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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."
That's right. Slashdot has implemented the new policy of denying first post to the trolls by creating an artificially generated Anonymous Coward comment. Enjoy!
The "PowerBooks are coming next Tuesday" rumors were more frequent on rumor sites than SCO stories on Slashdot.
Is this supposed to be ironic?
Um, am I the only one who doesn't get this article.. basically he says:
1. it's possible
2. it's going to take good engineering
3. Here are some details about OS X
Not much of an article. I got all excited thinking they were on the edge of making a G5 powerbook but I feel slighted now.
...to First Post!
I can attest, this person does have far too much time. He came into my office yelling first post, first post, first post!!!! Being that I am his boss, I think this is unacceptable. Anonymously, what a coward!
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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".
Well, yeah! Have any of you seen the heat sinks in the G5? They are absolutely huge making it very difficult to get enough cooling into a tiny space with the current chips. Furthermore, the heat sink size is combined with a rather clever cooling arrangment in the G5 case making for a quiet environment. Even going back to the original G4's the heat sinks were nowhere near the size of the G5's, so we are going to need a G5 chip with much lower heat and power requirements if portable configurations are going to be possible. Dual G4's in laptops though are not out of the question.....
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You uh... Wouldn't happen to have pictures of that would you?
Karma is like sex. I can't remember the last time I had either of them.
poor scumbucket.. sounds like someone needs a nappy.
Oddly this is the same number of worldwide SCO supporters, go figure...
120 character sigs suck. Make it 250.
This is good stuff guys. Pretty much proves what the mental and emotional age of the average /. poster really is... Hordes of little shits that scream "FAG!" at the first sign of miscommunication. Keep it up, you'll single handedly destroy linux like this!
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The pants are on the ground, in a pile, beside my bed. I don't know how the grits got in there though.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
How is the truth flaimbait?
This is a textbook example of how moderators use their privilges not to encourage healthy debate but to censor disliked opinions. Sad
I hate their commercials with claims like "the most powerful personal computer in the world". Maybe they should meet some of the people I know who like to see how many processors & how much ram they can fit in their full size tower running the top of the line everything.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.