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G5 in an iMac
babbage writes "I recently bought a Power Mac G5, and when I registered it with Apple, I was offered a free subscription to MacWorld. When signing up for the subscription, one of the questions you're asked is which Apple product you purchased most recently, and one of the items on the list was 'iMac G5.' Does the MacWorld marketing department know something that the rest of us don't?" Maybe they had seen the page that incognito writes about: "Over at AppleFritter, there's an awesome mod that changes an ordinary iMac into a mini version of the aluminum G5 tower. There were lots of details in the creator's work that leads to a very polished final product."
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http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2004/05/20040510
The current (official) name for the iMac is "iMac G4", to differentiate from the original G3-based iMac, so the typo probably happened with that number right next to the 4.
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this story has been mentioned several times at rumor sites, such as MacRumors (www.macrumors.com). it's a typo. it was there when G5 was announced for a PowerMac - no way iMac G5 was even a thought back then.
G5 iMac will happen sooner or later, perhaps WWDC next month. but there's nothing here... it's simply a typo.
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I'm sure an XServe has less concern about fan noise. The Cobalt RAQ I once used has a 1RU form factor, and no fan on the (900MHz) CPU. It made up for that by having a bank of small fans that ran very fast and very loud. You can do that in rack equipment, but you can't generally do the eqivalent thing in a desktop.
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The article shows a G3 in a Powermac-style mini case, not a G5 in an iMac. An impressive hardware hack, but not a G5.
Even if you selected iMac G5, they'd never know it, since it is the same value as Other.
The last time I registered a new computer (2 months ago), the same survey had the same error.
The G5 puts out a LOT less heat than a comparably-equipped Pentium 4 chip.
The reason we don't have the G5s in everything is that it takes a lot of time to design, fab, and test motherboards for Apple's designs. Also, the 970FX is coming soon, and it's much cooler than the straight 970, so there's no rush to move to the current series of CPU.
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You're kidding, right? Every G5 I've used was incredibly quiet, much more so than my G4 tower. Unless the side of the case is off and the fans turn to full, my impression of these computers has always been that they are very quiet.
According to Babelfish, it just seems to be a tech news site parroting a rumor. Here's the Babelfish version of the article, with mild corrections where I can [in brackets]:
So, nothing to see here, no "codes" to break... :-/
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If your G5 sounds like a jet engine there's something wrong with it.
check out http://www.appleturns.com/scene/?id=4458 appleturns.com did a story on this back in January.
The eMac isn't the type of computer I'm talking about - it's got a built-in screen, and is large and heavy.
I'm not saying it isn't near the price range that a headless cheap mac would need to be in, but it isn't quite there. I've sold several of them, but the problems with the eMac are:
1. it's not headless. If there's a screen/analog board failure, the entire computer goes down. And screen/analog board failures are not nearly rare enough on eMacs. It's one of the most common warranty repairs we do at the Apple dealer where I work.
2. it's not headless. the screen adds to the cost of the system, and some people like to be able to upgrade components without having to replace an entire computer.
3. it has NO internal expansion capability. This isn't a problem for some users, but it would be nice for others to be able to add one or two PCI cards, and maybe a second hard drive.
4. it's not easily serviceable. I've been inside enough of them to know this firsthand.
5. it's just not cheap enough. Dell offers a configuration at $499 - yeah, it's garbage, but it's there. Apple REALLY needs to have something at that price point, even if it's a G3 with a CD-ROM drive and 17" external CRT.
Apple's biggest problem at this point is marketshare - to get developers to the platform.
You don't have to tell me about the lower TCO - I've seen it firsthand, I won't sell wintel, and I don't like having to service it. (I won't touch wintel if I'm not already in a location to work on a Mac.) But many people don't look at TCO, they just see the lower initial price on the low-end hardware and won't buy Macintosh.
The list may be bizarre, but I didn't make it up -- someone else in this thread verified that he saw it too, a couple of months ago. I don't know why the Macworld signup page is so bizarre, but it is as I submitted it, and it seems worth considering.
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