BTX to get a big boost from Apple this fall?

[UNCjigga]

So I hear that Intel is developing the motherboard for the new Mac Pro (PowerMac G5 replacement) at Apple's request. The motherboard will supposedly feature two sockets, allowing for quadcore Conroe setups in the new Mac.

Welp, its my guess that Intel will use the BTX design philosophy it believes in so much in order to reduce the thermal footprint of two physical chips. If that's the case, the new Mac Pro could feature a sexy BTX-based case. I doubt it will be completely BTX compliant (i.e. I don't think you'd be able to swap in any BTX board--Apple would still love to do things a bit proprietary) but I think the layout would be similar.

Would this be enough to give BTX a boost? I know other PC makers have incorporated BTX into their designs--Dell and HP specifically--but they don't have the "cool" factor of Apple. I bet that if Apple adopts a BTX-like design, everyone will want to copy them.

 

[Looney]

Um all it is is how things are laid out. I doubt just because Apple does it, it's going to be 'cool' to use it. Of course, i wouldn't doubt that when BTX finally gets adopted more, people are going to say that it was due to Apple's influence.

 

[Aluvus]

I would say Dell's signing on had dramatically more influence than Apple could hope to... and BTX is still impressively unpopular.

 

[ProviaFan]

I would like to see a variant of the motherboard that Intel develops for Apple available for the general public to purchase (even if it won't run OSX/x86). Given their history with current PMG5's, Apple will push for plenty of PCI-E expansion, so hopefully the new motherboard will continue the trend of fewer legacy interfaces (shouldn't have any floppy or PS/2 ports, either!).

 

[Eug]

Conroe doesn't support dual dual AFAIK.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Eug
Conroe doesn't support dual dual AFAIK.

Hmm, maybe the mobo supports Conroe and its workstation counterpart (whose codename escapes me atm.)

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: Eug
Conroe doesn't support dual dual AFAIK.

Hmm, maybe the mobo supports Conroe and its workstation counterpart (whose codename escapes me atm.)

Woodcrest.

 

[IdaGno]

The use of "Apple" & "big" in the same sentence is oxymoronic.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: IdaGno
The use of "Apple" & "big" in the same sentence is oxymoronic.

the apple 30 inch cinema display is a big monitor

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: IdaGno
The use of "Apple" & "big" in the same sentence is oxymoronic.

Apple owns a big portion of the digital audio player market. And Apple owns a big portion of the legal music downloads market.

Apple's G5 tower is pretty big.

 

[GrammatonJP]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

Originally posted by: IdaGno
The use of "Apple" & "big" in the same sentence is oxymoronic.

the apple 30 inch cinema display is a big monitor

mine bigger but its something else..

jk..

btx was originaly invented to solve the over heating issue of intel cpus... now that they fix the original problem.. they dont really need btx.. it'll probably be on oem desktops but end users would not likely adopt it.. very rare btx mobo still..