<sarcasm> Well, it would come quite handy in the winter. In Hungary natural gas is used primarily for heating, and with the current tendencies in oil (and this way natural gas) prices it will be cheaper to buy and run a couple of PowerStations, than to continue using natural gas :-D </sarcasm>

I think the idea is that anyone who had a dual-processor Mac G5 or one of the lower end Quad G5 systems, can buy this and get the very top end possible.

That assumes that it isn't $4000 for a base system (it shouldn't be, but I bet it will be more money than anyone here is willing to spend on it) and all the customers have a problem buying Mac G5 systems on eBay or through refurb companies so much so that they need a brand new system that won't run MacOS..

If PowerPC hardware are available, MacOS will run on it. That's what I'm hoping.
Sie MacOS x86.

You're hoping for Apple to continue the upgrades for MacOS X/ppc? You're very optimistic :)

Leopard should be the last PowerPC-compatible Mac OS.

I don't think Snow Leopard will run on PowerPC.

They list both Multi-core and 64-bit as major features.
The most sold PowerPC-CPU for Mac (G4) is neither..

They've posted information now (though none on power consumption): http://terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ ... down.shtml

It is the same CPUs as the G5 Quad (2 x 2.5 GHz 970MP), but the rest of the hardware is substantially better. There are serial SCSI hard drives, serial console support, DDR2-667, and HT2000 instead of HT1000 southbridge.

Given that, it is actually fairly reasonably priced ($1895 US), especially considering that it comes with a 70 GB SAS drive, which is several hundred dollars alone. This is out of my budget, but substantially cheaper than the G5 Quads on eBay.

Exactly. Why would anyone need SAS given the speed of current SATA 2 drives? It also increases cost substantially. If they left it as an optional addon and included SATA it would seriously take the price down down to $1500 perhaps (sans disk+controller).

My guess is that IBM is going to sell remaining stock of unsellable IntelliStation Pro series this way. And SAS drives are just there...

Karel

" Power requirements 220/110V A/C; 815 Watt 12V bulk power supply"

Now THAT is a powerful PSU..

@ironfist:

PowerMac had 1000 Watt.

That is really extreme..

Who has said such a thing??? I'm talking about a hack like the osx86project.
Any further OS X revisions won't support PowerPC for sure.

Oh, and the PowerStation is the IBM prototype:
http://blemings.org/hugh/blog/blosxom.c ... #20080610a

Interesting, anyway "it's a limited production run" so let's hurry up to purchase one... :-)

Karel

ill wait for something a little more efficient :)

>ill wait for something a little more efficient :)

Unfortunately, P.A. Semi's PWRficient is out of the picture.