On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 04:15:40PM -0400, Neal Gittleman wrote: > > Brad: > For me, the hybrid CD alone will be a Godsend as I intend to buy a Mac > soon (whenever the G5 Powerbooks come out) and I'll be glad not to have > to deal with two separate pieces of software. > > Me: > Just before I bought my 15" G4 PowerBook (with which I am extremely > happy and on which FinMac2k4c works -- knock-wood fine and fast), I > consulted with a friend of mine, a retired Mac salesman, who > continually keeps his finger on the Apple pulse. He said that there > ain't gonna be no G5 PowerBooks... that the G5 chip generates way too > much heat for the laptop chassis to handle. Now, he may be wrong, but > he isn't wrong often, and given how sensitive the G4 PowerBooks are to > the heat they generate, his claim certainly seems plausible... > > That's not to say that there won't be more PowerBooks, or G6 > PowerBooks, or even G5 PowerBooks. But you might be waiting a while...
There may eventually be G5 PowerBooks, but it'll take a while due to the heat dissipation problem, just as it took over a year after the G4 desktops came out before a G4 PowerBook was available. --Lynn -- Lynn Gold "net.fogey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Writer, Protego Networks (weekdays) <-- day job News Anchor, KLIV-AM (weekends) <-- second job Singer, Songwriter, and Punster at Large <-- even when they don't pay me _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
