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Originally posted by jadei think the one inch powerbook g5s will appear.
cooligy
This product should be ready any minute, infact as there press release suggests, thaey have already done beta testing with people like Apple and Intel...and technology would be availible at the end od 2003. Those PBs should be here in early April!
Cool link Jade. The problem with going forward with faster processors in the Powerbook
(and ultimately all computers) is not Moore's Law, it is the law of thermodynamics. Increased power generates increased heat and this is what is preventing the G5 from appearing in the Powerbook.
Cooligy seems to be on to something here that can provide a solution to this dilemma. If I were IBM I'd buy the company right now just to keep it out of Intel's hands. I'm sure IBM has a trademark on "Micro Channel" architecture
(a term used by Cooligy) filed away somewhere from the failed
(to catch on) Micro Channel bus from the '70's.
In the
Current Openings Cooligy is looking for a "staff scientist" with a "prefered knowledge" of surface modification such as
silane chemistry:
I had no idea what that was all about, but a little Googling came up with this:
What that means to me is, if the are just hiring this guy, they are still trying to figure out how to bond their Micro Channel device to a very tiny, but really hot, little piece of silicon. Of course I'm sure IBM has some scientists with a great deal of surface modification using silane chemistry knowledge.
(I'm winging it here, again) Let's hope they get this part figured out soon.
All that aside, I think we'll see the G5 Powerbook with this technology onboard. Along with it we will also see a fuel cell either replacing, or augmenting the battery in the G5 Powerbook. Powering the G5 is the flip side to the coin of cooling it.
{
In related wild ass speculation, the waste byproduct of the fuel cell is water. Seems like I read somewhere on the web that somebody was developing a chip cooling system based on squirting micro amounts of water directly onto the chips surface to cool it.}
Since it may take some time for these two problems to be resolved, I think we will see a dual G4 configuration in the Powerbook before we will see a G5. It will probably restricted to plugged in for duals and stepped down to single CPU when on battery, but duals none the less.
I'm sure they could also do alternating use of the CPUs
(taking turns being fully powered up) to assist in keeping the thing cooled down to usable levels.
So it is a given
(I would think) that the G5 will come to the Powerbook so the real question is
when?
Since this is the start of a New Year, and I have been giving predictions pretty freely lately
(without any insider knowledge, I am no "Worker Bee") I'll go out on a limb and say that Apple will announce a dual G4 Powerbook as soon as sales really fall off for their current line due to anticipation of the G5 Powerbook, say around the WWDC this year. For the G5
(ta-da) Powerbook ~ the next MacWorld (that Apple attends).
My clairvoyance has sapped my mental energy, and my fingers are sore from all this typing ~ I'm going to get some breakfast.
Now, I'm not encouraging any of you to go out and light things on fire, but, it never hurts to have some business...just try not to hurt yourself!
), and the idea of talking about a PowerBook G5 is perfectly fine because there is a whole bunch of evidence pointing to the development of one and possibly the announcement of one, especially in this 20th Anniversary year that Jobs has already said they were going to release some "Great new Mac products."
