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Join Date: Aug 2004
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im wondering...the g5 processor is huge..requires a lot of cooling..how is it possible that g5 powerbook is even in the near feature? i dont know exactly but i remember when the g4 came out it wasnt untill like two years after it came out a g4 powerbook came out...?..i dont know i just thought this would be interesting to ask...
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It's not in the near future...that's the point.
Who knows what IBM has up their sleeves though 
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Put it this way... Apple and IBM both know what they're doing. However, most of us don't expect them to even anounce a G5 PB for quite some time (read: atleast 9 months-1 year). I'm hoping a rev b comes out by the time I want to upgrade from this G4... probably in like 2 years or so. That way all the buggs will be worked out for me...
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This interesting thread over at AppleInsider gives one hope that a PowerBook G5 might be sooner, rather than later.
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It still draws too much power and runs too hot from what I have read. It's no P-M. I really wish apple would have the resources to engineer a dedicated mobile chip that was powerful, efficient, ran cool, and drew a relatively low amount of power.... maybe some day...
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Mac: 15" 1.5ghz PB w/ 128mb vid, 5400rpm 80gb, combo drive, 2gb ram
Peripherals: 20gb 4g iPod, Canon i950, Canon S230 "elph", Canon LIDE30, Logitech MX510, Logitech z5500, M-Audio Sonica Theater, Samsung 191T
PC: AMD "barton" XP @ 2.3ghz, 1gb pc3200, 9800pro 128mb, 120gb WD-SE 120gb
Xbox: 1.6, modded with X3 xecuter, slayers evoX 2.6, WDSE 120gb HDD
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It would be pointless having to rush the R&D to get cooler chips out and into a PowerBook, I'd rather they take their time and make sure it all works together.
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Originally posted by bradleykavin:
im wondering...the g5 processor is huge..requires a lot of cooling..how is it possible that g5 powerbook is even in the near feature?
Who told you it is in the near future?
I bet the next Powerbook update, at least, will sport some form of a G4. Remember, back in June, Vicki H. Burkhard of Sonnet said that there will be a successor to 7447A now in the Powerbooks, the 7448.
But my hope is for next year. You are perhaps aware of this PowerPC roadmap from Freescale. Now Freescale is essentially Motorola's semiconductor division and you can tell who take seriously Motorola today for computer processors. However, Freescale is going to discuss this fall the first dual core PowerPC processor. In perfect alignment with the processor roadmap above, and more precisely with the e600 processors. This probably means Apple will use such a processor (most probably in a Powerbook, since it is a vast improvement over today's G4s), by next srping or, the latest, early summer. And if they manage to put the dual core version in a 17" Powerbook, this would be the first notebook with two processing units.
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