iBook and iMac SE

[King Cobra]

In my previous post, when I said slower, I did not mean MHz, but rather performance-wise with certain applications using the G4.

With all of these articles that are being brought up, there is much more talk about a faster "G3" Sahara chip and iBooks than the use of this chip in any other of Apple's lines of products. I would expect the new chip to first be used it newer PowerMacs, then the chip would progress down the line to Apple's cousin models (Powerbook, iMac, iBook).
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[xelterran]

clue?

if you look on apples website they still have the "new" tag on the imac, im skeptical if it will be updated...

 

[King Cobra]

If xelterran is talking about my last post...
if you look on apples website they still have the "new" tag on the imac, im skeptical if it will be updated...

Easy, big guy. I meant later on, maybe in 2003. We might see these upgrades occur. The iMac is fine the way it is, just as the Powerbook is fine and has been updated. We may see the Sahara chip much later.
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[arn]

we talked about this eWeek article when it came out Oct 01

https://www.macrumors.com/pages/2001/10/20011011200108.shtml

This is what came of it:

https://www.macrumors.com/pages/2001/10/20011016071623.shtml

arn

 

[Falleron]

Originally posted by arn
we talked about this eWeek article when it came out Oct 01

https://www.macrumors.com/pages/2001/10/20011011200108.shtml

This is what came of it:

https://www.macrumors.com/pages/2001/10/20011016071623.shtml

arn

Cheers Arn, I was sure that we already discussed the new IBM chips.

 

[numb_brain]

ibook G4

While everyone is talking about the sahara G3 from IBM, which still has to come out if i'm not mistaking, I was wondering about the following thing:

The latest TiPB's have a PPC 7455 (which support L3 cache), while there also is a cooler 7445 version (not supporting L3) being produced by MOT. Wouldn't it make sense to put the 7445 in the new ibooks, seen the fact that they don't put L3 in there anyway? It might even run cool enough so it wouldn't need an extra cooling fan...

Or is there any reason why Apple couldn't use these babies in their ibooks?

Any thoughts about this, anyone?

 

[King Cobra]

Not knowing this as a fact, I would <assume> that since most/all G4 products are using a fan, even the lowest-powered G4 throws off too much heat for the portable to handle. This may mean that even if the iBook got a 7455 chip in it at low speeds, it would still get excessively hot. So a fan would be needed to cool off the unit.
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[peterjhill]

My fan rarely comes on, on my Ti800. If it does it is super silent, because I can't hear it. It is super nice, my last set of computers (a dell optiplex and latitude) that I had running together in my office made quite a racket. I love how quiet my office is

 

[Spock]

All I want is a 700Mhz iBook and a 1Ghz iMac,

Please Steve make me happy again!!

 

[numb_brain]

Wouldn't it make sense to put the 7445 in the new ibooks, seen the fact that they don't put L3 in there anyway? It might even run cool enough so it wouldn't need an extra cooling fan...

I've done some research and this is what i've found:

the 7455 has a powerdissipation of 21.3 W @ 1GHz
the 7445 10.3 W @ 733 MHz
the 750 CXE (G3) 6.0 W @ 600 MHz

If I'm not mistaking, the Cube didn't have a fan either, so I think those geniuses at Apple might pull off a G4 ibook without a fan if they wanted to...