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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: timcrawf on Apr 01, '04 10:13:20AM

Actually, this worked great on me. Before reading past the headline, I opened a new window to Apple's site, and saw nothing about it, went to MacCentral, nothing. Go back to macosxhints, and read the date under the headline, there is the first clue.
Some other cluess:
The naming of the device and Steve'a explanation of it.
The comments about the water cooling system not ready for prime time.
The bit about making the most of the extra 6" by adding a few more ports.
These are the more obvious clues to me.



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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: robg on Apr 01, '04 11:11:13AM

Indeed, I tried to bury enough stuff to make it just believable but completely impossible.

As someone else pointed out, you cannot make a three-CPU G5 machine. "Wicked fast" is an old marketing term from the IIfx days. Pixar wouldn't have taken the order for the Dual G5s if they knew these were out on April 1st (which they would have known). The pull-tab is off center for the fans. There's no additional room on the case front for the three additional ports. IBM hasn't said a word about 2.5ghz G5 chips. Steve would never admit to a water cooling system until it was released. There are others, too, but those are the biggies :).

The idea was to make it realistic yet filled with enough fallacies that it couldn't possibly be true :). And besides, the Photoshopped G5 Quad was really ugly, so it became a Cubed!

-rob.



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