Three-Alarm fire scorches key building on Apple campus

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  • Reply 21 of 58
    From one of the new Intel processors?



    Nah, if anything one of those power supplies from a G5. The G5 was the b@stard lovechild of Apple and IBM. Everybody can tell by looking at them, but no one wants to say that they don't look like the rest of the family. Chips always ran too hot, fans always ran too much, and the power supplies never held up. Remember them coming out and needing SEVEN fans?! Gosh.....you think that'll ever be a problem?! The G5 is 95% of the reason Apple switched to Intel.
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  • Reply 22 of 58
    monstrositymonstrosity Posts: 2,234member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Spamboy View Post


    From one of the new Intel processors?



    Nah, if anything one of those power supplies from a G5. The G5 was the b@stard lovechild of Apple and IBM. Everybody can tell by looking at them, but no one wants to say that they don't look like the rest of the family. Chips always ran too hot, fans always ran too much, and the power supplies never held up. Remember them coming out and needing SEVEN fans?! Gosh.....you think that'll ever be a problem?! The G5 is 95% of the reason Apple switched to Intel.



    The PowerPC as a rule ran faster and cooler than the competition, only towards the end did stray as motorolla were just being plain rubbish and not delivering.



    Nothing has ever fried my testicles as the current intel chips do.
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  • Reply 23 of 58
    teckstudteckstud Posts: 6,476member
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    Originally Posted by monstrosity View Post


    Nothing has ever fried my testicles as the current intel chips do.



    OUCH!
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  • Reply 24 of 58
    teckstudteckstud Posts: 6,476member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Spamboy View Post


    From one of the new Intel processors?



    The G5 is 95% of the reason Apple switched to Intel.



    I thought 99.9999% of the reason Apple switched was to take over Microsoft's world dominance?
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  • Reply 25 of 58
    dr_lhadr_lha Posts: 236member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by monstrosity View Post


    The PowerPC as a rule ran faster and cooler than the competition, only towards the end did stray as motorolla were just being plain rubbish and not delivering.



    Nothing has ever fried my testicles as the current intel chips do.



    If they ever released the mythical Powerbook G5, it would have served your testicles with a side of fries and a coke.
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  • Reply 26 of 58
    What is a "three alarm fire"?????
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  • Reply 27 of 58
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    Originally Posted by applestockholder View Post


    What is a "three alarm fire"?????



    Well it's like 3 alarm chili but hotter
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  • Reply 28 of 58
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by applestockholder View Post


    What is a "three alarm fire"?????



    Watch the video linked to this story and you'll understand what it means!



    Regards!
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  • Reply 29 of 58
    watched the video, still don't get it. Does it refer to the alarm having a "tripple buzz, pause, tripple buzz..." - if so, the name "three alarm fire" is still not very obviously descriptive...
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    jupiteronejupiterone Posts: 1,564member
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  • Reply 31 of 58
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by chrisqdeebo View Post


    Well it's like 3 alarm chili but hotter



    You sure it wasn't a 3G fire?



    Anyway, I wonder whether they'll have a fire sale for all the products in the R&D shop...
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  • Reply 32 of 58
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by dr_lha View Post


    If they ever released the mythical Powerbook G5, it would have served your testicles with a side of fries and a coke.



    As far as memory serves the G5's were never originally designed for laptops,nor desktops. Power and heat were of no consideration as they were designed for banks of IBM supercomputers.

    However when motorolla, who were meant to be designing the low power next generation screwed up, diverting their attention elseware, Apple were forced to use the crappy G5.



    Or something allow those lines, I cant be bothered to wikipedia it.



    My point is the Power PC chips IMO were great, and for the greater period had excellent power/performance ratio.
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  • Reply 33 of 58
    thrangthrang Posts: 1,056member
    Boy, they're really burning the midnight oil there....
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  • Reply 34 of 58
    ouraganouragan Posts: 437member
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    The building, also known as Valley Green Six, is believed to be one of the most famous buildings on the Apple campus, as it has been known to house a number of hardware-based research and development projects in the past.





    Apple has been known to work on some pretty hot products. Need I say more?





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  • Reply 35 of 58
    feynmanfeynman Posts: 1,087member
    Oops, kept the popcorn in the microwave for to long.
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  • Reply 36 of 58
    teckstudteckstud Posts: 6,476member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by monstrosity View Post


    The PowerPC as a rule ran faster and cooler than the competition, only towards the end did stray as motorolla were just being plain rubbish and not delivering.



    Nothing has ever fried my testicles as the current intel chips do.



    You should then scorch your buttocks on AppleTV's Intel chip to even it out.
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  • Reply 37 of 58
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    Originally Posted by bwik View Post


    Meth lab.





    Apple iMeth
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  • Reply 38 of 58
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    Originally Posted by monstrosity View Post


    In other news the value of Apple has just surpassed that of Google @ $159 billion



    And Apple has been around only 22 years more.
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  • Reply 39 of 58
    Does this mean the Apple Hydrogen Fuel Cell Hovercraft with traffic avoiding artificial intelligence satellite hookup, auto drive and Blu-ray player shall be delayed?
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  • Reply 40 of 58
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    Originally Posted by teckstud View Post


    You should then scorch your buttocks on AppleTV's Intel chip to even it out.



    I hope the next Apple TV uses Intel's new Atom processor. I love that thing.



    * It also wouldn't be so bad to do away with IDE and actually embrace SATA.

    * A bigger version supporting regular 3.5" drives would be nice too.

    * As would a built in iPod dock capable of playing content from any iPod; your friend's included.

    * DVR capabilities too, but...



    Yeah.
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