Steve's nieuwe iBook wordt voortgekacheld door een speciale koperen versie van de G3 processor, zo schrijft News.com in dit nieuwsbericht:
The new iBook laptop uses a specially designed low-power copper chip from IBM to achieve its "all-day" battery life that Apple Computer interim chief executive Steve Jobs described when he introduced the product at the Macworld conference yesterday in New York.
The 300-MHz chip is an "optimized" version of the PowerPC 750 processor, according to sources familiar with the iBook's internal hardware. The chip's circuit "interconnects" are based on copper, a technology that IBM has used in its 32-bit processors since the fall of last year. Thirty-two bits generally refers to the size of a piece of data that a chip can digest in a single "clock cycle." [break]In het artikel ook nog een regeltje info over een 1GHz PowerPC:[/break] IBM expects PowerPC chips running at 1 GHz (1,000 MHz) to be shipping in samples in 2000 and in computers in early 2001. These are targeted at its RS/6000 line of workstations and servers.
Ik quote uit een mailtje dat ik van Tinker kreeg: "Het lijkt wel een moderne wafelrooster!" Inderdaad 
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