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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / December 2006G5 Macs leaking
Was reading at Macfixit about people with G5s having liquid coolant leaking after about 20 months. Yikes! Something to look forward to come March or so. Anybody seeing this? I'm just wondering how widespread it is. Is it inevitable or will some of us dodge the bullet? Ruby > Was reading at Macfixit about people with G5s having liquid coolant > leaking after about 20 months. Yikes! Something to look forward to come [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Ruby Bullshit! You can count on one hand the number of people making such reports. Plenty of hand wringing and FUD going around, however. You're a hundred times more likely to suffer a logic board or hard drive failure than a leak. Now when somebody puts up a website called leakingG5.com and solicits petitions for a class action lawsuit then MAYBE it's time to look further into it. By the way my June 2004 dual 2.5, liquid cooled G5 is now almost 30 months old, and has been running 24/7 since day one, is showing no signs of leaks. However my internal hard drive crapped out this past September and had to be replaced. Damn the luck. :-) But to answer your question directly, YES!, someday your Mac will die just like very other electronic device ever engineered and manufactured by human beings. You will die someday too.  Signature"Momma always said, "Stupid is as stupid does."" -Forest Gump "You can't fix stupid." -Jim White, local radio personality > > Was reading at Macfixit about people with G5s having liquid coolant > > leaking after about 20 months. Yikes! Something to look forward to come [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > just like very other electronic device ever engineered and manufactured > by human beings. You will die someday too. Thank you. I didn't ask if my Mac would die, I take that for granted. I asked if anyone might be seeing green gunk leaking all over his/her desk or floor. And what's the bullshit? I was wondering how widespread it might be, not claiming that it _is_ widespread. Calm down, for pete's sake. It was a simple yes or no question. Ruby >Thank you. I didn't ask if my Mac would die, I take that for granted. I >asked if anyone might be seeing green gunk leaking all over his/her desk >or floor. No, we noticed that the Mac became flaky, behaved strange etc. and it took us quite some time to find out that the cooling system was leaking. We noticed it about nine month after purchase. Apple was unable to fix the problem, that is, replacing processor, main board etc. didn't help... By the way: this was not the only G5 with this problem. So there is definitely a problem at least with some of these G5s. Regards, Christoph SignatureMax-Planck-Institut fuer Phone : +49-761-5108-464 Fax: -452 Immunbiologie Postfach 1169 Internet: gartmann@immunbio dot mpg dot de D-79011 Freiburg, Germany http://www.immunbio.mpg.de/home/menue.html > By the way my June 2004 dual 2.5, liquid cooled > G5 is now almost 30 months old, and has been running 24/7 since day one, > is showing no signs of leaks. However my internal hard drive crapped out > this past September and had to be replaced. Damn the luck. :-) So whats it like noisewise? Silent like a Cube? SignatureRL > > By the way my June 2004 dual 2.5, liquid cooled > > G5 is now almost 30 months old, and has been running 24/7 since day one, > > is showing no signs of leaks. However my internal hard drive crapped out > > this past September and had to be replaced. Damn the luck. :-) > So whats it like noisewise? Silent like a Cube? Har, har! Not as quiet as the Cube, of course. But all the FUD about racing fans and such was blown out of proportion too just like the leaking cooling systems. My fans don't race, I can't even hear the cooling system pumps with the tower sitting on top of my desk about 18 inches from my right ear. According to the utility Hardware Monitor my cpus are running about 56 C and the memory controller heatsink is 69 C. Right now the front and rear fans are at about 500rpm and just a soft purr. Are Macs indestructible and everlasting? Heck no, they break just like everything else. What gets my dander up is people trying to take an isolated case and blow it into a major news story. The MacFixit article that started it was posted by some guy who has been making the rounds to every Mac site with his tale of woe. Apple sold hundreds of thousands of liquid cooled machines. Even if a thousand machines developed a leak that's still an insignificant number (unless, of course, your system is one of them). But the "misery loves company" impulse in people makes them jump to irrational conclusions. "I" have an issue, ergo, "everybody" has the same issue is how it goes. The guy in question wants a free fix from Apple even though the machine is out of warranty and he chose not to purchase Applecare (I did). He's on a mission from God and he will not be dissuaded from his task. Signature"Momma always said, "Stupid is as stupid does."" -Forest Gump "You can't fix stupid." -Jim White, local radio personality > Bullshit! You can count on one hand the number of people making such > reports. Plenty of hand wringing and FUD going around, however. You're a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > just like very other electronic device ever engineered and manufactured > by human beings. You will die someday too. You can test your PM G5 for potential leaks here. ;-) http://macosg.com/leak.html Mr. Muckel > Was reading at Macfixit about people with G5s having liquid coolant > leaking after about 20 months. Yikes! Something to look forward to come > March or so. > > Anybody seeing this? I'm just wondering how widespread it is. Is it > inevitable or will some of us dodge the bullet? Almost all of us. I've worked with 12 liquid cooled G5s (ten in one location, one each in two more locations.) Ranging in age but most older than 20 months. Not one leak. |
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