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PowerMac G5's Arriving...
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Re: WALK IN & BUY THEM!!
Students only I presume?
Not that it matters to me, I'm waiting on my dual G5. I just wanted to know if they are limiting who they are selling to.
Students only I presume?
Not that it matters to me, I'm waiting on my dual G5. I just wanted to know if they are limiting who they are selling to.
The fan units on top of the RAM bay slides right out so you can get to the RAM pretty easily. And yes, it is very clean and sexy. I now wish I went to that school so I can just walk in and buy a 1.8! 
its neat watching the numebr of page views in this thread.. each time i refresh the screen. it jumps 2-3 views..
1.5 views a sec.. prob average
1.5 views a sec.. prob average
WALK IN & BUY THEM!!
I don't think it's limited to students. They guy also said "maybe" when I asked if they were getting the dual 2.0's in next week.
I don't think it's limited to students. They guy also said "maybe" when I asked if they were getting the dual 2.0's in next week.
Makes a lot of sense actually. DDR RAM in the G5 Mac is dual channel, hence the 800Mhz effective bandwidth (666Mhz in the case of the 1.6Ghz G5). This means that the separate memory controllers pull from separate banks. This way they don't need different wiring between models and makes it intuitive to the user how to place down their RAM in separate banks when they buy RAM in pairs.
In the PC world they usually color code the DIMM slots (not that this helps, I've seen more than a few PCs where the RAM was installed serially, halving the effective bandwidth) or, in the case of the budget boards that are in the cheaper Dell/HP boxen and SFF PCs, they only have two slots--you'd think they couldn't mess that up, but you'd be wrong, more than a few buy single stick 512MB RAMs instead of 2x256MB and Dell and HP entry PCs only contain one stick (with no information on why to purchase otherwise in their configurators).
Take care,
terry
Clear plastic panel
Well actually there is. You can remove the outer aluminum cover which reveals a clear plastic panel. The panel helps with the airflow and must be in place when running the G5. (I'm not sure but either the G5 goes to sleep when it is removed or slows down considerably to keep the processor cool.
Well actually there is. You can remove the outer aluminum cover which reveals a clear plastic panel. The panel helps with the airflow and must be in place when running the G5. (I'm not sure but either the G5 goes to sleep when it is removed or slows down considerably to keep the processor cool.
Too late, if you ever bothered to look at the Apple Quicktime VR of it, you see that that you can remove the aluminum door and leave the clear-plastic panel on (for airflow reasons).
I imagine a lot of people will be leaving their Mac like that in the coming months.
Take care,
terry
Sounds like a case for transparent aluminum! Where's Scotty when you need him... *hums Star Trek theme*
speaking of scotty.
Who hears loves Star Trek? I DO!
nothing is better then talking Macs and Trek
well unless you wanna talk Mac's , Trek and Subarus
but Subarus arent that popular (unfortunately)
Who hears loves Star Trek? I DO!
nothing is better then talking Macs and Trek
well unless you wanna talk Mac's , Trek and Subarus
but Subarus arent that popular (unfortunately)
Re: Clear plastic panel
I'm thinking more like a panel identical to the aluminum outer cover. I think it's important to preserve the clean lines. I'm sure something like that is in the works as we speak. They've been waiting to get an actual panel to make the mold.
I'm thinking more like a panel identical to the aluminum outer cover. I think it's important to preserve the clean lines. I'm sure something like that is in the works as we speak. They've been waiting to get an actual panel to make the mold.
Originally posted by nagromme
That would be 1-2, not counting your own refresh
im not refreshing while viewing the tread. just refreshing in the thread listings
Funny. It appears they kept the motherboards blue. Right? Is that shot of the 1.6 inside a production model? It was my understanding that blue motherboards were part of R&D color-code for a beta. They would go to green for production.
But if they kept them blue. Bitchin.
But if they kept them blue. Bitchin.
in that photo of the inside of the 1.6
it only has one fan. blowing onto the single processor
but at the back of the heat sink there are spaces for two fans..
are there two fans or only one.. and one empty slot for a fan?
it only has one fan. blowing onto the single processor
but at the back of the heat sink there are spaces for two fans..
are there two fans or only one.. and one empty slot for a fan?