[DM-MUG] Speculative Specifications on new Powermacs at Thinksecret

[Bailey Ford]

Sure... you want me to elaborate on the water cooling system going 
away? The current dual 2.5 GHz machine uses this liquid cooling system. 
The new machines will not use this system. One of the rumors said that 
the cooling system was only rated to last 2.5 years, but I think only 
time will tell on that one. I have not heard of it being a big issue to 
date. Just in general though, I'd rather keep all the wet stuff away 
from thousands of dollars of very-not-waterproof computer chips. It is 
presumed that Apple would prefer not to use liquid cooling to keep 
costs down. Why don't the new systems need liquid cooling? Because they 
are using a new chip. The current G5 Powermacs use the IBM 970FX chip. 
The next round of machines is supposed to use the 970GX or 970MP - 
which are the single and dual core versions of iteration 3 of the 970. 
When I talk about a chip being dual core, it means it basically has 2 
CPUs together on the same chip. Using 2 of these chips would give you 4 
processing units working in tandem to totally kick some data processing 
butt.

The same rumor page (www.thinksecret.com) says that iMacs will get 
updates to 2.0 GHz and that the eMac will get a boost too.

It is really easy to get swept away by such specific predictions, but 
these are just rumors. Starting to get exciting though...

-bailey

On Apr 15, 2005, at 12:17 AM, John Kisner wrote:

> Bailey,
>
> Could you elaborate on this?  Have there been problems?
>
> I'm also curious about what a "970MX" and a "970GX" are, but I figure 
> it's one of those "if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand it 
> anyway" things.
>
> Finally, am I correct that only new PowerMacs are expected at this 
> time?  Is there any rumor of "whither iMac/eMac"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Kisner
>
> On Apr 14, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Bailey Ford wrote:
>
>> Apparently, the water cooling thing is gone (longevity issues).
>
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