RIP G4 PowerMac

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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It still lives...

[ProfessionalCookie]

It still lives on Slashdot- actually it's the Quicksilver G4 that still exists as the Apple Desktops topic icon.

Now that we're into the second generation of G5's I think an icon update is in order.

Whither the iMac?

[Zhe Mappel]

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?

Re:Message from the Extreme Conclusions Club

[Have Blue]

It's just as much the fault of the makers of QPS, for failing to port their product to OS X for the entire 5 years that Apple has been saying that OS 9 is a dead end.

Re:Message from the Extreme Conclusions Club

[Snowspinner]

Will there necessarily be driver support for anything in your new Dell configuration under Windows 98?

Very possibly not.

Hell, I remember when I tried to take a Gateway laptop back from Windows Me to Windows 98 - total disaster. There was no display driver in existence for it under 98.

So this argument overstates the case rather dramatically.

Re:Message from the Extreme Conclusions Club

[Moofie]

Get the ruler.