powerbook G5..? when?

[fernando.alonso]

I really wonder if there's any rumors about the up-coming (hope at least soon!!!) powerbook G5.
...and what is it going to be made out of? platinum this time?

chears

[Elliotjnewman]

dunno about the G5 Laptop but it would cost $$$ if it was made from platinum. Keep it Ti !!

L.

[Zammy-Sam]

I remember some adds of certain Apple ppl telling it seems darn challenging right now to install a G5 in a powerbook. And seems we won't see a G5 until the end of this year, but Steve always managed to surprise us..
I would appreciate the case to be aluminium like the current ones. Titanium had to be finished and thus it was very sensitive to scratches. My brothers 12'' powerbook is almost one year old by now and still not even one scratch.
And once the G5 powerbooks are out, I am quite sure they won't cost any more than current alubooks. Pretty sure even!

[fryke]

Might also want to look at the PB chip thread - http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44218 - in the macosx.com opinions forum.

I don't see a G5 (not a 970FX, anyway) in a PowerBook this year. However: What 64bit aware applications are you going to use in a PowerBook, anyway? I rather see Apple use an even better G4 processor this Autumn (more battery life at higher clock rate, please?) and a G5 in early 2005 (March or so).

[Ripcord]

Yes, a 1.6Ghz+ G4 would make me interested. At the moment, though, even the fastest Powerbook is just too slow for me to use, my work-supplied 1.4ghz Pentium M is about 50%+ faster for most things than the 1.25ghz books...

Tho I really want to run OS X + other apps!

[ElDiabloConCaca]

No PowerBook this year, like fryke said... I don't ever remember Apple saying, "No," to something and then surprising us with a "Yes." I think if Apple says, "No," it means, "No."

[jonmichael23]

before the end of the year maybe? It would be nice if this happened.........

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I agree -- a G5 PowerBook right now would be nice also, but, I'm sticking to believing Apple at this point. It took them more than a year to get the G4 into a PowerBook, and the G5 is a much different processor with different cooling needs. My first-generation G4's heat sink can fit in the palm of my hand with room to spare -- not so with the G5, whose heat sink and cooling requirements are just too great to stick it in a PowerBook at this point. Plus, if Apple plans on keeping the very slim profile of the PowerBook, it may be the end of NEXT year that we see a G5 in a PowerBook.

We can hope and dream, but we always get slapped in the face by reality. It's like hoping we'll have magnetic levitation or affordable fuel cell cars by the end of December. Just a smidgeon outside the boundaries of reality, but forseeable in the future.