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New PowerMac G5s: Up to 2.5Ghz, Liquid Cooled
no_demons writes "Apple have just announced the new, completely dual-processor PowerMac G5 lineup. The models all sport an 8x SuperDrive, whilst new the dual-2.5GHz model also features an 'innovative liquid cooled heat sink,' available in July."
Already liquid cooled, and in a cool aluminium case, enough case fans for a hovercraft. What is left to do?
I promised my wife I wouldn't upgrade from my 800mHz 17" iMac overclocked to 900 with dual display to a G5 until they came out with a Dual 3Ghz, and I would get the 23" HD Studio display with it.
:P
Now I have to wait another year.
Bastards.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Now we know what all the extra space is for in the new G5 case design, to hold the liquid nitrogren tanks!
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Did anyone else notice that the lower processor on this diagram doesn't appear to be turned on?
Come on, Apple. I want purple and red water coming out of both processors!
-ch
I doubt that the art guys checked with the science guys before illustrating the CPU cooling design, unless that lower CPU is either A)Off or B) Magical.
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I am sure there is a place for a pony in there somewhere.
I just orded a Mac II like 3 days ago!!! thanks again Jobs.
Meh, if you were a REAL GEEK you would settle for a drive-through wedding(while messing with your powerbook) and put off honeymoon activities until you got an FP on your new G5!
Frickin "LA-ZER" Beams.
...my computing has always been liquid-cooled.
Many of the UNIX nerds I know would be much happier with this dream machine.
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Oh, wait a second.
Ok, forget Bill. But look at open source guys: THOSE people know how to hit release dates. At least I think they do because it seems like every other day Slashdot is announcing availability of version 4.31.57.111 of some software package I've never heard of. Or are those really secret IP addresses for some conspiracy to which I haven't been invited?
Actually, I was trying to be Insightful, not Funny.
Or Apples to Intels
*ducks*
...and that's all there is to it.
Steve promise 3.0GHz 10 months ago. He's still got 2 months to deliver a product announcement. And they wouldn't have to ship until september.
Apple always has a big announcement in late July. The 3GHz could be it. It could also be the new iMacs though (As Apple has stopped producing the current model as of this week).
"You've got an invalid haircut" -Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya
they are still impressive machines, save for the GPU
I know, the GPU's in these things suck. The Radeon 9800XT is a toy, just because it was released more than a month ago. Why didn't Apple pack these things with some unreleased card from ATI or Nvidia that would run 5X as fast, huh?
You gotta love the press quotes on Apple's G5 page, like: "it's the fastest Mac I've ever used in my entire life". yeah, that SE/30 was a screamer, but this G5 toasts it, no contest.
must... stay... awake...
"...I would bet that 99% of us can't name one product from the HP lineup, but can name..."
Well I certainly can - HP sells iPods!
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if only he used a realdoll.
That Xenon is one noble processor.
Please don't use the words
:)
"Trickle Down"
In a post about liquid cooling...
The Bigger The Headache The Bigger the Pill
Now with more Speed Holes!(TM)
fs
Mudflaps. With the nekkid ladies on 'em.
What, am I the only redneck who owns a mac?
What happens if the expensive G5 processor fails? They should have used a 68040, because it would be cheaper to fix if it breaks.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Even cheaper: just suggest to your fiancee that you should have a cheap wedding you you can afford more computers, and then you get to have no wedding at all, absolutely free!
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
althought impressive with the blue light thingy, i'm more interested in how you are going to incorporate the ass variable into a mac.
or is that a diccerent project altogether?
i'm thinking of course of this picture: http://www.buckeyemonkey.com/images/ass.jpg
I thought you were trying to do a goatse cx impression? Give it some time, you'll get there.
Yeah - SURE it is. How do you explain the dual G5 with the blue light in the background then?
Spell cheek you've failed me four the last thyme!
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
Hey, you're the ones who say information WANTS to be free. But even if your information WANTS to give you a blowjob anyone can look at the linux discussions on slashdot and read about what horrific piles of vomit-ridden unusable crap GNOME and KDE are. Linux just WANTS to have some half-usable interface beyond the commandline. And OS X has the exact same commandline.
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers, and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
You are a special-needs child if you can't figure out how to buy a multibutton mouse. All the ones that work on PC's work on macs. But then your hands have FIVE fingers, not the usual TEN, so I guess you are a crippled special-needs child, so you have an excuse. And Macs are for real computer lovers-have you ever tried to have sex with a PC? The sharp edges on the box and rough construction materials make it S&M no matter how gentle you are.
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
One word: Expose. And I'm not talking about the kind of "expose" you do in front of third graders, you sicko. Plus, transparency allows me to look at even more porn at the same time, without having to buy additional monitors!
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
The freemasons used OpenDarwin to overthrow the Bulgarian government just recently. Pure Darwin is far too strong for human use, of course, it will poison you much like drinking pure alcohol.
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). Meanwhile thousands of Mac laptop owners are trying to sue Apple over poorly-made logic boards. But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
iBooks aren white not silvery, you blind special needs child, and if you're talking about 12 inch powerbooks you have the cost comparison backwards. But if it's quality you're concerned with, I once beat a man to death with a 17" powerbook, and it didn't even need to be rebooted afterwards. Well the latch that holds the screen down did break, but I'd like to see you murder someone with a ThinkPad.
"...blah blah MHz myth blah..."
"Although there's truth in PPC being more elegant than x86, it's crushing that the top-of-the-range 1.5 GHz chip is slaughtered by the equivalent 3 GHz Pentium 4. However, Steve Jobs showed some vague Photoshop filter benchmarks at the last MacWorld, so being a leprotard, I'm convinced."
Yeah, and the 3GHz Pentium crushes my 286 too. Try comparing it to something new. But at least you gave us more information on your "special needs" discussed earlier. A leprotard, eh? And just in case
No insults. No 'you're WRONG (because you got this little nitpicky fact wrong even though everything else was fine.)' No condescending attitude. And you even seem to know what you're talking about!
What's wrong with you? This is slashdot, for pity's sake.
-fred
Sign #11 of Slashdot overdose: You see the phrase 'moderate Republican' and you wonder if that would be a +1 or a -1.
A nice touch in a 12 year old girl's room. A powerbook would look cool though.