MacCentral meldt dat er mogelijk een multiprocessing G4 wordt gedemood op de Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in mei. SMP wordt op dit moment niet ondersteund door (Mac)OS 9 en het is daarom aannemelijk dat de G4 SMP dozen pas na de lancering van MacOS X (ergens deze zomer) leverbaar worden:
Will the long rumored multiprocessing Mac make an appearance at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in May? Could be. There are some tantalizing tidbits on the WWDC Web pages that point to the possibility.At the Web site for the hardware track session, it says attendees will "learn what you can do to benefit from the advantages of Velocity Engine and multiprocessing." The session promises to show "how threading improves your application's performance on both OS 9 and OS X, on uniprocessors today and multiprocessors in the future." What's more, the hardware track promises "demonstrations of how fast applications can go using Velocity Engine, MP, and both together."
WWDC 2000, which is obviously for developers and not the general public, runs from May 15-19 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA.