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G5 PowerBook "Challenge"
CarlBenda writes "MacWorld/UK has some interesting quotes from Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering at Apple concerning the possibility of a G5 powerbook. He's said that a G5 powerbook is "an issue of good, solid engineering" and that "a few years ago, nobody thought it would be possible to get a G4 processor in a PowerBook". Start saving your money."
Start saving your money.
Is that the challenge? To save enough money to buy a Mac? That is going to be tough.
start saving your hydrogen fuel cells to power the notebooks. Duracell lasts 10^-308 seconds on "Power Save" mode.
"With the new Powerbook G5, you'll never find your hands cramping up during long typing sessions again! The CPU/hand warmer keeps you going during even the coldest of temperatures!"
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I got a +5, Troll
Actually, I don't smell them (as in actively seek them out and sniff them -- that's someone else's job), but I ask rhetorically because if previous Apple laptop experience can be any guide, I expect to see more "Laptop burns man's crotch" stories. I saw one or two with their last generation.
As hot as the G4 PowerBooks get, they'll need some hellacious cooling on these things. Maybe they'll come with a string you can use to whirl the PB around your head, like a bullroarer. If it makes that cool sound, it'll be great.
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Yes because a unix based OS like OS X is really crappy.
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Because Apple is suddenly cool these days, and PowerBooks are very very pretty. And shiny. See? Ooh, shiny things.
(I'm pretty sure that's the logic, anyway.)
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> I sold a Vaio R505 that would whine up and down loudly
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Well sure. No one likes whiners. But if Apple could license the Harley-Davidson sound
"an issue of good, solid engineering" and that "a few years ago, nobody thought it would be possible to get a G4 processor in a PowerBook"
Sounds like...."One day, computers will only take up one room in a house and cost under $100,000" the old Popular Science quote.
Easy, Microsoft didn't do anything today, the RIAA didn't issue any new dumb press releases and SCO ran out of people to sue.
Well of course not! Don't be silly! And 640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone!
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I am not sure that my Performa was cool.
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I was already saving for a G4 powerbook. Now I have to start saving for a G5 powerbook. At this rate I will own a powerbook when the sun is a cold, dark lump of coal. Great business model, Apple.
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Their computers have always been cool. Well, originally they were very cool, but for a while they were just sorta cool, and then when they moved to PowerPC they got very cool again, but when they couldn't get the G4 past 500 Mhz for a couple of years that wasn't too cool. Anyway, the OS mostly wasn't cool at all through OS8 and OS9, and it's only been since OSX that the software and hardware has come together to make computers that are totally cool again.
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I'm a very happy Apple user having switched a little under half a year ago.
Not true.
But this is such a non-story it shouldn't have even been posted here.
True.
There are already CPUs in laptops today that can give the G5 a run for its money.
Not true.
They may not have great battery life, but heat issues have been taken care of.
Not true.
There's nothing unique about the G5 that makes it any more difficult to get into a laptop than any other CPU design.
Not true.
That Apple is talking about a G5 laptop as if it's a big technical deal has me worried.
Not true.
The newly released Powerbooks are already up to half as slow as their Centrino counterparts which sport similar or better battery life.
Not true.
Perhaps the G5 Powerbook won't see the light of day until next fall when the G4 Powerbook will be tremendously outclassed.
You can hope, you pointless troll.
What? You bought the product of a computer company, only to find out that a short time later, the company releases a new! improved! product? I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you. That is totally unexpected behavior! It never happens.
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OK. While I'm a big Apple advocate and an Apple owner, I must take exception to the statement that Apple has always been "cool."
My G4 is not cool. It heats up the flippin' room. My cat curls up behind the fan vent like there was a crackling fire behind the grille.
Before that, my 604e/180 dualie cranked out more heat than your average BLU-118/B thermobaric-tipped ordinance.
Great machines, yes. Cool, no.
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P.s. If you think the G5 "Looks nice" you must have just had a stroke.
Hey man, what have you got agaist cheese graters?
The new G5 features the Remington Microscreen. Apparently, Steve Jobs was so impressed, he bought the company!
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I think it's fair to say that Apple will have a G5 powerbook before Amiga. But at least Apple G4 owners can no longer gloat to C-64 owners about their broadband capability....
This may very well be the stepping stone we need to finally bridge the laptop/stove gap.
With the heat put out from this bad boy, you'll be able to cook a meal within the confines of your cubicle WHILE remaining productive. Talk your co-workers into buying one and everyday lunch can be a cookout.
I'll take two!
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
I hope that apple will soon discover that a mouse can have more than a single button...
Those trackpads with only a button are a pain under *nix
For the record, I have nothing against Apple. In fact, I post from a 15" Ti PowerBook (no - not one of the swank new ones with the 802.11g, regrettably) which is my favorite computer to work on.
/. reader that you were a huge fan of Apple was like saying that you really, really enjoyed weird fetish videos. The best you could hope for was a nervous grin and a "how nice for you," but inside you know the guy was thinking. "why does this loser get of on this?"
You have to admit, though, that pre OS X, telling your average
Ah, but C64 owners can gloat about having 64 kilobytes, while G5 owners are stuck with just 64 bits.
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$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
The Apple Macintosh G5 Powerbook codename Powerbake!
64 bit computing with the best Unix powered GUI OS in the world with Mac OS X Pussycat! The successor to the highly acclaimed Mac OS X Panther!
And it'll even cook your food for you! Trust us, just put an a filet mignon on it and you'll have a steak in no time!
Sounds like the Osborne Portable Computer would be perfect for you!