Apple G5 PowerBook
p2pnet.net News:- Wither the Apple G5 PowerBook?
Having somewhat revamped the G4 instead of announcing a forthcoming G5 laptop, Apple apparently isn’t merely exercising more of its marketing coyness.
Yesterday Applets learned a PowerBook G5 won’t be arriving any time soon and Apple had updated its PowerBook G4 to fill the gap.
“”It is fair to say that incorporating a G5 into a notebook as thin and light as the PowerBook is extremely difficult,” CNET News quotes Apple spokesman David Moody as saying, more or less echoing a statement made by another Apple man, Tom Boger who, last September, told the Mac Observer not to expect the G5 in a portable for the forseeable future.
“The new iMac G5 (desktop) is thin, but (the G5) is not thin enough for a laptop right now,” Boger said. “There are great challenges in putting a G5 processor in a laptop. The issues range from power to cooling and its overall size…You’re not going to see a G5 in a laptop anytime soon.”
But then again, Apple didn’t have much to say when rumours started flying about the launch of the Mac mini.
That being so, let’s hope no one close to Apple decides to upset Steve & Co again by spilling the beans about anything new in advance of its release.
Apple, in the midst of a new Pepsi-Apple bottle promo, is suing Think Secrets’ Nick Ciarelli who, under his nom de plume Nick dePlume, revealed Steve & Co were about to launch a cheap Mac in the shape of the mini.
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See:-
revamped the G4 – Apple’s ‘new’ PowerBook G4, p2pnet, January 31, 2005
extremely difficult – PowerBooks speed up, do new tricks, CNET News, February 1, 2005
great challenges – Apple Exec: No G5 Laptop “Anytime Soon”, Mac Observer, September 1, 2004
bottle promo – New Pepsi Apple iTunes ads, p2pnet, January 19, 2005
