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1.7GHz Powerbook G4s before the Intel Switch?

New Powerbooks

File this under: Rumor / I doubt it.

Tom's Hardware is reporting that Freescale Semiconductor, the people behind the chips in the current line of PowerBooks, began showing off the MPC7448, their latest high-performance PowerPC processor, which is "expected to offer speeds from 600 MHz to 1.7 GHz with the system bus running up to 200 MHz."

What do you think? Is there a chance of a 1.7GHz iteration of the PowerBook G4 before the switch over to PowerBook Mactels? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

[via O'Grady's Powerpage]