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Apple announces new G5 iMac!

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Stilly:
the g4 looked cooler

Paladin9:

quote:Originally posted by WMD:
My biggest gripe with the iMac was lack of a fan.

It has a kind-of fan now.
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Why do you want it to have a fan?  I like the lack of noise in computers with less/no fans.

hm_murdock:
Fan = longevity.

'Nuff said.

I'll bet if the G3 Radeon iBooks had a better cooling system, then they wouldn't have had those awful problems that kept killing them.

Although, I guess you can't really fault Apple for GayTI's faulty parts.

WMD:

quote:Originally posted by Paladin:
Why do you want it to have a fan?  I like the lack of noise in computers with less/no fans.
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Aha!  

This new iMac only has 3 tiny fans on the bottom, which Apple says spin at 100s of RPMs.  That'll make virtually no noise.

Not to mention, the case is 2" thick and that INCLUDES the monitor.  Very cramped.  Too small for heat pipes...and don't get me started on convection cooling.  This is a G5 system with a modern (low-end) video card.

Remember the Apple III?  It got hot enough that over time (read:months), some chips melted off the motherboard, due to convection cooling not handling it.

That was 1980.

cocoamix:
I bought an eMac just a few months ago.
Now I wish I had waited. Oh well, I'll probably still get one and give my girlfriend the eMac to replace her old 500Mhz graphite iMac.

As you can probably tell, I'm a big fan of AIOs.

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