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I am sorry that this thread did get quag'd. Back on topic, DMB made a good point to me on ichat. If they do give the 12" powerbook the 1.5 Ghz G4 the ibooks can't go faster because the G4 chip for the pbooks haven't either. Sure they can boost the top end 14" ibook to 1.33 Ghz but, to keep enough difference between the ibooks, they would have to cripple the low end at 1 Ghz. So because the possibility of not fitting the lcs in the 12" they kill the 12" pbook and put G5's in the rest of the pbook line. Then later in a year they bring back the 12" with the smaller lcs in it.
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Seems possible to me, but it all depends on this magical cooling system that must be developed. In my opinion it might be a little too much to hope for, that they will manage to develop such a system so soon after the introduction of the full sized LCS. But thats just an idea.
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I don't see what's wrong with a 1.2 GHz low end iBook and a 1.33 GHz high end. As long as the PowerBooks are at 1.5 or 1.6 GHz for the low end, that's fine.
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That is also true, seems perfectly possible ratio of power between the two lines. I guess it all depends on what kind of muscle the next generation of Powerbooks will debut with. User formally known as Sh0eWax |
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Well, yes. We've seen that article here before, but that isn't exactly a liquid cooling system. Its more a head dissipation system using a metal with low specific heat index.
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Or go 1.2/1.4 for iBooks, and 1.6/1.8 for PowerBooks. I think that would be fine. Post #666 |
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Oh, I know. What I'm saying is I don't think it would be a huge problem to have only a 133 MHz gap, because there would be more standard features on the high end model, and because it's not hurting PowerBook sales to have a mere 167 MHz gap. Then again, the older G4 iBooks had just 67 MHz separating the middle from the top model, and I suppose the top end ones didn't sell well, which is why they moved to the new strategy of just two speeds instead of three.
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I saw it also - but considering the G5 processor - a notebook would have to be huge...
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Seems likely to me that the mobile G5 will (at least initially) be available only in the 17" PB. This is a great opportunity to differentiate the model line a little bit, and (in usual Apple style), make those who want the latest and fastest, go straight to the top end of the lineup.
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And LCS needs liquid... PC LCSs are large - very large (half the size of the PC)... You have to cool the liquid, not only transport it through the copper plate on the processor and the GPU. So... LCS seems impossible to me in a notebook.
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