Reasons for a PB G5:
1.) 1.2 GHz G5 power consumption approximately the same as a 1 Ghz G4.
Reasons against:
1.) Current architecture with dual banks of ram may need heavy modification for PB's.
2.) System Controller runs fairly hot ( since it is a proprietary chip, we will never know... )
Please reason and argument before certainty of your opinion
Not opinion, but if you want "opinion," every Rumor site of varying quality, some with actual factual info, and this is rumor sites, some with people who know engineering, have said that with the current die and specs of the current (note: the current) G5 there's no way to put them into a laptop.
It's safe(r) to speculate that there cannot be a G5 Powerbook for at least a few months based on information gleaned from everywhere and watching the progression of the G5 chip, then to speculate foolishly that the G5 Powerbooks will be sooner than later... in fact, the latter is dangerous as too many naive macheads tend to then blame Apple when their foolish, misguided dreams are put upon pedestals that clearly cannot and will not take place... like the G5 Powerbook.
As a person who's looked inside a G5, oooh and ahhhed over the work of art the G5 is (it really is, a G5 1.8 anyways, only one I've taken apart), and as a guy who's been taking computers apart since his first Timex Sinclair (anyone remember those?) and then used to build his own peecees before one thing was self evident, Macs rule, unless there's an engineering breakthrough overnight there's a lot of work to go from the current G5 as a desktop machine to a laptop machine. Heat, even clocking the chip down, would be more than the current Powerbook enclosure to handle. That's just the tip of the iceberg, then there's fitting much of the new architecture under the hood, if you've been inside a G5, you'd see there's a lot of stuff going on that wouldn't fit in the G4 17 PB, let alone the other sizes. Not that they can't reengineer it, but that takes time and testing.
The only way Apple could release the G5 Powerbook would be to say "available come the first of the year" which of course with Apple will mean mid 2004 which is about how long it'll take to make the G5 possible. In other words, Jobs could do what he did with the G5, say it'll be available on X date, really knowing it won't be until Y date (a month later for most buyers) and then not be able to ship until Z date in quantity, which reality is, for the current G5 Powermac, that's not going to be until mid to late October (mark my words), maybe later for some (just today I've heard from people who've said their current "revised" date has slipped a week back). Five months from Paris Expo is February 2004 so, by the current BS that Apple is working on with the G5 desktops, yes, they could indeed announce the Powerbook G5. But hopefully they're not going to do two moronic things in one year.
BTW I'm a huge Apple fan, just not sucked into the RDF. Apple is a great company, but needs to do better on being upfront about delivering on promises.
Just trying to get to the point that some things should be done collaboratively, rather than against each other.
