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Old January 8th, 2004, 09:59 AM
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From what I understand they are looking at non-airflow related cooling for a G5 powerbook. Most likely some type of liquid cooling system. Another issue is producing a low power version, otherwise your battery will last around 5 minutes. And, yes they did make the Xserve that is only 1U, but it is longer, and wider then a laptop, and most of all, it's connected to 120/220V power.

My bet is there won't be a PPC970 based G5 laptop, but probably a seperate low power PPC chip that IBM is supposedly working on. My bet is it will be announced end of 2004, and actually start shipping in 2005.

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Apple announced the Xserve G5 on Tuesday, which isn't a lot bigger than the Powerbooks.
What?! Have you seen an XServe?! They're HUGE! The only thing small about them is their height... but width and depth are tremendous! MUCH MUCH bigger than even the 17" PowerBook!
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