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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=817
PowerMac server update set, interesting musings
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
August 19th 2002
Contrary to widely reported user EOL whining and carping, Apple is refreshing its
PowerMac server product line
Despite heavy reportage of user whining and carping vis-a-vis the disappearance of
PowerMac servers following the introduction of the new towers last week, Apple has
nevertheless posted a "coming soon" graphic on the Apple Store page flogging pro
desktops.
That Apple dares to naysay such a storm of naysayers heartens this lonely scribe.
"Mystery Mac"
SpyMac is carrying an interesting bit of speculation on the internals of the
just-introduced pro desktops, which are referred to as the "Mystery Macs."
"PowerJack," the author of the article and I assume a male given the overarchingly
silly nature of his nom de guerre, questions why Apple has included a power supply
that provides 286 watts more power than the ones built into the PC133 pro towers.
"Why does this new design require 286 Watts of additional power supply capacity over
the QuickSilver design it replaces?" queries the testosterone-charged pundit. "Yes,
that''s right, folks: The new MysteryMac has a power supply capacity almost double
that of the QuickSilver. And, my simple question is: Why?"
As the new PowerMacs are based on the Xserve architecture, the explanation could be
simply that it was cheaper and/or technically more desirable not change the overall
design/specs -- i.e. sometimes companies just do things because they''re convenient.
However, PowerJack speculates the extra juice may be a design feature that will be
needed for some new internal peripheral or even IBM-manufactured multi-core CPUs.
As peripheral proof of his "future feature" support hypothesis, PowerJack notes that
Apple has changed the way it lists power supply capacity "for the first time in their
company history" perhaps to obfuscate the increased power rating.
In conclusion, he asks, "Did they hope that ''nobody would notice?''" and answers
"Well, I noticed."
Is this pointless nitpicking or is this the first confirmed scat sighting of a Trojan
Horse backdoor to an IBM promulgated salvation from Moto-enforced CPU pergatory? Is a
new, uber internal (peripheral) lurking in the dungeons of 1 Infinite Loop? I''ll put
my money on nitpicking, but with the power requirements of Big Blue''s new PowerPC
chips still unknown its an interesting nit to pick.
P.S. Yes, the above is a blatant "highest form of praise" (i.e. copying) rendering of
the erstwhile Mac the Knife''s style.
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