Comments on: Powerbook G5: A Hard Look http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/ Sat, 25 May 2013 16:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Eagle http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304726 Tue, 11 May 2010 06:18:31 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304726 Apple has already made a processor 10 times as powerful as the G5 and they didn’t spare space, and look what they came out with! The Macbook Air!

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304725 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:18:22 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304725 Randy,
Well there is no PowerBook G5. Rather, Apple switched to the Intel platform of processors, so there’s a CoreDuo powered MacBook Pro. You’ll find a lot more about that if you look around a bit.

]]> By: Randy http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304724 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:06:33 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304724 Hi all, new to the blog thing… but got a comment… since the powerbook g5 is out, why cant I find more comments/blogs on it? I really like the idea of running both os’s, mainly for work, any advice where to find more info? Thanks

]]> By: nick santilli http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304722 Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:44:09 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304722 Fred – thanks for the great details. Definitely lends some optimism to the G5 PB sooner than later.

Though after the recent speed bump, MacWorld Boston may be a bit soon to have an announcement. But still, I’d love to hear it!

]]> By: Fred http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304723 Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:25:57 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304723 The 100w power Nick quoted must be total power not cpu. The PPC970 consumes anywhere from 12 to 45w depending on clock speed and has power management built-in. If you look at the new imacs their form factor isn’t that different from the powerbook and they seem to handle the power dissipation issue (180w max continuous) fairly well and it has a 600MHz FSB. Now they will have to package a battery and keyboard in as well but after seeing what the Apple engineers did with the mini, It wouldn’t be too hard to imagine a 1.8 GHz G5 Powerbook in time for MacWorld Boston.

]]> By: norb http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304721 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:53:44 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304721 I agree with a few of you, why do we think the new PB has to look or feel like the last PB? Also, why doesn’t Apple start to look at other processors or get away from IBM and G whatever anyway?

]]> By: flyermoney http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304720 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:49:50 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304720 …and depending on how the forthcoming Cell processor evolves, possibility is that PowerMacs and PowerBooks will jump to the new architecture before PowerBook G5s ever appear…

]]> By: flyermoney http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304719 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:47:39 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304719 The PowerBook G5 would have great marketing appeal, but the fact is that having a 64-bit processor gets really interesting only when you throw boatloads of RAM at it (2GB is the max when it comes to laptops) to address Big-Science challenges (astrophysics, bio-sciences), humoungous Photoshop files, insane multitasking or gigantic databases, and a totally 64-bit operating system (Tiger).

Apple will surely offer energy and heat-efficient dual-core G4 laptops with faster buses (the current 167MHz mega-hurts performance) before going G5…

]]> By: daver http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304718 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:05:00 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304718 What if there never is a G5 Powerbook?…what if they’ve diverted their resources to the Next Thing…?
Why wouldn’t the Next Thing have the same issues that the G5 has? Unless it’s this new ‘crossbar latch’ thing from HP (which is probably years down the road), it seems to me that every advance in processor tech will have the same issues as the one before it, and will require a little (or a lot) more work to squeeze it into a small, lightweight space. So it will always trickle down from desktop to laptop because desktop is inherently easier: space and weight is less of an issue, so it’s easier to solve the problems there first, then tackle the harder problems. Maybe there will be a breakthru on the portable side, but it seems to me that in that case it would be introduced in all systems simultaneously, for the simple reason that anything you can do in a portable you can do at least as easily, if not easier, in a desktop.

]]> By: Jon http://gigaom.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304717 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:48:07 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/02/02/powerbook-g5-a-hard-look/#comment-304717 Be careful when attributing a cause-and-effect to the G5 “requiring” 9 fans to cool it.

The 9 fans are not needed for cooling. Apple could have done it with far fewer fans, like on PCs. Apple chose 9 fans to cool it quietly, distributing the load across the cooling zones so that each fan doesn’t have to turn as fast.

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