thatwendigo said:
Ha...
Hahaha!
Oh, man, that was good for a laugh. I think you seriously need to adjust your expectations for the 12" PowerBook if you think there's going to be a G5 in it, since they haven't even managed to get the Radeon 9700 chipset under the hood. They're already struggling to get the 12 watt 1.5ghz 7447A to stay cool in the enclosure, but you're expecting them to stick a far hotter G5 in, along with a more powerful GPU?
Also, the last time I checked, PowerBooks came with built-in Airport Extreme and Bluetooth, so that kind of ruins the claim that Apple would be ripping people off on them.
First up, I agree that getting a G5, at least in the guises that we know it in currently, would probably be very difficult, if not impossible to do practically in the 12" form factor.
However, 'struggling' to get a 1.5GHz 7447A in the 12" PowerBook? My 1.33GHz 7447A 12" PowerBook runs substantially cooler than my previous 1GHz 12" PowerBook...outside of running Unreal Tournament 2004 or ripping a DVD, the fan
never comes on. How much extra heat is that extra 170MHz going to create? The presence of a 1.33GHz G4 in the 12", and a 1.5GHz in the high-end 15" and the 17" has everything to do with Apple deliberately stratifying its PowerBook range, and very little to do with an intrinsic incompatibility of the 12" form factor with G4s running faster than 1.33GHz. For comparison, what was the heat output of the previous generation 1GHz 133MHz FSB G4 in the Rev. B 12" PowerBook, and for that matter, the 867MHz G4 in the Rev A 12" PowerBook? Each generation of 12" PB has gotten cooler, while increasing overall system speed.
As for the Radeon 9700 Mobility, do you have any figures comparing the heat output of the GeForce FX 5200 Go to ATI's chip? Again, I'd be more willing to believe that the inclusion of the lower-end part in the 12" PB has more to do with cost-saving measures or product stratification than it has to do with engineering.