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 Would you buy it?

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%)

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Offline Protools5LEGuy

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Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« on: April 04, 2014, 08:12:42 PM »
After Aprils Fools Day  ;D  Let's especulate about Freescale making a "Quad" G4 using  2 7448 dual cores on a cpu module with 8 Mb L3 cache.
 -afro- ;D
Even if OS9 barely could use the second one.  8)

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  >:(  ;D

Just for fun.
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2014, 08:25:15 PM »
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.    ::)

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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2014, 09:16:56 PM »
april fools  :'(  -afro- -afro-
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2014, 07:37:52 AM »
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
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2014, 07:45:17 AM »
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
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2014, 07:56:09 AM »
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
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2014, 03:55:33 PM »

you can have 4 G4 processors in a 933 but putting 3 powercore cards in it.
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2014, 04:19:45 PM »
Quote from: 110 on June 23, 2014, 03:55:33 PM

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...
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2014, 05:15:05 PM »
Quote from: 110 on June 23, 2014, 03:55:33 PM

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
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2014, 05:44:00 PM »
you could go back to a 9600 then you can add 6 powercore cards.

first komputah with hexa G2 PPC.
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Re: Would you buy a new Freescale cpu module with Quad Core for your G4?
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2014, 06:05:39 PM »
Quote from: 110 on June 23, 2014, 05:44:00 PM
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
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