RIP G4 PowerMac

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 9, 2004 @10:26AM from the send-some-corpses dept.

squiggleslash writes "An a not entirely surprising move, Apple has taken the PowerMac G4 out of production (see the last few paragraphs of this interesting article in Mac Central about the new G5s.) The PowerMac G4 had continued to be in production largely for users of Mac OS 9, and it had been speculated it might be kept as a lower-end headless entry-level Mac. You can still buy them from the Apple Store, while stocks last. On a seperate note, it looks like the 3GHz G5 is a while away, and G5 PowerBooks are no nearer production."

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Whither the iMac? by Zhe+Mappel · 2004-06-09 12:32 · Score: 5, Informative

To summarize the main points of the Mac Central piece (from which /.'s factoid is taken):
The G5 heatsink is too big to put in a laptop

The G5 heatsink is too big to put in an iMac

Putting the big G5 heatsink anwhere but inside a Power Mac is a "heck of a challenge," according to an Apple marketing director

But we have also heard, in the past week, that the G4 iMac is no longer being shipped to Apple stores. So, is Apple just being coy here? Or is the iMac line going into hibernation?