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I suspect you'll be waiting a while. There's apparently no plans to move the 970 to a .9 micron fab til at least the new year so I'd guess that 970-based laptops will be about a year behind any towers at the earliest.I'll be one of the first in line when the 970-based 15" PowerBooks are released. Power consumption seems to be a problem with these 970s. Apple can't have their Powerbooks lagging behind for TOO long with G4s, while the Power Macs have their beasty 970s.
What makes you say that? There's nothing preventing the PowerPC 970 based Macs from running MacOS X.2.x. The PowerPC 970's after all are just new 64-bit PowerPC chips, they can run PowerPC code just like any other PowerPC chip, whether it's 64-bit or 32-bit code doesn't matter.Damn I just realized they can't ship 'em til Panther is out (expected in September). Oh well I won't try to fudge my guess now...