10-23-2012, 11:20 PM
lost in space wrote:
[quote=Buzz]
[quote=Zoidberg]
Always loved the lamp-style iMac. I wonder if, had Apple switched to Intel sooner, the lamp model might have lasted a few more iterations. It's main failing, as I recall, was that the G5 chip needed too much space/cooling to work in the "lamp base".
there may be a nugget in that statement...
I'm guessing efficiency wasn't the G5 CPU's strongest point.
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Case in point. They got it squeezed into the G5 iMac, which was a cooling/ventilation disaster.
How do you figure? They didn't have overheating problems. They had bad capacitor problems. The same ones that plagued every PC builder from Apple to Dell at that time.