Leaked G5 specs + OS 10.3 'Panther' screenshots

[bluecell]

The Apple Store (http://store.apple.com) inadvertently leaked details of the upcoming 64-bit PowerMac G5s sometime Thursday night, making a lot of Mac users, including myself, very happy. It's too bad that someone is most likely out of a job now.

Anyway, here's the leaked image with some of the new specs taken from the Apple Store's website:

http://macteens.com/images/uploads/step1bullet1powermac.gif

Mmmm!!!!!

Some screenshots (http://www.deskmod.com/panther) of Apple's new OS, codenamed 'Panther,' has been leaked onto the web as well. I can vouch there authenticity, having already seen them some time ago. The new OS will be previewed on Monday at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, where I'll be in attendance. In case anyone wants a glimpse of the Mac's future, you can check out the delayed stream of the keynote Monday afternoon here (http://stream.apple.akadns.net/). You'll need QuickTime (http://www.apple.com/quicktime) to view it.

[bluecell]

A position just opened up at Apple.
Title: Web Publishing Manager WW Apple Store
Req. ID: 1978437
Location: Santa Clara Valley, California
Country: United States

Summary
Function supports the World Wide Store management team and the 2+Billion online business. The position manages day to day publishing requirements such as image updates, third party loads, pricing changes, new feature enhancements, application improvements and application testing. Position also supports product launch deadlines, managing graphic and business resources to achieve business objectives. The job includes the ability to manage resources, prepare appropriate documentation based on business requirements, delegate tasks to team members, effectively and clearly communicate project status and manage project risk. Project Manager will have direct reports and is responsible for coordinating with world wide counterparts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The essential duties of this position include:
* Manage day to day publishing requirements as well as ongoing product launch activities
* Use management techniques to maximize team performance through effective motivation tools, counseling Motivation, team, optimizing performance, scheduling,
* Identifies and manages to major project milestones and communicates project status on a regular basis
* Conducts weekly project meetings with cataloging, graphics and store management teams
* Responsible for ensuring accountability to the resolution of key issues.
* Prioritize and delegate key project tasks to team members
* Meets with business owners to develop effective merchandising plans for stores
* Provides the customers with alternatives when key problems surface on the project
* Writing formal business requirements documents for projects/enhancements. works with management to prioritize development projects
* Act as a liaison between the business and technology to ensure business project needs are adequately met with technology solutions

Minimum Qualifications
* Proven ability to manage to deadlines
* Excellent communication, leadership and ecommerce skills
* Ability to maintain and develop relationships within the project team
* Ability to develop new strategies and options for new projects
* Understanding of the business processes as needed by the project
* Excellent organizational and documentation skills
* Demonstrated flexibility and ability to work in a dynamic and unpredictable work environment

Education and/or Experience
* BA/BS, MBA or MS degree preferred, 5-7 years business experience preferred
* Experience in electronic commerce sales environment required
* Experience managing direct reports and cross functional teams.
* Their work product is of the good to excellent quality and needs minimal review by their management.
* Ability to build and maintain business relationships and monitor customers perceptions of the deliverables
* Keeps up with market and industry trends, emerging technologies.Apple job posting (https://jobs.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Employment.woa/wa/jobDescription?RequisitionID=1978437)

[drunkturkey]

With those speeds, how can they claim that its the worlds fastest personal computer??!?

[fcuknu]

they beat the intel and athlons benchmarks. Just because the pentium says its a 3.0 ghz dosent mean its quicker than the g5 2 ghz. The new g5 has a fsb on 1ghz, most pentiums have 512 fsb.

http://a864.g.akamai.net/7/864/51/722ee0224b5f55/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indexspecchart06232003.jpg

(”World’s fastest” based on SPEC® CPU 2000 benchmark results and leading professional application performance tests against 3 GHz Pentium 4-based Dell Dimension 8300 and 3.06 GHz Dual Xeon-based Dell Precision 650. SPEC® CPU 2000 benchmarks run with GCC 3.3 and independently tested, full report available from Veritest; professional applications tested by Apple, June 2003.)

[bluecell]

Originally posted by drunkturkey
With those speeds, how can they claim that its the worlds fastest personal computer??!? The chips have fewer stages to go through than the CISC-based x86 chips. They're much more efficient than all of the Pentiums, Xeon and Athlons, partly because of the PowerPC's architecture.