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."

Comments

it's a typo

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:it's a typo

[thirteenVA]

The link to the MacRumors article is here MacRumors iMac G5 Typo

It was posted on January 9th 2004, I noticed it on the macworld site a few Months prior to that but most rumor sites picked it up in January when MacRumors did.

Re:Or maybe....

[elmegil]

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.

It's a G3 in a Powermac

[brauwerman]

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.

Re:Or maybe....

[pudge]

Even if you selected iMac G5, they'd never know it, since it is the same value as Other.

Re:Or maybe....

[batobin]

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.

Re:iMac G5 "im Anflug" ?!?

[babbage]

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]:

The last rumor: iMac G5 in the approach?

Different rumor [sites] in Europe and the USA speculate at present upon possible G5-iMacs in June. Starting point is a report of the [Taiwanese] hardware side Digitimes, Apple with the there OEM manufacturer Quanta computer for June new "Notebook models" ordered. The French Mac side MacBidouille means now however, it can act possibly over iMacs, these for Apple by laptop manufacturers nevertheless already before produced themselves. (G5-PowerBooks are considered as rather improbabl[e].) Independently of it announces Mac Rumors with reference to anonymous sources, which are next in AC version as G5-Ausfuehrung planned and "at present in work". Acquaintance masses at the end of of June the next WWDC is held, on which Steve job wants to present the next Mac OS ( 10,4, code name "tiger"). In the past year it used its WWDC Keynote still, in order to introduce the G5-Power Macs.

11.05.2004 10:15 - Rumors - bs

So, nothing to see here, no "codes" to break... :-/