Small square motherboard?
Via http://croquer.free.fr/
"Apple has a prototype of a very small, square motherboard.
The motherboard has a bulky heatsink on the chip set and two memory slots.
What product will use this motherboard?"
If real, much depends on the completely speculative size of the motherboard.
I suppose this means the G5 Cube frothing can start, once again.
And the G5 PB foaming.
If it's tiny, bring on the G5 PDA/Newton thrashing.
If it's minute, let's give a warm welcome to G5 iPod delusional raving.
I'm sure someone with better French and English skills can do a better translation, BTW.
"Apple has a prototype of a very small, square motherboard.
The motherboard has a bulky heatsink on the chip set and two memory slots.
What product will use this motherboard?"
If real, much depends on the completely speculative size of the motherboard.
I suppose this means the G5 Cube frothing can start, once again.
And the G5 PB foaming.
If it's tiny, bring on the G5 PDA/Newton thrashing.
If it's minute, let's give a warm welcome to G5 iPod delusional raving.
I'm sure someone with better French and English skills can do a better translation, BTW.
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But thanks for the link, some interesting stuff there.
Dave
Originally posted by shawk
Via http://croquer.free.fr/
"Apple has a prototype of a very small, square motherboard.
The motherboard has a bulky heatsink on the chip set and two memory slots.
What product will use this motherboard?"
If real, much depends on the completely speculative size of the motherboard.
I suppose this means the G5 Cube frothing can start, once again.
And the G5 PB foaming.
If it's tiny, bring on the G5 PDA/Newton thrashing.
If it's minute, let's give a warm welcome to G5 iPod delusional raving.
I'm sure someone with better French and English skills can do a better translation, BTW.
Originally posted by Michael Wilkie
... The cube's motherboard was not rectangular. It was, well, a cube...
Of course, you mean a square. I don't think the Cube is coming back; this is more likely to be Aphelion's modular iMac. There was no mention of a video card slot; of course it is illogical to conjecture based on what is not mentioned. Two memory slots sounds like an iMac too (the Cube has three, and would have had four if there had been room).
Originally posted by shawk
Via http://croquer.free.fr/
"Apple has a prototype of a very small, square motherboard.
The motherboard has a bulky heatsink on the chip set and two memory slots.
What product will use this motherboard?"
If real, much depends on the completely speculative size of the motherboard.
I suppose this means the G5 Cube frothing can start, once again.
And the G5 PB foaming.
If it's tiny, bring on the G5 PDA/Newton thrashing.
If it's minute, let's give a warm welcome to G5 iPod delusional raving.
I'm sure someone with better French and English skills can do a better translation, BTW.
iBox ????
Originally posted by cubist
Of course, you mean a square. I don't think the Cube is coming back; this is more likely to be Aphelion's modular iMac. There was no mention of a video card slot; of course it is illogical to conjecture based on what is not mentioned. Two memory slots sounds like an iMac too (the Cube has three, and would have had four if there had been room).
he means a cube.
Originally posted by Nr9
he means a cube.
If so, he's wrong. I have a cube, and the motherboard is not a cube. Duh.
Regardless of it's form factor, a replacement for the current iMac must be on it's way. I can only hope that they take the occasion of their 20th to really offer something "insanely great".
Cheaper G5s -- iMac and eMac class machines -- could share a common platform with notebooks, with a less aggressive overall architecture, designed to minimize power (a cost factor, as well as relating to battery life) and cost. The main difference between the notebook and desktop models will become compact DIMMS and disks, rather than logic board design, which should result in better economies of scale.
This is something I have advocated in other threads here, and might just be related to this rumored "small square motherboard"
Or am I that naive ?
Originally posted by Aphelion
Here's another take on what the "small square motherboard" might be at MacOPINION "Apple's Future".
Back to the future: The first iMac was basically a MainStreet PowerBook stuffed under a CRT.
"I'm making plastics now"
Come on G5 iMac!
Originally posted by Amorph
Back to the future: The first iMac was basically a MainStreet PowerBook stuffed under a CRT.
Excellent point. Apple is so good at marketing "NEW" products that most people didn't even notice the similarities.
Note: bulky heatsinks don't go well with PowerBooks (unless they plan on using the case/user as a heatsink).