#WINE FOR MAC G5 PORTABLE#

You'll Get Your Mac news Here From Now on. The Mac Observer: Daily Mac News, Reviews, and Tips. 'Apple is concerned about preserving the entire mobile experience, as opposed to just putting a G5 in a box and sticking a handle on it.' 'A G5 PowerBook is going to happen, but not as soon as a lot of people would like,' Gartenberg said. Michael Gartenberg, an analyst for Jupiter Research, said he would be surprised to see a PowerBook G5 in 2005. Last month, Apple VP Tim Cook called a PowerBook G5 'the mother of all thermal challenges.' While Apple managed to squeeze the G5 into the two-inch thick iMac, halving that width is proving to be a daunting task. 'Those would not be design choices that Apple would want to pursue.'

#WINE FOR MAC G5 PORTABLE#

While the current PowerPC 970FX processor Apple uses in its Power Mac G5 systems has power management features that would help in developing a mobile G5 system, Apple is looking not just at sticking the 64-bit processor in a portable package, but providing a solution as light and elegant as current PowerBooks.Īt present, a PowerBook G5 would 'be this really thick, heavy notebook, and it would be loud as all get-out,' said Kevin Krewell, editor in chief of the Microprocessor Report. 'It is fair to say that incorporating a G5 into a notebook as thin and light as the PowerBook is extremely difficult,' David Moody, vice president of worldwide Mac product marketing at Apple, told CNET on Monday. In updating its PowerBook G4 line Monday, Apple reiterated that a G5-based laptop is still a ways away, CNET reports.

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