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NivenHuH writes "Bill Noll, an independent photographer, took some interesting pictures of his new PowerMac G5. Talk about Mac Zealot!"
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I know that the fans are supposed to be "super silent", but I would have expected more from Apple. My Athlon XP 2000+ (Palamino, 67W), GeForce4 Ti4200, 3xRAID 7200rpm desktop is cooled by only 3 Panaflo L1a fans (24cfm, 1900rpm). There's a Zalman on the GPU, so no fan there, an Alpha 8045 with a Panaflo on the CPU, a modded PSU with a Panaflo L1a, and a Panaflo L1a case fan. Even with all the fans on full blast, it's quiet, and when I use my motherboards thermal control function, it's nearly silent (the HDDs, which are Samsung SpinPoint P40s - quiet, are quite a bit louder than the fans).
One might wonder why Apple, a company known for industrial design, didn't design a 0 fan or at least 1 fan chassis. Imagine a system where both processors, as well as the PSU, are cooled by a single fan. If anyone can do it, it's either Zalman or Apple.
First,
1: How quiet, exactly, is this 9 fan setup? Is it quieter than the HDDs? If anyone has a G5, could they respond.
2: How quiet is it under load? When you are playing a 3D game or rendering video, does it sound like a jet engine or does it remain quiet and civil.
3: Why exactly did Apple elect a 9-fan setup? Fans are likely the fist part to fail on the computer. Also, as fans age, they get noisier. Do the fans in the G5 stop when they aren't needed or do they continue at a low RPM?
When I saw the first few pictures, I thought it simply looked rendered. The light, the curves, the shading, even the capacitors on the video card look perfect.
That is some awesome photography.
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
but the G5 looks amazing! Apple really did it right and didn't make it look cheap at all. Look at the top end Dell/Alienware/Gateway comptuers, they still look cheap. Amazing pictures and great link.
Do manufacturers make these things so beautiful to cover for the essential failure of the computer revolution? Only a few years ago we were being told we could expect high economic growth for years to come on the back of the ICT revolution and the explosion in computing power and interconnectivity - nobody believes that now.
So a serious question is: do the manufacturers now strive to make these machines more beautiful to mnake us forget that they have failed us. Ok, as someone who has read Marx, maybe I should say, is this an attempt to get us to fetishise the commodity more to make up for our human failure to realise their potential in our service?