Powerbook G5's

H2OSX

H2OSX

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After the anouncment that the new IBM procesor "Antares" is in the works, I keep thinking that it might have uses in a laptop. I was also thinking about cooling issues in the laptop and was wondering if they would find a safe way to use watercooling in a laptop. These are all just speculations, and I realy dont know anything for sure, but if anyone does, please share your info with the rest of us.

My one last question is if anyone knows when it will be comin out. My guess is Macworld in SF this coming year. I think this because 1, they have introduced many products there, 2, they have intoduced other powerbooks and laptops there before, and 3, I've got a gut feeling.

Thanks-
 
the new multicore G5 probably will not be making its way into the PowerBook anytime soon. it'll most likely be for Xserves and PowerMacs. the MC G5 will produce a lot more heat than the standard G5 according to info floating around the net.

as for water cooled notebooks, possibly, but if you look at the water cooling unit for the PowerMac, its HUGE. its basically a radiator, so, i dont know how they would condence such a unit for use in PowerBooks.
 
I personaly think that we can think whatever, because the ppl at apple wont go around revealing seacrets like that even if the powerbook is coming out tommorow.
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
Not even Apple knows when the G5 will make it into a PowerBook:

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2004/04/20040419232454.shtml

We can speculate all we want but it'll all be horrendously wrong, since the one company that can actually put it into a laptop isn't saying anything about when it'll happen.
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I agree. Please no more asking about G5 Powerbooks. No one knows, and no one even has a good guesstimate.

Rather, ask about when the G7 iPads are coming out. I'm sure people will know more about that. :D
 
H2OSX said:
I personaly think that we can think whatever, because the ppl at apple wont go around revealing seacrets like that even if the powerbook is coming out tommorow.
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Very true, however Apple has never, ever, ever said that something is not coming out, and then went ahead and came out with it anyway. If Apple says "It ain't gonna happen," then there's a 100% guarantee that it will not happen.

But, you can go ahead and think what you wanna think, though. Just be warned: it's thoughts like that that incite disappointment with Apple -- people expect Apple to do the opposite of what they say (release some dumbass headless iMac or sell the iPod mini for $50) that makes everyone so damn "disappointed with the keynotes." They just go around expecting too damn much, despite the fact that Apple themselves are in their faces going, "Hey, dumbass! It's ain't gonna happen! STOP THINKING WE'RE GONNA DO IT WHEN WE'VE SAID OVER AND OVER WE'RE NOT GONNA DO IT!"

But, you know, we just can't stop people from thinking whatever they wanna think. So go right ahead. Even when you've been told over and over that it ain't gonna happen from every reliable source there is, you just go ahead and think that.

It sure makes for one hell of an interesting forum, though, doesn't it? Wild, unfounded speculation? 54 threads on crap that Apple said ain't gonna happen... that's exactly what I wanna come to this forum and be presented with.
 
G7 iPads are coming out next Tuesday, Kainjow. Though Apple are thinking of marketing them under the model designation "Thingy".
"Apple presents Thingy. The most powerful Thingy you've ever had in your pocket."
 
Hey yall.

I would have to say water cooled would be the worst choice for the inside of a powerbook to cool the G5 chip (ie. you have a very small car radiator for a very hot chip which equals boiling water because you can't exactly fit a good fan in there!) I saw cooling gel and antifreeze used to liquid-cool amplifiers (talked to a tech at MTX Audio where I worked in the late 90's).

The main problem is there has to be a cool section of the laptop in which to radiate heat. The G5 chip would be just too darn hot inside that small space for this to happen.
 
Actually, the first PowerMac G4 was announced in September 1999, the PowerBook G4 followed in January 2001, so it's rather 'a little over a year' between them.

But this shouldn't lead to any speculation about a PowerBook G5, because they're wholly different chips. (And it _was_ less than a year for the G3 back then...)

With the iMac G5 arriving this September, I guess it won't take Apple more than 3 or 4 months after that to introduce a PowerBook G5. Whether that'll be based on a lower power G5 version than the 970FX, who knows... The multicore 970, however, does _not at all_ seemed to be aimed at mobile computing. Rather at highend desktop and small to medium server computing.
 
Nope. It's using the 2.0 GHz processor, too, which seems to run a bit cooler.
 
You mean the powerbook could look like this?
design_heatb_010604.jpg

That will be a big powerbook. ;)
 
Yes. The Xserves aren't small, they're big. They're not running cool, just 'cool enough' for rackmounting them. And they're not quiet either, they're very, very loud, whereas a PowerBook wants to be virtually silent - at least if it wants to be bought by me. ;-)
 
I don't know, the XServe G5's I played with at WWDC seemed to be fairly quiet, even standing right next to them.

In that picture, eliminate half the ram, two of the hard drives and reduce the last one in size majorly (think iPod size), reduce the size of the powersupply (we have less components, right), and elimiate one CPU.

Its not tiny, but it gets better at least! :)
 
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