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Is there any impetus to the Walt Mossberg quote in the article? He's not really a universally accepted unbiased computer design critic. It really detracts from the rest of this article's professionalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.246.236.40 (talk) 14:15, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, i removed this one from the category:Industrial design examples
Dis computer was not successful enough.
Still, what a beautiful looking machine! ♥♥ ΜÏΠЄSΓRΘΠ€ ♥♥ slurp me! 01:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Will there be a G6? --BlooWilt 20:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Some iMac G5 computers have been shipped earlier on with poorly seated RAM, so, when the iMac G5 with poorly seated RAM was turned on, the user would hear three beeps, and then the fan inside it would turn on and go full blast. You would not be able to boot it from any disk or external hard drive, because the RAM needs to be seated right.
Also, some iMac G5s had been locking up their system after at leat 40 minutes out of the box. Not many of these incidents have been reported.
The most rare problem ever recorded with the G5 iMac is when the screen seemed to "melt" everytime it was powered on. No boot disk or hard drive would solve this.
The lede describes this computer as: "...using the PowerPC chip architecture." AFAIK, PowerPC refers to the PowerPC instruction set architecture or PowerPC-branded microprocessors. "Chip architecture" implies microarchitecture, which PowerPC is not. It needs to be clarified. Rilak (talk) 14:38, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
The G5 Imac did not have "advanced cooling". They had "inadequate" cooling. The GPU and CPU were 130 nanometer components that were intended for desktops, not a design like this. The capacitors would literally cook inside of the computer. Another issue is that the combined power used by the CPU, GPU, chipset, LCD monitor, multiple case fans, DVD-ROM, network card, and USB devices was nearly what the power supply was capable of providing at peak capacity only. The CPU alone was about a 50 watt part. This means that the power supplies would quickly deteriorate. The G5 iMacs were the worst iMacs ever made. This is well known and as a result they are the cheapest on the used market. As of 2019, a used 233 MHz iMac goes for twice as much as a G5 iMac. There is a reason for that. 184.88.69.182 (talk) 06:48, 19 April 2019 (UTC)