Pardon? (I put my ear to the G5 Tower in stores and it seems whispher quiet to me...)
Lemon Bon Bon
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Wish I could do that with my new iMac G5.
A clarification, if nothing else in the room is making noise, the high-pitched (though low in volume) whine is quite headache-inducing, at least for me. Now, if something else in the room is making noise (TV, fan, whatever), the iMac can't be heard.
Pardon? (I put my ear to the G5 Tower in stores and it seems whispher quiet to me...)
Lemon Bon Bon
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Stores are notoriously noisy environments, and are usually air conditioned (often with good airflow to the machines). And you usually aren't running a heavy workload on the demo machines. Even in our fairly noisy, temperature-controlled office if I run certain code on that hardware it'll become noticable. Put the machine in (for example) my home theatre next to the 100W/channel AV receiver and then get it to do some video processing and it'll be very noticable... I can hear my projector and it is rated 8 db quieter than Apple claims for the G5. Use the 3D video card and in go the ear plugs.
FWIW, my work Dell just got upgraded from Intel integrated graphics to a GigaByte GeForce 5700 w/128MB, and my work environment went from quiet to noisy! The graphics chip fan is a whirling dervish! Who would have thunk? But maybe I got one of the early 5700 chips...
So, if a Power Mac has a Radeon 9800 or a GeForce 6800, the loudest thing will probably be the graphics card fan.
Here's an idea: If Apple really wants to dominate the education market they need to make a headless eMac with standard VGA and PS/2 ports. Most schools simply swap out towers and leave the monitors/kb/mice to save money. Most schools also do not want to buy all new mice, keyboards and monitors for every new CPU they buy. If Apple did this, schools could swap out CPUs and not worry about buying $500 monitors. Of course an even better solution would be to make these headless eMacs with easily swapable processors. I can envision a mini tower with hidden handles on the side that you pull to remove various upgradable options. Like how hot swapable hard drives work today. Apple can release new processor upgrades every 6 months so schools don't have to replace entire machines.
Here's an idea: If Apple really wants to dominate the education market they need to make a headless eMac with standard VGA and PS/2 ports. Most schools simply swap out towers and leave the monitors/kb/mice to save money. Most schools also do not want to buy all new mice, keyboards and monitors for every new CPU they buy. If Apple did this, schools could swap out CPUs and not worry about buying $500 monitors. Of course an even better solution would be to make these headless eMacs with easily swapable processors. I can envision a mini tower with hidden handles on the side that you pull to remove various upgradable options. Like how hot swapable hard drives work today. Apple can release new processor upgrades every 6 months so schools don't have to replace entire machines.
I don't know if you follow along on the PC side at all, but even upgrading the CPU isn't just as easy as replacing a single chip. Especially after 2 or 3 revs of said chip. By this I mean, new chips take advantage of faster RAM or a faster/different FSB, etc. Usually after 8 months a PC person doesn't have much of an upgrade path unless they want to replace the whole motherboard. Which usually means buying new RAM as well. So while definitely cheaper than buying a whole new computer, it isn't as simple as you may think.
Basically there's a whole lot of computer parts getting flushed during an upgrade.
I don't know if you follow along on the PC side at all, but even upgrading the CPU isn't just as easy as replacing a single chip. Especially after 2 or 3 revs of said chip. By this I mean, new chips take advantage of faster RAM or a faster/different FSB, etc. Usually after 8 months a PC person doesn't have much of an upgrade path unless they want to replace the whole motherboard. Which usually means buying new RAM as well. So while definitely cheaper than buying a whole new computer, it isn't as simple as you may think.
Basically there's a whole lot of computer parts getting flushed during an upgrade.
CPU daughtercards offer a lot of performance boost on one simple to replace board. If built around a G5 mobo you could gain a lot of performance with newer model processors that up clock and bus speeds, thus increasing performance. And I never suggested this be performed on PCs, I suggessted Apple make a Mac with PS/2 and VGA ports so schools won't have to buy all new mice keyboards and monitors.
New emac in the works? You could have fooled me!! That discussion died about a month ago
Discussions about video cards, heat issues, that old chestnut - the Headless Mac, and fan noise...
There ain't no eMac around here...wait til next March. The past cycle of updates would suggest an update in March/April 2005. Then, expect SATA drives and a 'boosted' vid card, perhaps everybody's favourite the 64 Meg FX5200 Ultra. And G5s
...so I guess you guys were correct in talking about vid cards, heat issues and fan noise
Anything is possible of course but do realize that the "E" in emac is for Education. I don't think we will see an eMac before the next buying season starts up. At that point (hopefully) Freescale will have e600 based processors to stuff in the unit.
It is not like a G5 eMac wouldn't be nice, but an e600 would allow Apple to produce a very nicely performing eMac for little $$$$$. Since the eMac is all about minimizing $$$, I don't see a big opportunty here to slap in any of the current 970's. Of course there is the reality that something might be in the wings for low cost 64 bit computing, I just don't see it coming any time soon.
You think about it Freescales projected delivery dates are very close to Apples revised eMac needs. Sounds good anyways.
Dave
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Originally posted by bicubic
Hey does anyone think the revised eMac will surface before Christmas? Or will Apple wait for MacWorld in Jan?
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Pardon? (I put my ear to the G5 Tower in stores and it seems whispher quiet to me...)
Lemon Bon Bon
Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon
Pardon? (I put my ear to the G5 Tower in stores and it seems whispher quiet to me...)
Lemon Bon Bon
Wish I could do that with my new iMac G5.
A clarification, if nothing else in the room is making noise, the high-pitched (though low in volume) whine is quite headache-inducing, at least for me. Now, if something else in the room is making noise (TV, fan, whatever), the iMac can't be heard.
Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon
Pardon? (I put my ear to the G5 Tower in stores and it seems whispher quiet to me...)
Lemon Bon Bon
Stores are notoriously noisy environments, and are usually air conditioned (often with good airflow to the machines). And you usually aren't running a heavy workload on the demo machines. Even in our fairly noisy, temperature-controlled office if I run certain code on that hardware it'll become noticable. Put the machine in (for example) my home theatre next to the 100W/channel AV receiver and then get it to do some video processing and it'll be very noticable... I can hear my projector and it is rated 8 db quieter than Apple claims for the G5. Use the 3D video card and in go the ear plugs.
So, if a Power Mac has a Radeon 9800 or a GeForce 6800, the loudest thing will probably be the graphics card fan.
Originally posted by ltong
Here's an idea: If Apple really wants to dominate the education market they need to make a headless eMac with standard VGA and PS/2 ports. Most schools simply swap out towers and leave the monitors/kb/mice to save money. Most schools also do not want to buy all new mice, keyboards and monitors for every new CPU they buy. If Apple did this, schools could swap out CPUs and not worry about buying $500 monitors. Of course an even better solution would be to make these headless eMacs with easily swapable processors. I can envision a mini tower with hidden handles on the side that you pull to remove various upgradable options. Like how hot swapable hard drives work today. Apple can release new processor upgrades every 6 months so schools don't have to replace entire machines.
I don't know if you follow along on the PC side at all, but even upgrading the CPU isn't just as easy as replacing a single chip. Especially after 2 or 3 revs of said chip. By this I mean, new chips take advantage of faster RAM or a faster/different FSB, etc. Usually after 8 months a PC person doesn't have much of an upgrade path unless they want to replace the whole motherboard. Which usually means buying new RAM as well. So while definitely cheaper than buying a whole new computer, it isn't as simple as you may think.
Basically there's a whole lot of computer parts getting flushed during an upgrade.
Originally posted by PBG4 Dude
I don't know if you follow along on the PC side at all, but even upgrading the CPU isn't just as easy as replacing a single chip. Especially after 2 or 3 revs of said chip. By this I mean, new chips take advantage of faster RAM or a faster/different FSB, etc. Usually after 8 months a PC person doesn't have much of an upgrade path unless they want to replace the whole motherboard. Which usually means buying new RAM as well. So while definitely cheaper than buying a whole new computer, it isn't as simple as you may think.
Basically there's a whole lot of computer parts getting flushed during an upgrade.
CPU daughtercards offer a lot of performance boost on one simple to replace board. If built around a G5 mobo you could gain a lot of performance with newer model processors that up clock and bus speeds, thus increasing performance. And I never suggested this be performed on PCs, I suggessted Apple make a Mac with PS/2 and VGA ports so schools won't have to buy all new mice keyboards and monitors.
If it's MacWorld then it better be a G5!
I need to know what size stocking I'm looking for.
Discussions about video cards, heat issues, that old chestnut - the Headless Mac, and fan noise...
There ain't no eMac around here...wait til next March. The past cycle of updates would suggest an update in March/April 2005. Then, expect SATA drives and a 'boosted' vid card, perhaps everybody's favourite the 64 Meg FX5200 Ultra. And G5s
...so I guess you guys were correct in talking about vid cards, heat issues and fan noise
It is not like a G5 eMac wouldn't be nice, but an e600 would allow Apple to produce a very nicely performing eMac for little $$$$$. Since the eMac is all about minimizing $$$, I don't see a big opportunty here to slap in any of the current 970's. Of course there is the reality that something might be in the wings for low cost 64 bit computing, I just don't see it coming any time soon.
You think about it Freescales projected delivery dates are very close to Apples revised eMac needs. Sounds good anyways.
Dave
Originally posted by bicubic
Hey does anyone think the revised eMac will surface before Christmas? Or will Apple wait for MacWorld in Jan?