Heehee.
Obviously IBM and Apple have or will or are trying to see if it can be done, Apple said don't expect it within the next year publicly.
Will Apple move to another processor in portables after the G4? Well, yeah ... Will it be the G5? eh don't know, they are certainly looking into it from what is heard on the net. Do note the first rev.'s of the G4 didn't work in portables either.
The G5 is a much hotter chip and one may rightfully question how and why IBM went from such a power efficient chip [PowerPC 7x0] to the heat producing PowerPC 970. The answer has mostly to do with the 970 coming from the Power architecture.
David
On Dec 10, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:
stewart ebneter said:
I read somewhere that g5's will never be used in powerbooks, because they
are just too hot for such. this is why they went to so much trouble with
the cooling system in the g5 desktop.
So why does there exist a 1.3 Ghz "portable" version at IBM of the G5 processor, if it can't be used in a portable system? At least it have been made as a prototype.
There will be portable non G3/G4 systems, but the question is when and
perhaps how they will have changed in design to improve heat dissipation.
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