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."

Comments

Nothing left for Modders

[puregen1us]

Already liquid cooled, and in a cool aluminium case, enough case fans for a hovercraft. What is left to do?

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[Geek_3.3]

Are you kidding??? No cold cathode lights? LED lit case fans?? Still in a conventional (albeit very chic) case design?? 'liquid cooling?' I spit at liquid cooling! LN2 all the way!

Lemee see a round plexiglass SPHERE case w/ enough LED's and cold cathode lights to light up a small-to-medium sized city and enough cooling power to shatter the T1000, and THEN we can talk about 'nothing left for modders' to do... ;-)

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[Gleng]

Could always slap a Type-R sticker on the side of it.

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[squiggleslash]

Well, you could do what this guy did*...

(* Well, ok, I've linked to page two for a reason, flip to page one after you've finished your heart attack)

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[dasmegabyte]

Well, it's apparently pretty quiet. There's something for modders to work on -- they prefer their machines to sound like a VTOL aircraft landing on a swedish death metal band.

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[troc]

they prefer their machines to sound like a VTOL aircraft landing on a swedish death metal band.

Please tell me you have videos! We need more swedish-death-metal-band-being-crushed-by-VTOL-air craft stories here on slashdot.

I'll settle for Roxette being crushed by a moderately loud cat if that's the best you can find.

Troc

PS I think I may have wandered offtopic.

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[tbone1]

Already liquid cooled, and in a cool aluminium case, enough case fans for a hovercraft. What is left to do?

Uh, use the thing?

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[AKnightCowboy]

I was going to suggest a spoiler, but after looking at the case I notice it already has 2. That keeps it from floating away and gives the G5 better traction for those hard core photoshop sessions.

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[RevAaron]

I'd rather not have my CPU's superconduct, thanks.

Pussy. Go back to using your Amiga or something.

Re:Nothing left for Modders

[Anonymous Coward]

but even the new box is slow compared to my quad FX-51 box

And your box is a tortoise compared to my eight-way 68040 box, each running at a spritely 25MHz (that's about 10x the speed of a 2.5GHz G5, 10x2.5=25.) I'm running OpenBSD which is well known for its SMP support, thanks to it not being bound by all the rules of the GPL.

So I suggest you throw that piece of crap out the window and use a real computer.

Bastards

[numbski]

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.

Now I have to wait another year.

Bastards. :P

Is that lower CPU off?

[m_chan]

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.

Re:Not Much Here

[foidulus]

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!

You forgot ONE thing

[WormholeFiend]

Frickin "LA-ZER" Beams.

Re:Not Much Here

[corporatemutantninja]

No kidding. I was counting on that "3 Ghz by summer '04" promise, and Steve blew it. I have now lost all faith in him for delivering cool technology, or for hitting release dates. "Three strikes and you're out" may be fine for drug dealers, but technology CEOs should be held to a stricter standard. I don't care if he gets a major OS release out every year, or if he invents a whole new product category every other year. I mean, a professional CEO like Bill Gates promises Longhorn and...

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?

Re:Clock speed

[nuggetman]

Or Apples to Intels

*ducks*

Re:Liquid Cooling is, uh, cool

[nine-times]

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?

Re:Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

[The Mutant]

"...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!

Re:Clock speed

[cosmo7]

That Xenon is one noble processor.

Re:Don't care about apple...

[supertsaar]

Please don't use the words
"Trickle Down"
In a post about liquid cooling...

:)

The New Powermac G5

[filmsmith]

Now with more Speed Holes!(TM)

fs

Re:Nothing left for Modders but ASS?

[f64]

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

Re:Nothing left for Modders but ASS?

[skinfitz]

Yeah - SURE it is. How do you explain the dual G5 with the blue light in the background then?