The Sad Story of the Long-Promised 3 GHz Power Mac G5 – Pixel Envy

The Sad Story of the Long-Promised 3 GHz Power Mac G5 – Pixel Envy

With just a few days to go until WWDC, Stephen Hackett chronicled the history of the mythical 3 GHz Power Mac G5, previewed at the conference over twenty years ago: The heat generated by the G5 would become an issue later on, but first we need to talk about Steve Jobs broke a fundamental rule of Apple: We don’t comment on future products. The Power Mac G5 was before my time as a Mac user, but I remember the otherworldly impression it made on m…

Memories of the Power Mac G5

Stephen Hackett just took a deep dive into the story of the Power Mac G5, which introduced the “cheese grater” design also used by many years of Intel-based Mac Pros. His piece’s title, “The Broken Promise of the 3 GHz Power Mac G5,” is a reference to the infamous guarantee Steve Jobs gave that the G5 chip would reach 3 GHz, which it never did. Instead, Apple switched to Intel. (It wasn’t the only reason—G5 laptops were also seemingly impossible…