any guesses as to when we can expect g5 powerbooks?

[staen]

I would hope for the upcoming holidays. anyone heard some buzz?

 

[crankz1]

I'm not a Mac guy, but it seems as though I read somewhere that the g5 won't be offered in the power books.
Of course the marketing department may sway the manufacturing department's opinion if the demand is great enough.
I guess it's one of those things where only time will tell.

 

[brzilian]

Use Google.

A G5 powerbook is nowhere close to becoming reality - too many heat issues.

 

[manning1]

staen. amd64 laps have been coming out recently.
very fast. with new amd manufacturing processes, imho this is going to be a hot market segment.
what do you want to do ?
i might be able to help.
in the interim check some of the recording forums around the net like audioforums.com, nuendo.com, and cakewalk.com and gearslutz.com to get a flavor of why people are excited about the amd processor and how they are using it currently.

 

[staen]

thanks for the opinons, I am looking to mainly run ableton live and reason right now.

 

[dwillis45]

At two inches thick, the new imac G5 might as well be a laptop!

 

[brzilian]

At two inches thick, the new imac G5 might as well be a laptop!

Good luck try running it on batteries and having it last more than a minute...

 

[greenbaysucks]

...

G5 laptops won't happen unless a magical new method of liquid cooling (or whatever they're using) happens. you gotta wonder what they were thinking when they introduced this thing in their desktops.

 

[ds21]

At two inches thick, the new imac G5 might as well be a laptop!

My friend just got one of those last friday, with the airport and wireless mouse and keyboard... I feel sorry for him, but had to laugh, He said "their really cool just one plug to plug in and your all set" he's a devoted mac guy, anyway he gets the thing and I call him that night and he's been working on it for about 5-6 hours and can't get the wireless stuff to play nice togather, he called mac and they said they'll get back to him on thursday, he went on their forum and it's not a isloated problem, I tried telling him spend the extra and get a desktop G5...