Hey Group, A topic meant to stir the pot . . .
One of Apple?s brightest trainers who graces MacTown with his presence daily, Kevin White forwarded the link below to our staff. http://www.powerbookcentral.com/columns/hildreth_moore/g5g4.shtml The highlights: ? G5s were designed for mainframes NOT laptops... thus they consume FIVE TIMES THE POWER of a standard G4... not to mention needing at least three fans to cool the damn thing... thus the no PowerBook G5 ? Just because a G5 is 64-bit DOES NOT MAKE IT FASTER... it's the other things like the memory bus, the higher Mhz speed, and the huge caches that make it faster. ? If you slowed a G5 down enough in Mhz (to reduce power consumption and heat) to be put inside a laptop it would be SLOWER than the current G4s. ? Motorola is working on dual core, high memory speed "G4" type processors that look very promising for future PowerBooks. In short... we don't need G5 laptops... if we can get G4s that are almost as fast!! Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050302/88dbf1fb/attachment.html
