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To use a keyboard shortcut, press and hold one or more modifier keys and then press the last key of the shortcut. For example, to use Command-C (copy), press and hold the Command key, then the C key, then release both keys. Mac menus and keyboards often use symbols for certain keys, including modifier keys:

On keyboards made for Windows PCs, use the Alt key instead of Option, and the Windows logo key instead of Command.

Some keys on some Apple keyboards have special symbols and functions, such as for display brightness , keyboard brightness , Mission Control, and more. If these functions aren't available on your keyboard, you might be able to reproduce some of them by creating your own keyboard shortcuts. To use these keys as F1, F2, F3, or other standard function keys, combine them with the Fn key.

Cut, copy, paste, and other common shortcuts

• Command-X: Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard.
• Command-C: Copy the selected item to the Clipboard. This also works for files in the Finder.
• Command-V: Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document or app. This also works for files in the Finder.
• Command-Z: Undo the previous command. You can then press Shift-Command-Z to Redo, reversing the undo command. In some apps, you can undo and redo multiple commands.
• Command-A: Select All items.
• Command-F: Find items in a document or open a Find window.
• Command-G: Find Again: Find the next occurrence of the item previously found. To find the previous occurrence, press Shift-Command-G.
• Command-H: Hide the windows of the front app. To view the front app but hide all other apps, press Option-Command-H.
• Command-M: Minimize the front window to the Dock. To minimize all windows of the front app, press Option-Command-M.
• Command-O: Open the selected item, or open a dialog to select a file to open.
• Command-P: Print the current document.
• Command-S: Save the current document.
• Command-T: Open a new tab.
• Command-W: Close the front window. To close all windows of the app, press Option-Command-W.
• Option-Command-Esc: Force quit an app.
• Command–Space bar: Show or hide the Spotlight search field. To perform a Spotlight search from a Finder window, press Command–Option–Space bar. (If you use multiple input sources to type in different languages, these shortcuts change input sources instead of showing Spotlight. Learn how to change a conflicting keyboard shortcut.)
• Control–Command–Space bar: Show the Character Viewer, from which you can choose emoji and other symbols.
• Control-Command-F: Use the app in full screen, if supported by the app.
• Space bar: Use Quick Look to preview the selected item.
• Command-Tab: Switch to the next most recently used app among your open apps.
• Shift-Command-5: In macOS Mojave or later, take a screenshot or make a screen recording. Or use Shift-Command-3 or Shift-Command-4 for screenshots. Learn more about screenshots.
• Shift-Command-N: Create a new folder in the Finder.
• Command-Comma (,): Open preferences for the front app.

Sleep, log out, and shut down shortcuts

You might need to press and hold some of these shortcuts for slightly longer than other shortcuts. This helps you to avoid using them unintentionally.

• Power button: Press to turn on your Mac or wake it from sleep. Press and hold for 1.5 seconds to put your Mac to sleep.* Continue holding to force your Mac to turn off.
• Option–Command–Power button* or Option–Command–Media Eject : Put your Mac to sleep.
• Control–Shift–Power button* or Control–Shift–Media Eject : Put your displays to sleep.
• Control–Power button* or Control–Media Eject : Display a dialog asking whether you want to restart, sleep, or shut down.
• Control–Command–Power button:* Force your Mac to restart, without prompting to save any open and unsaved documents.
• Control–Command–Media Eject : Quit all apps, then restart your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you will be asked whether you want to save them.
• Control–Option–Command–Power button* or Control–Option–Command–Media Eject : Quit all apps, then shut down your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you will be asked whether you want to save them.
• Control-Command-Q: Immediately lock your screen.
• Shift-Command-Q: Log out of your macOS user account. You will be asked to confirm. To log out immediately without confirming, press Option-Shift-Command-Q.

* Does not apply to the Touch ID sensor.

Finder and system shortcuts

• Command-D: Duplicate the selected files.
• Command-E: Eject the selected disk or volume.
• Command-F: Start a Spotlight search in the Finder window.
• Command-I: Show the Get Info window for a selected file.
• Command-R: (1) When an alias is selected in the Finder: show the original file for the selected alias. (2) In some apps, such as Calendar or Safari, refresh or reload the page. (3) In Software Update preferences, check for software updates again.
• Shift-Command-C: Open the Computer window.
• Shift-Command-D: Open the desktop folder.
• Shift-Command-F: Open the Recents window, showing all of the files you viewed or changed recently.
• Shift-Command-G: Open a Go to Folder window.
• Shift-Command-H: Open the Home folder of the current macOS user account.
• Shift-Command-I: Open iCloud Drive.
• Shift-Command-K: Open the Network window.
• Option-Command-L: Open the Downloads folder.
• Shift-Command-N: Create a new folder.
• Shift-Command-O: Open the Documents folder.
• Shift-Command-P: Show or hide the Preview pane in Finder windows.
• Shift-Command-R: Open the AirDrop window.
• Shift-Command-T: Show or hide the tab bar in Finder windows.
• Control-Shift-Command-T: Add selected Finder item to the Dock (OS X Mavericks or later)
• Shift-Command-U: Open the Utilities folder.
• Option-Command-D: Show or hide the Dock.
• Control-Command-T: Add the selected item to the sidebar (OS X Mavericks or later).
• Option-Command-P: Hide or show the path bar in Finder windows.
• Option-Command-S: Hide or show the Sidebar in Finder windows.
• Command–Slash (/): Hide or show the status bar in Finder windows.
• Command-J: Show View Options.
• Command-K: Open the Connect to Server window.
• Control-Command-A: Make an alias of the selected item.
• Command-N: Open a new Finder window.
• Option-Command-N: Create a new Smart Folder.
• Command-T: Show or hide the tab bar when a single tab is open in the current Finder window.
• Option-Command-T: Show or hide the toolbar when a single tab is open in the current Finder window.
• Option-Command-V: Move the files in the Clipboard from their original location to the current location.
• Command-Y: Use Quick Look to preview the selected files.
• Option-Command-Y: View a Quick Look slideshow of the selected files.
• Command-1: View the items in the Finder window as icons.
• Command-2: View the items in a Finder window as a list.
• Command-3: View the items in a Finder window in columns.
• Command-4: View the items in a Finder window in a gallery.
• Command–Left Bracket ([): Go to the previous folder.
• Command–Right Bracket (]): Go to the next folder.
• Command–Up Arrow: Open the folder that contains the current folder.
• Command–Control–Up Arrow: Open the folder that contains the current folder in a new window.
• Command–Down Arrow: Open the selected item.
• Right Arrow: Open the selected folder. This works only when in list view.
• Left Arrow: Close the selected folder. This works only when in list view.
• Command-Delete: Move the selected item to the Trash.
• Shift-Command-Delete: Empty the Trash.
• Option-Shift-Command-Delete: Empty the Trash without confirmation dialog.
• Command–Brightness Down: Turn video mirroring on or off when your Mac is connected to more than one display.
• Option–Brightness Up: Open Displays preferences. This works with either Brightness key.
• Control–Brightness Up or Control–Brightness Down: Change the brightness of your external display, if supported by your display.
• Option–Shift–Brightness Up or Option–Shift–Brightness Down: Adjust the display brightness in smaller steps. Add the Control key to this shortcut to make the adjustment on your external display, if supported by your display.
• Option–Mission Control: Open Mission Control preferences.
• Command–Mission Control: Show the desktop.
• Control–Down Arrow: Show all windows of the front app.
• Option–Volume Up: Open Sound preferences. This works with any of the volume keys.
• Option–Shift–Volume Up or Option–Shift–Volume Down: Adjust the sound volume in smaller steps.
• Option–Keyboard Brightness Up: Open Keyboard preferences. This works with either Keyboard Brightness key.
• Option–Shift–Keyboard Brightness Up or Option–Shift–Keyboard Brightness Down: Adjust the keyboard brightness in smaller steps.
• Option key while double-clicking: Open the item in a separate window, then close the original window.
• Command key while double-clicking: Open a folder in a separate tab or window.
• Command key while dragging to another volume: Move the dragged item to the other volume, instead of copying it.
• Option key while dragging: Copy the dragged item. The pointer changes while you drag the item.
• Option-Command while dragging: Make an alias of the dragged item. The pointer changes while you drag the item.
• Option-click a disclosure triangle: Open all folders within the selected folder. This works only when in list view.
• Command-click a window title: See the folders that contain the current folder.
• Learn how to use Command or Shift to select multiple items in the Finder.
• Click the Go menu in the Finder menu bar to see shortcuts for opening many commonly used folders, such as Applications, Documents, Downloads, Utilities, and iCloud Drive.

Document shortcuts

The behavior of these shortcuts may vary with the app you're using.

• Command-B: Boldface the selected text, or turn boldfacing on or off.
• Command-I: Italicize the selected text, or turn italics on or off.
• Command-K: Add a web link.
• Command-U: Underline the selected text, or turn underlining on or off.
• Command-T: Show or hide the Fonts window.
• Command-D: Select the Desktop folder from within an Open dialog or Save dialog.
• Control-Command-D: Show or hide the definition of the selected word.
• Shift-Command-Colon (:): Display the Spelling and Grammar window.
• Command-Semicolon (;): Find misspelled words in the document.
• Option-Delete: Delete the word to the left of the insertion point.
• Control-H: Delete the character to the left of the insertion point. Or use Delete.
• Control-D: Delete the character to the right of the insertion point. Or use Fn-Delete.
• Fn-Delete: Forward delete on keyboards that don't have a Forward Delete key. Or use Control-D.
• Control-K: Delete the text between the insertion point and the end of the line or paragraph.
• Fn–Up Arrow: Page Up: Scroll up one page.
• Fn–Down Arrow: Page Down: Scroll down one page.
• Fn–Left Arrow: Home: Scroll to the beginning of a document.
• Fn–Right Arrow: End: Scroll to the end of a document.
• Command–Up Arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the document.
• Command–Down Arrow: Move the insertion point to the end of the document.
• Command–Left Arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the current line.
• Command–Right Arrow: Move the insertion point to the end of the current line.
• Option–Left Arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word.
• Option–Right Arrow: Move the insertion point to the end of the next word.
• Shift–Command–Up Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the beginning of the document.
• Shift–Command–Down Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the end of the document.
• Shift–Command–Left Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the beginning of the current line.
• Shift–Command–Right Arrow: Select the text between the insertion point and the end of the current line.
• Shift–Up Arrow: Extend text selection to the nearest character at the same horizontal location on the line above.
• Shift–Down Arrow: Extend text selection to the nearest character at the same horizontal location on the line below.
• Shift–Left Arrow: Extend text selection one character to the left.
• Shift–Right Arrow: Extend text selection one character to the right.
• Option–Shift–Up Arrow: Extend text selection to the beginning of the current paragraph, then to the beginning of the following paragraph if pressed again.
• Option–Shift–Down Arrow: Extend text selection to the end of the current paragraph, then to the end of the following paragraph if pressed again.
• Option–Shift–Left Arrow: Extend text selection to the beginning of the current word, then to the beginning of the following word if pressed again.
• Option–Shift–Right Arrow: Extend text selection to the end of the current word, then to the end of the following word if pressed again.
• Control-A: Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph.
• Control-E: Move to the end of a line or paragraph.
• Control-F: Move one character forward.
• Control-B: Move one character backward.
• Control-L: Center the cursor or selection in the visible area.
• Control-P: Move up one line.
• Control-N: Move down one line.
• Control-O: Insert a new line after the insertion point.
• Control-T: Swap the character behind the insertion point with the character in front of the insertion point.
• Command–Left Curly Bracket ({): Left align.
• Command–Right Curly Bracket (}): Right align.
• Shift–Command–Vertical bar ( ): Center align.
• Option-Command-F: Go to the search field.
• Option-Command-T: Show or hide a toolbar in the app.
• Option-Command-C: Copy Style: Copy the formatting settings of the selected item to the Clipboard.
• Option-Command-V: Paste Style: Apply the copied style to the selected item.
• Option-Shift-Command-V: Paste and Match Style: Apply the style of the surrounding content to the item pasted within that content.
• Option-Command-I: Show or hide the inspector window.
• Shift-Command-P: Page setup: Display a window for selecting document settings.
• Shift-Command-S: Display the Save As dialog, or duplicate the current document.
• Shift–Command–Minus sign (-): Decrease the size of the selected item.
• Shift–Command–Plus sign (+): Increase the size of the selected item. Command–Equal sign (=) performs the same function.
• Shift–Command–Question mark (?): Open the Help menu.

Other shortcuts

For more shortcuts, check the shortcut abbreviations shown in the menus of your apps. Every app can have its own shortcuts, and shortcuts that work in one app might not work in another.

• Apple Music shortcuts: Choose Help > Keyboard shortcuts from the menu bar in the Music app.
• Other shortcuts: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Shortcuts.

Learn more

• Create your own shortcuts and resolve conflicts between shortcuts
• Change the behavior of the function keys or modifier keys

Picking on something that doesn't exist anymore is not a whole lot of fun when you get right down to it. There's no opportunity for an exchange of viewpoints escalating to a frank discussion (to borrow from the lexicon of diplomacy). Instead, the Search for the Historical Apple is like digging a deep well, and then when you hit water, you look down and see your own reflection, tinted Bondi Blue. With that in mind, Mac.Ars looks at the Apple That Was And Is No More, the Apple of a thousand cool technologies and projects that barely saw the light of day, the Apple that NeXT took over and reinvigorated. Why did Apple (the first) die, while Apple (the second) thrives? We'll also have a premature Apple Expo Paris wrap-up (it ends this Sunday).

If video killed the radio star, who killed Apple Computer?

A former Director of Marketing (among other things) for Apple, Michael Mace, has posted 'Who Killed Apple Computer', a reflection on his time working for Apple between 1987 and 1997. His essay is not intended as a critique of Apple's current direction or strategy, but is rather meant as a reflection of Apple's internal culture during the time he was there and why it didn't see the kind of success it hoped for. What makes it a particularly interesting topic at this point is that Apple is in a period of resurgence right now. The Dual 2.0 GHz G5 towers are shipping in volume (including 1,100 of them to Virginia Tech), the entire PowerBook line just got a long-overdue facelift, and the next revision of OS X, Panther, is due for release in the next three months. This parallels where Apple was at the close of the 80s/beginning of the 90s -- cool products and technologies either here or close to arrival. Yet Apple squandered its many advantages and nearly became totally irrelevant a scant half-decade later. What happened?

I did it. I killed Apple Computer.

Of course you helped too, if you worked there. Sure, we were assisted by a number of feckless executives, and by venal behavior at Microsoft. But more than anything else, Apple -- the old Apple we knew and loved, the one we're celebrating here -- was destroyed by its own diseased and dysfunctional culture. By the time Steve Jobs returned to the scene, very little could be saved. I salute him for what he accomplished; I don't think anyone else on this Earth could have pulled it off. And maybe the new Apple he's building will someday have the same authority and heft as the old one. But let's not lose sight of the fact that he had to burn the old company to the ground in order to salvage something viable out of it.

Ouch. How was the grisly deed accomplished? By a number of means, chief of which seems to have been a passive-aggressive stubborn refusal to play nice with one another:

It's easy to blame all these failures on the company's senior execs, but frankly, I don't think they were powerful enough to inflict damage this comprehensive. Far too often, the problem was that we didn't work together toward common goals. This was partly due to the usual politics you get in any large company, but in addition we all believed we were so smart that we were unwilling to compromise and follow the visions of others. Passive resistance was the company's dominant culture. We'd sit in meetings and smile and nod at the plan of the day, then go back to our offices and swear about how stupid that idea was and how we were damned if we'd every cooperate with it.

New buzzwords and super-secret project names (some of which were attached to actual technologies!) flew out of Cupertino at a dizzying pace during that time. The lack of an overarching, compelling, and authoritative vision at Apple as described above kept the majority of them from catching on or even being released. Look at all the technologies that either never saw the light of day, or were quickly snuffed out after release: Pink, Taligent, Kaleida, OpenDoc, Jaguar (the first), Copland, Sybil... the list goes on.

Some of the readers who have been using Macs or following the product line for some time will no doubt recognize some of these names from the past, much like the half-lit light bulb that goes on when looking through your high school yearbook 15 years after graduation ('Devon Torkel . . . wasn't he that nerdy guy who used to get upset when someone else got to run the projector during health class?'). For those of you who don't recognize these products that emerged stillborn from Apple's birth canal, here's the 411:

• Pink was Apple's first attempt at the operating system of the future. Originally conceived in the late 80s as a possible successor to System 6, Pink was to have been an object-oriented OS running on a microkernel. It was a very forward-looking project, but found itself on the outside looking in as Apple's Operating System of the More Immediate Future, System 7, began growing to Xbox-like proportions. System 7 was a great leap forward for the Mac OS, and as such was quite resource-hungry, leaving little room for Pink. Pink also fell victim to the culture Michael Mace describes, as people were cherry picked off of it and the project itself was marginalized within Apple until . . .
• Taligent came along. Taligent was launched in 1992 as a joint venture between Apple and IBM. The original ideas from Pink were rolled into Taligent, which was also to have been an object-oriented OS. Instead, it became more of an application development framework and was gradually rolled back into IBM between 1996 and 1998, first becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary, and then completely absorbed.
• Kaleida Labs was another joint venture between Apple and IBM, also launched in 1992 'to develop and license an open software standard for multimedia development and playback.'
  Its main accomplishments were fighting over job responsibilities and developing a multimedia programming language (Script-X), according to the obituary that appeared in a November 1995Business Week. Script-X was also to have been the basis for the mysterious Apple set-top boxes that occasionally pop up on ebay to this very day.
• Jaguar (the first) was to have been a new RISC-based PC that would not have had backward compatibility with older Macs. It was based on an new Motorola chip -- the 88110 -- which was eventually used by NeXT, and ran a version of UNIX. In its excellent write-up the original Jaguar, Architosh notes that this too, fell victim to the diseased corporate culture at Apple.
• OpenDoc made it further into the light of day than any other Apple project, with a couple of applications actually being released and adopted by a few brave souls. It was a cross-platform, document-centric programming environment, which attempted to place the document (cart) before the application (horse). IBM and Novell were involved in making it truly cross-platform and portable, but they lost interest in the project for a number of reasons and the barely-breathing husk of a technology was euthanized shortly after Steve Jobs returned to Apple. It saw release as a part of System 7.5, and I actually used the OpenDoc web browser Cyberdog as my default browser for a while. Nisus Software's Nisus Writer word processor also used it.
• Copland. Where to begin? Copland was the Next Big Thing in the early- to mid-1990s. It was the ambitious project to bring a fully-modern, multi-threaded, memory-protected operating system to current Mac hardware while keeping full backward compatibility with System 7. It included Apple's first attempt at themes (including the famous gizmo and high-tech themes, abominations that are probably a large part of the reason Steve Jobs wants everyone's OS X GUI to look identical) and was to have run on PPC 60x-based hardware. An alpha version was shown MacWorld in 1996, but the demo crashed repeatedly, and it never made it out the door. Some of the technologies were gradually incorporated into OS 8 and later releases, but it was the utter failure of Copland that spurred Apple to look for alternatives for its next-generation OS.

There was much to be admired in that list of failed projects in terms of interesting technology, but Apple could never get it together well enough to actually ship one of them. Mace identifies the problem:

Those of us who were managers often failed to insist that our teams work together. Instead of integrating them to cooperate toward a goal, we settled into walled fortresses, protecting our projects and budgets from attack by others. Ideas and initiatives from the outside were rejected as vigorously as your body's immune system rejects a germ.

We told ourselves that our core competency was designing user interfaces, but we were better at designing t-shirts and org charts. In ten years at Apple I worked in basically three roles, but reported into 12 different VPs.

We all wanted to be chefs. Nobody wanted to be a busboy. Our senior managers lacked the wisdom or the will to call off the game. And so our company fell.

The end result of this is that Apple squandered what advantages it had over alternative computing platforms. One can argue that Apple should have followed the lead of IBM and let other companies build less-expensive clones. The competition may very well have driven prices down and increased the market share of System 6 and System 7. Given the dark picture of the culture at Apple painted by Mace, it is difficult to believe that it would have made much difference.

How does the Apple of today differ from the Ghost of Apple Past? The largest difference is Apple's single-minded focus. Despite branching out into different markets (e.g., enterprise with Xserve, education with the iBook and eMac, and consumer electronics with the iPod), all of the products are designed to work closely with one another and are tightly integrated into OS X. In addition, there are far fewer of them than there were 10 years ago. Let's compare the product lines from then and now. In 1993 you could choose from the following mind-bending, hydra-like selection of Apple product (all of which were shipping during that year):

• Centris 610, Centris 650, Centris 660av
• Mac LC III, LC 520, LC III+, LC 475
• Macintosh IIci, Macintosh IIvx
• Mac Classic II, Color Classic II
• Quadra 800, Quadra 840av, Quadra 660av, Quadra 605, Quadra 610, Quadra 950
• Performa 405, Performa 430, Performa 450, Performa 410, Performa 475, Performa 460, Performa 550,
• Macintosh TV (!)
• WGS 60, WGS 80, WGS 95
• PowerBook 145, PowerBook 145B, PowerBook 165, PowerBook 165c, PowerBook 180
• PowerBook Duo 250, PowerBook Duo 270, PowerBook Duo 270c

Contrast that dizzying array of Quadras, Centrises, Performas, and Classics with the current line-up:

• iMac 15', 17'
• iBook 12', 14'
• PowerBook 12', 15', 17'
• eMac
• PowerMacintosh G4, G5
• Xserve

Apple may have been killed in the 1990s by the screwed-up, me-first culture that pervaded the company combined with a stunning lack of focus and commitment to external partnerships. Of course, some of the partners back then left much to be desired -- not many companies in the tech sector saw the benefit of cooperation, preferring to work towards dominating the market themselves (which was only successful for one of them). Perhaps Steve Jobs had a late-night visit from the ghost of Michael Spindler a few years ago. Whatever the reason -- and hopefully an ability to learn from the past is a large part of it -- Apple is a much more focused company, eyeing markets and technologies carefully, and choosing to go after only those in which it believes it can successfully compete. And they still have cool nicknames.

Early Apple Expo Paris wrap-up

Faced with the choice of waiting for the 2003 Apple Expo Paris to wrap up and writing about it and meeting the deadline for Mac.Ars, I shrewdly have elected to have my cake and eat it too. Thus, my somewhat premature take on the goings-on of Steve and the Aqua Blue Crew in Paris.

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First of all, new PowerBooks. Finally. As I noted in my news write-up on them, overall they are a solid update with one caveat: no L3 cache. What happened to it? The previous incarnation of the 15' and 17' PowerBooks both had it. Perhaps the 7455, used in the previous 15' and 17' PBs couldn't be clocked up faster, and the fabled 7457 still isn't ready. A processor family such as the 74xx with its addled FSB benefits greatly from L3 cache which helps keep the CPU saturated. At least they bumped the L2 cache on all the lines up to 512K.

It was also heartening to hear Steve Jobs reaffirm Apple's (and thus IBM's) commitment to ship a 3 GHz G5 by the end of next summer. As I have said before, it is highly unusual for Apple to give such insight into product plans, especially committing to certain speeds in a specific timeframe. Doing so signals to the market that Apple will be competitive with the CPUs powering its high-end line for some time. It invites speculation as to the timing of product refreshes on the G5 line. Apple generally goes around 6 months between speed bumps (the recent PowerBook drought being the exception), so there should be one iteration of the G5 between now and the 3 GHz models (MacWorld San Francisco anybody?). This Apple-IBM partnership will definitely bear more fruit than Kaleida and Taligent.

Apple also introduced its new Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, both of which have a 30-foot range and 128-bit encryption. They're white, which I don't think matches the G5 too well (perhaps I need a visit from Queer Eye for the Mac Guy). The mouse still is basically one big button which is aesthetically very cool, but kind of impractical in an OS that has excellent contextual menu support.

Aside from the new hardware, there have been a few software announcements, although nothing of the magnitude of Quark 6 a couple of months ago. Quickly, there are inTouch and RemoteTunes from Ovolab, previews of the Cumulus digital asset management tools from Canto, and Piranesi for OS X, a 3-D painting application for producing hand-drawn effects on 3-D models.

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MacWorld UK has a brief write-up on a conversation with Apple SVP of Hardware Engineering Jon Rubinstein. While repeating the Apple company mantra of 'it is not Apple's policy to comment on unannounced products,' he nonetheless gave some insight into the possibility of a G5 PowerBook. Getting the G5 into a PowerBook enclosure is essentially 'an issue of good, solid engineering.' The current line of G5s is strictly for desktop machines. Given the incredible amount of thought put into cooling the PowerMac G5, I fear that using a PowerBook G5 at this time would cause my pants to smoulder, leaving third-degree burns on my leg. Ok, so maybe it wouldn't be as hot as a Rev. A 12' PowerBook, but a cooler-running version will be necessary for the Apple professional laptop line to transition away from the Motorola 74xx. Given the fact that he was willing to acknowledge the possibility of this happening, it's easy to conclude that Apple is indeed working on getting the PPC 970 into thin aluminum enclosures. It is also useful to note that it was once thought impractical to have a portable running a G4.

If you're looking for some further education about the Apple CPU line-up, check out a couple of threads in Macintoshian Achaia. First is the Official 2nd Perpetual 970 and G5 Architecture thread. Also check out the G3 and G4 processors and news thread. There are some really good insight in both of these threads, thanks to the PPC CPU experts that post regularly there.

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