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The
new PR of Apple Italy introduces Tom Boger (PowerMac Worldwide Product
Marketing) that will show us the features of the new powerful Apple
desktop.
The Apple logo on both sides is not painted but "drawn"
trough the process of anodyzation applied to the whole Aluminium
case.
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The
hearth of the new system is the well known PPC 970 renamed "G5"
by Apple and IBM. Here is the wafer produced in the modern IBM factory
in East Fishkill, New York
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Here
is a close look to the wafer: 150 64 Bits G5 chips on this discus
with 130 nn copper circuitry on SOI - Silicon On Insulator.
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Tom
Boger opens the PowerMac G5 using the handle on the back (ses details
later) and shows the absolute lack of flying cables on the inside.
The whole area is protected by a special trasparent panel (Tom is
handling it) the allows the separated ventilation of the different
areas.
If it's removed the G5 doesn't start at all.
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This
is the side view with the 3 different areas cooled by 9 different
low velocity fans controlled by the system.
On the lower picture you can see the bottom of the computer with
4 little rubber feet. You can se also a writing "quiet"
so that could be a final low noise prototype.
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A
semi-lateral view of the G5: with front a back sides wholly "trasparent
to air" thanks to the little holes in the Aluminium.
The air that flows in this direction gets warmer and the fans turning
at low speed help sending it to the back.
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This
is the lower part of the front side with the same design for the
handles that act like a foot similarly to the previous G4 models.
You can also find an hearphone plug, USB and Firewire 400 together
with the power button and the little reset button..
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Rounded
top front, a detail of the holes: the G5 show proudly its powerful
inners.
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You
can easily remove several internal components thanks to the easy
access to the inside and the lack of screws.
If you remove the plastic side panel you can easily remove the hard
drives and the two bigger fan.
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One
of the two serial-ATA drives that you can mount inside on the upper
sector of G5.
Take a look at the small unlocker that frees the drive for the extraction,
the new small serial ata connector is easy to remove.
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Also
the optical drive (SuperDrive) is easily removable justi in one
second: it can slide out like the hard drives without unscrewing
anything.
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In
these 2 pictures you can take a look at the bigger internal area
of the G5, the one that hosts the 2 processors and the Ram. Take
also a look a the mainboard on the background.
In front of the big fans you can see the Ram (a maximum 8GB is allowed)
You can extract the 2 fans simply pulling out the gray handle, again
with no screws to remove.
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This
the area for the expansions, This is the AGP 8X Pro Video Board
with the empy PCI
(3 @ 33 MHz 64 bit on the base model) or PCI-X slots (1 @ 100 MHz
64 bit and 2 PCI @ 133 MHz 64 bit).
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This
is tha ingenious hande on the back that not only opens the G5 side
panel but can also secure your G5, the Ram, the PCI boards, the
hard drive and even the processors from theft.
You can lock the opening using a kesington locker to insure all
the precious inners of your G5.
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The
front panel of the optical drive now slides downward revealing a
standard DVD-RW tray. It's not possible to mount two optical peripheral
on the front like in the previous G4 model.
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On
the back of PowerMac G5, on top of the infinite number of connections
available you can mount (just over the Optical audio in and out
connections) 2 antennas for connecting wirelessly to other devices
via AirPort Extreme and/or Bluetooth. This solution is forced by
the high screening power of aluminiun that would have make any internal
antenna unuseful.
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These
are the little standard antennas that you have to mount on the back
of the G5. The one for bluetooth resembles a cellular antenna and
the one for Airport/Wi.Fi can be rotated in order to obtain a better
polarization according to the model of portable used.
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Next
step: iSight
and iChat AV shown (together with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Developer
Preview) from Chris Bourdon (Senior Product Line Manager, Worldwide
Product Manager).
Images and comments on the next
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Other close pictures of the new G5 taken at WWDC are on 
A full
keynote report with pictures and comments is on