On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:34:36 +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
>
>> Yet the Apple Cube was a fanless G4... granted it had a special
>>non-standard physical layout, but after so much time it should be possible
>>to make a fanless G4. I would be the first in the queue for such a
>>system -- if I had the money, that is.
>>
> Ok, so you would rather want a 400MHz G4 than an 800MHz G4? Of course
> you could run the newer G4 cpus that slow and probably get away with no
> fan. But to run at the full speed they need fans these days...
The Apple Cube was a fanless 400MHz G4 three years ago. One
would think in three years process progress would have enabled a
fanless or slow fan 800MHz G4. Either Apple had a patent on
dissipation techniques, or Motorola has been very slow in progressing,
or integrators don't see the need.
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