Talk:Power Mac G5
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Apple no longer uses the "Macintosh" trademark to describe it's products. No model since the Power Macintosh G3 has borne that name. The correct name, at least as far as Apple Marketing is concerned, is Power Mac. That, therefore, is the correct terminology for this article. -Astrovan
- Folks no longer make with the "it's" misspelling to write out the ownsome of it. No one but unreadfuls hold to that word. The straight word, at least as far as English-speakers are mindful, is its. That, therefore, is the straight wording for this talk. lysdexia 04:43, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Dude, this is a talk page, not a doctoral dissertation. I made a typo. It happens. And, for the record, you should have a comma after "folks." Or something like that.-Astrovan
G5 not the first "desktop-class computer" to "implement 64-bit technology"
I removed the following sentence:
- This processor is the first "desktop-class computer" to implement 64-bit technology; the AMD Opteron shipped as a 64-bit computer several months before, and DEC Alpha created a 64-bit chip in 1994.
Because it is not factually correct. See, at the very least, the MIPS Magnum (with particular reference to the Magnum 4000-PC model, marketed to run Windows NT Workstation around 1994) or DEC Jensen motherboard with EISA slots and the Alpha 21064 CPU, also sold to run Windows NT in 1994. Moreover, all MIPS-based computers of at least R4000 vintage, such as the SGI Indy (or the even earlier SGI Iris Indigo with a R4000 processor) are fully 64-bit in every sense that the G5 is today, since at least 1990 when the R4000 was released. Most would describe the Indy as a "desktop-class" machine, and even the later Sun Ultrasparc systems were 64-bit by the mid-1990s. --Ryanaxp 23:21, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
