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Yes, I would buy it.

5 (38.5%)

Yes, I will support a kickstarter G4 quad movement.

5 (38.5%)

Yes, but for casual OS X enhacement, OS9 would take no better than dual.

2 (15.4%)

Yes, my G4 Dual >1.42 is getting slow

0 (0%)

No, It would take no sense for my software/hardware equipment

0 (0%)

No, my G4 Dual >1.5 is enought

0 (0%)

No, I prefer spend my money on Dual 1.42 module for my MDD

0 (0%)

No, It has no sense with my G4 100MHz bus

0 (0%)

No, I prefer to buy ANOTHER G4 to have a "quad" G4

0 (0%)

No, It should be more expensive than 4 good G4 dual

1 (7.7%)

Total Members Voted: 8

[Protools5LEGuy]

After Aprils Fools Day    Let's especulate about Freescale making a "Quad" G4 using  2 7448 dual cores on a cpu module with 8 Mb L3 cache.
 
Even if OS9 barely could use the second one. 

I allowed 2 votes per user and let the user to change the vote, but I encourage poll users to write why you vote at, and why you change your vote   

Just for fun.

[Protools5LEGuy]

We have https://www.kickstarter.com/start 
We are now 330 members! All G4 users/fanboys are not here. Some are "Die Hard" OSX, probably most. 

Do the math : 500 users supporting with 10 bucks everyone is 5000$. Enought to pay some technicians 3 weeks, a lawyer and Freescale especialist.

In a month we could be reserving our cpu module board for 150 $ or 180 €. 

OWC should have it on catalog on Q4 2014.   

[supernova777]

april fools   

[Protools5LEGuy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_e600
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC7448
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8641D
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8640
http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1054696

When the last cpu module for G4s was designed? I think were 7447 and 7448 cpus.

The MPC8641D is dual core L1: 32kB I/D L2: 1MB with ECC, Dual e600 Power Architecture core, up to 1.5GHz each, 2.3MIPS/MHz and can get Dual 64b DDR2, up to 600MHz with ECC.

This 8641D is dual core and noone has made a cpu module with it

[Protools5LEGuy]

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/taxonomy.jsp?code=MPC8XXX7XXX
Says that 7447 and 7448 has cpu socket FCBGA 360, and the "news" ones FCBGA 483, 783, 994 and 1023
All them have e600 and e500 core

[Protools5LEGuy]

http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/freescale-and-missing-plane-from.html

This cpu module can be a tribute to all that desapeared plane people

[IIO]

you can have 4 G4 processors in a 933 but putting 3 powercore cards in it.

[Protools5LEGuy]

you can have 4 G4 processors in a 933 but putting 3 powercore cards in it.

If  you put this freescale proc with 4 powercore would be an octa core...
 

[MacTron]

you can have 4 G4 processors in a 933 but putting 3 powercore cards in it.

The PowerCore don't have a Power PC G4. It only have a MPC8245 (Integrated Host Processor with Integrated PCI) with a 603e processor core at 200-300 Mhz.
We can call it G2, more or less, LOL

[IIO]

you could go back to a 9600 then you can add 6 powercore cards.

first komputah with hexa G2 PPC.

[MacTron]

you could go back to a 9600 then you can add 6 powercore cards.

first komputah with hexa G2 PPC.

... and 24 Motorola 56K DSPs! wow!  LOL