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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."
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Okay... Boot from gentoo CD...
let's get a real os on this awesome piece of hardware.
Karma is like sex. I can't remember the last time I had either of them.
I'm a very happy Apple user having switched a little under half a year ago. But this is such a non-story it shouldn't have even been posted here. There are already CPUs in laptops today that can give the G5 a run for its money. They may not have great battery life, but heat issues have been taken care of. There's nothing unique about the G5 that makes it any more difficult to get into a laptop than any other CPU design. That Apple is talking about a G5 laptop as if it's a big technical deal has me worried. The newly released Powerbooks are already up to half as slow as their Centrino counterparts which sport similar or better battery life. Perhaps the G5 Powerbook won't see the light of day until next fall when the G4 Powerbook will be tremendously outclassed.
What's more frustrating; No road map, or a road map with a dead end?
In Soviet Russia (Or Bushist America) our new G5 overlords welcome you! So says Natalie Portman, naked and petrified with hot grits down her pants. Troll, troll, troll your boat, gently down the stream...or something. Goodness, I must be getting old.
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It was announced today that a class action group of 100 users filed a suit agains Slashdot.com today because they became gay after being exposed to what has been called "the Slashdot Gay Conspiracy."
Experts warn that even exposure to the blatantly homomsexual urges of Rob "Taco" Malda can cause latant gay urges to surface.
Malda commented to reporters: "We like to pull our schlongs... so sue us.. oops, I guess they did."
grub is also a karmawhore (and not funny to boot). Grow a clue and shove it up your ass up there with your mother's dildo collection!
Taco IS IS IS IS the GOATSEX GUY!!
can't you just imagine a beowulf cluster of G5 Powerbooks?
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err, maybe that should be "imagine a cluster of imaginary G5 Powerbooks".
or maybe, "imagine how much heat your lap would be subjected to with a cluster of
ahh, nevermind...
grub has been trying to karmawhore lately with serious comments. Call me an asshat, will you? How about you pull you head out of Hemos' rectum and take a look around, cockbite!
MORON
trying to be serious is whoring? fag.
WHEEE!!! Apple sucks!!!
your mom gives good head when she takes her teeth out. just last night she proceeded to "gum me clean" after I fucked her wrinkly ass with no lube exept for the shit from her shit bag. I give your mom a 7/10.
Being serious on slashdot is the gh3yest thing evAr!!!
but it can still compile KDE3 in a few minutes.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
not as gh4y as fucking your dog up the ass and getting him to lick the sp00g3 off you're dick
Then leave my dog alone you FAG!
you say that becuase your a fag and you know it, fag
your the fag that owns the dog, FAG
shuddup you fucking ass-fucking fucking cock-cobbling fucking
Good eye! Fucking karma whores...
Quit stalking the puppies at the pet store, FAG!
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not right now.... we're worshipping...
Is finding the right mouse button so I can right click and "Save Picture As..."
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Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.
...but right on target; procrastination never solves anything.
Nor doing it as an AC
AC comments get piped to
Apple should save themselves some money and thereby save us some money by just using a better chip. This kernel should be able to run on a g-d damn Sega Dreamcast so why not Transmeta or an AMD laptop chip, hell why not a strong Arm variant.
Apple's chip selection is terrible. They blew it on the Exponential 704. They blew it by using Motorola. They blew it on the G5 (they should have gone right to the Power4 for the money they charge...) Apple needs to resign themselves to the fact that they make a nice interface for Unix and a pretty box. There is no need to do EVERYTHING from scratch. No Mac Nazi is going to stop shelling out for gorgeous thin 17" Laptops because they come with a non-PowerPC processor.
Yeah start saving money but for that sweet P4 Extreme Edition coming soon, not for a laptop that's nothing more than an overpriced toy!
[ NOTE TO SELF: Now I know why I don't read /. ]
The IBM PowerPC 970 was not only designed to be a ~40W, 2GHz (at current fab levels) processor for desktops, but also a sub-20W, 1.2-1.4GHz (at current fab levels) processor for notebooks too!
Apple G5 notebook? Um, yeah, duh, IBM already thought of that too!
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