Talk:PowerPC 7xx

message: I took the freedom to make a major overhaul of the article. I felt is was sorely lacking in information and was incorrect in some places. I fashioned it after the PowerPC G4 article. I hope you enjoy it. -- Henriok 23:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overhaul 

message: While it was announced with a top speed of 1.0Ghz, and you can still find this top speed mentioned in some IBM documents, there was a 1.1 GHz 750gx released later. The main page about the 750GX on IBM's site  mentions a top speed of 1.1 GHz. Further proof is that PowerLogix is shipping an upgrade card with a 1.1 GHz 750Gx.
So I fixed the error, I felt like some explaining was needed.
: It does indeed say 1.1 GHz on the page you linked, but nowhere in the marketing materials and documentation, afaik. But 1.1 GHz it says so the change is good. -- Henriok 12:27, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  750GX top speed is 1.1 GHz not 1.0 GHz 

message: 1. If Broadway is a variant of the G5, what's it doing on this page?
2. Is Broadway really likely to be a variant of the G5? The "citation" is an unusually poor Ars article claiming it must be "because it was offered as a laptop version of the G5". There's no apparent evidence it was offered in that form, other than uncited rumours, and the current consensus, if there is one, is that this CPU runs at 729MHz, which would be a hard sell as a replacement to the G4s in recent PowerPC based laptops, even allowing for there being multiple versions.
I don't think the evidence cited is trustworthy, it's rumour based and contradicts pretty much everyone else. 208.152.231.254 16:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hannibal's latest article doesn't bring any more hard facts regarding Broadway. 750CL seems to be a speed bumped Gekko, but that's just circumstantial evidence regardning Broadway. Nothing more than what we alredy _know_. But since Hannibal retracted his previous non-G3 guess, our only source at this moment is that it is indeed a G3 based processor, just like Gekko, most certainly based on 750CL (if it's not actually a 750CL). We haven't any other sources, and even if this one is unconfirmed by IBM or Nintendo, it is still a source. Is i OK to put Broadway back into the article at this point? -- Henriok 22:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broadway 

message: I'd like to propose a rename of this page. "G3" was the codename for this family processors and Apple used it in its marketing, neither case should have any bearing on what this page is called. The proper name for this article shoule be something like "PowerPC 750", "PowerPC 75x" or "PowerPC 750 family".
I'd like commets on the suggested names, and other variations are welcome. I also will make the same proposition regarding the PowerPC G4 article, with the same argumentation. Please comment there too. -- Henriok 11:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree with this. Right now PowerPC 750 redirects to PowerPC G3 which is incorrect - the G3 was a marketing label used for only some of the parts of the different lines discussed here. It would make sense to redirect entries like PowerPC G3, PowerPC 745, PowerPC 750GX, etc to PowerPC 750 since it's simple and was the first chip in the family. You have my vote. Trollaxor 21:25, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename 

message: My understanding is that PPC 740/750 was basically a 603e with reworked and enlarged cache structure.  It does explain how G3 upgrades for the PowerBook 1400 and 2400 functioned.  Pinout is the same as well, I believe.
--Flightsoffancy (talk) 23:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: G3 an upgrade to PC 603e?