Powerbook G5's

Nah, foget car batteries, lets use hydrogen fuel-cells with electric-pump driven liquid cooling and, as you suggested Chevy, a fan-forced radiator on the back of the screen.

With a hydrogen fuel cell, all you'd need to do is pick up a hydrogen cylinder (like an aerosol) from the supermarket every few months, plug it into the side when you need to charge up. Just a quick squirt, and you're good for another 20 hours of cable-free computing. Fast, easy and enviro friendly!
 
As awsome as that would be, how consumer freindly would it be. Plus how big would the fuel cell inside the powerbook need to be, remember, us mac people love small and fashionable stuff. :)
 
Irony. Webster's says: "A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts
a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the
literal sense of the words."
 
Well, Symphonix, Chevy and others were being ironic when talking about 'alternative energy sources' for G5 PowerBooks. You kinda seemed to take them seriously, so I 'explained' irony. Hope it wasn't too offensive...
 
What Fryke is saying is that many of us, including myself, are being ironic.

I am well aware that, for the next few years at least, we won't be seeing hydrogen fuel cells in consumer products. The technology is in place and can even be used to power mobile phones now, the fuel cell being about the size of a AA battery, however until the infrastructure is in place, where people can pick up the refuelling canisters at any supermarket, corner store or petrol station - and until we work out a few other details such as aircraft safety - we won't be seeing them in laptops and mobiles. It will happen eventually, though.

My comments were meant in jest, perhaps as a release for the frustrations of some of the totally unfounded rumours flying around the boards this past week. I assume Zammy-Sam and Chevy are both joking as well.

Back to the original comment about IBM's Antares processor: there has been no confirmed source on this rumour, and the incredibly detailed reports we've been seeing on the rumour sites may well be invented. The "Documents" cited by eWeek and ThinkSecret have yet to surface and IBM has not made any announcement regarding Antares.
Somehow, people posting to the forums recently have read this as "Confirmed: Apple is going to buy MTV and turn it into a system where you can download video clips to your wristwatch and it'll probably be liquid cooled and have a woodgrain finish."
OK, that was probably too sarcastic, but the speculation this week really has been ridiculous.
 
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