Nah.skip0110Now Sage can jump in and let me know that a PowerBook is thinner, you can't get it with a G5 processor, etc; all the subtle differneces I failed to notice. My point is, just a Power Mac G5.
Lucky indeed....SageAnd lucky me, my dad even likes it, and is considering buying one.
I was thinking of two things....SageBTW skip, you cite the problems of a laptop as being "miniaturized components" – what exactly did you have in mind? The only things that cross my mind as being miniature on most laptops these days are screens and keyboards, and obviously this isn't the case with the iMac (17" and 20" screens, external full-size keyboard), unless of course I'm missing something obvious.
Actually (this surprised me too), both the base iMac and Power Mac have an 80 GB Serial ATA HD running at 7200 RPM, and both have higher models with 160 GB drives (also at 7200 RPM).skip0110Lucky indeed....
Laptop hard drives are normally physically smaller and slower (both the RPM and the seek times) than desktop hard drives in the Intel world. I would assume that the iMac has a slimmer and thus slower hard drive than the Power Macs.
If I recall correctly (I'm going off of memory, so I could be wrong), the Xserve doesn't have the same "cooling zones" system as the Power Mac (where the computer is divided into 5 different zones instead of trying to cool the whole thing with two fans that will hopefully suck air throughout the whole unit)Â… the iMac has 3 cooling zones:The fans and heatsinks, of course. Power Mac G5s have big windmill-like fans and lots of holes in the case. I heard rumors that rackmout Xserves were overheating, so I wonder how Apple was able to keep temps down in the small confines of the iMac. (I speak from experience with my P4-powered laptop, which gets very hot compared to similar desktops.) The same heating concerns apply to the video card, you have a lot of heat being generted without much space to dissipate it.