Apple Insider is reporting that during the Apple Q1 Conference Call, chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said that getting the G5 processor in a Powerbook will be the "mother of all thermal challenges." Getting the G5 into the new iMacs was a good sign of the progress made thus far. As I was telling one of my friends today, as much as I love the power of the G5s -- boy, those dual processor towers sure can run applications -- I wish IBM and Apple would have prevented some of the heat issues in the initial design, if it was possible. (There are several 64-bit laptops out there, ya know.) There's some talk about liquid cooling for the laptop, but the case is still just too damn enclosed.
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Though 3 months ago he also said that "Apple is not interested in competing in the under $800 desktop market". Obviously, that didn't turn out to be so true.
I think the only thing you can gauge from the analyst call is that putting a G5 in a Powerbook will be hard. By saying it's insanely difficult may convince buyers waiting for it to bite the bullet and buy the current machines.
Oppenheimer did said that in last October,
according to Red Herring. Apple finally threw the "Airport Extreme card included" trump card this time in order to keep those PowerBooks selling, too.
Absolutely a great point.
This is why it's fun to be an Apple fan.
Word breaks (from sometimes unreliable sources) that Apple has hired Asustek & Quanta to make G5 iBooks and Powerbooks. And of course, the whole Apple community goes bezerk like a bunch of cultists.
Could this satrical Apple Product Cycle be more correct?
If this is actually true, then I would have to agree with this Engadget commenter: "It is more likely that they, or better IBM, developed a notebook-G5 from the ground up. Avoiding the heating in the first place, rather than trying to cool it. Like Intel did with the Pentium M." That makes sense, since you wouldn't need so much raw power in a laptop.
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