a17inchFuture said:
P.S. you don't know what you're talking about . . . neither do I, for that matter, but they could be sitting in job's office right now.
Or they could be sitting in an Apple R&D lab, while they work out all the issues that you never touch on. You can rail at the engineers for being incompetent all that you like, but I'm pretty sure that you couldn't create a 1" enclosure that holds all these technologies you seem to think are so amazingly easy to manage. For comparison, the PC world doesn't have a whole lot that can match the PowerBooks in style and power, and the ones that beat it on outright speed are battery-hogging and not even close to the same form factor.
As we can tell from the xserves, they are having some probelms with the new 970FX processors, whether it be quantity or quality, so why are we to assume that that is NOT the only thing holding them up . . back in theday, everyone was sure it was only the processor heat holding it up, and now that thats no longer an issue, everyone seems to hav eforgottne that and made it out that Apple is having some massive problems with new tech, etc. . . .
Wait... Who says that there isn't a problem with the 970FX? Last I heard, it's still running hotter than the G4, though it's at higher clock. A 2.0ghz G5 runs something like 25.4 watts, while a 1.4 7557 runs at, if I recall correctly, 12-16 watts. Sounds like a small difference, doesn't it? Well, add in the new ASIC, the faster hard drives you'd need to really make effective use of the bus, the faster RAM so that you can keep the pipe fed, the faster SuperDrive that everyone wants... We're talking about major wattage increases across the board, which means that they need some kind of new battery technology to keep it all running effectively, and that says nothing of trying to keep it all cool within something that is thinner than the Xserve and doesn't have the advantage of a wall power supply to run a cooling system that
is constantly on in the device you're trying to compare it to.
So, we can have a performance-starved G5 laptop that wouldn't really do much more than the current G4, gets far less battery life, and burns the hell out of your lap, all while running like a leafblower, or we can wait a little while. My next computer is likely to be a 15" G5 PB, whenever they come out, but I would like them to be good, solidly engineered machiens, not a kludge job to appease people who have no patience.
Apple is a business, and they're trying to make money. They know they need to keep up. If you can't wait, I hear Centrinos are nice, on the other side of the fence.
If apple is trying to release the g5pbook with some new technology, they should already just quite it. AS i pointed out in my nintendo post, waiting on tech, or innovating isn't always the smartest idea (business-wise), and I think they should be more concerned about catching up, then they should worry about new tech.
You don't get it, do you? The whole thing is new technology. The motherboards could just be updated before, but these have to be built from the ground up, and it involves all kinds of technologies that Apple has never needed to fit into a laptop before. With a tower, you have room and options on cooling, but this is a different ballgame. I'd love to see a wattage chart for the old machines, and then a solid figure for the newer components, because I bet we're talking something on the order of a two or three fold increase in heat.
That's not simple to solve.
