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Update: Page 2 has pics of the dual 1GHz G4's cooling and the GF4 video!

I have worked with Apple Computers for about 18 months now, as I have a part time apprenticeship at an Apple Authorised Retailer. We often do repairs on Apples, thus I have learned how they go together and how they work. When I started working, I was one of the most Anti-Apple guys you could find. Now that I have worked with them for more than a year, I have found that there are a lot of things that us PC Users could learn from Apple. Below are pictures of two diffent techniques Apple use to cool thier G3 Titanium iBook and the G3 iMac (Base Model).

All images in this article link to larger versions.

Apple Titanium iBook Heat Exchanger:

The sheilding used on the iBook is made of Titanium for its good looks and lightweight properties.

Here you can see the heat exchanger. Opposite the ram module is the cpu plate, which has a copper pipe connected to a heatsink behind the fan.

This is a closeup picture of the copper pipe and fan.

The heat exchanger has been removed, showing the iBook's CPU.

This is the actual heat exchanger assembly.

 

From the G3 iMac:

A picture of the metal block. (See picture 3)

The G3 CPU, which looks very similar to the AMD Core.

This image (and the first one) are actually upside down. The iMac is turned upside down to take the bottom of it off, and the motherboard is removed to reveal the cpu cooler which is basically a metal block that absorbs the heat from the G3 cpu and dissipates it into the metal plate that divides the monitor section of the iMac and the bottom section that houses the motherboard.

Any questions about this page can be directed to Kieran (FreeFrag).

NEXT PAGE: Cooling the Dual 1GHz G4 (and pics of the GF4!)

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