
