Liquid cooled Power Macs are leaking

Wow!! That is the coolest product failure ever! :-D

If that radiator coolant is anything like antifreeze a couple of tablespoons of it will kill pets because its poison. So make sure you clean it up and keep fluffy or fido away from it.

It looks a bit like flubber, but not as viscous. I hope it can sing and dance.

Money shot.

I also have a 1.5 year old eMac G4 that has become totally unstable, with Apple telling me that there is nothing wrong with it, aside from crashing (so hard sometimes the power button won't even turn it off) 15 times a day.

Oh well, we just bought a used iMac G5 and are hoping Apple will come around and fix our eMac, so we can sell it. Otherwise, it's about $400 for a new mainboard.

This is not good for Apple. Their year-old eMacs are popping capacitors and spilling brown goo.

Green goo, brown goo...goo everywhere.

Hey TUAW, how about some investigative reporting on the eMac problem? I have one, as do a couple of my friends.

I had three dual 2.5 GHz G5's suffer from this issue which were all purchased at the same time. The first I brought to a local authorized service provider and they determined that they needed to replace the case, logic board, power supply. After ten weeks of waiting for the local service provider trying to get all the replacement parts from Apple I finally talked Apple into replacing the system with a new quad G5. The second two systems died about a month later within one week of each other. These two systems I brought directly to the Genius Bar at an Apple store and were repaired within three days. If your dual G5 system suffers from this unfortunate demise and you need the repairs done quickly take them directly to an Apple store.

Does this mean that if I poke the radiator with a pin/stick/knife/etc... I get a new machine??

Cool... Instant upgrade!

DP 2.5 owner without coolant issue, crossing fingers + knocks on wood. Did opt for the 3yr APP just in case there would be some catastrophe with the cooling system. As that wouldn't be something I could fix off the shelf.

My Quad failed me a few weeks ago. I bought it in February (first Mac ever) and love it.

My failure occured with the pump that allows the green stuff to flow through. The computer was perfectly quiet until one day there was like a heart beat sound coming from the CPU and the fans went hyperspeed. I took it to Apple store and was told the pump failed and the CPU needs to be replaced. It took over a week for the part to arrive.

I have my computer back, but now the fans are more noisy than they were at first (backside fan hits a max of 3000 rpm, even when I'm not running anything)

I don't know what to do, a drive to Apple store again is quite a drive (we don't have many stores in Canada) I guess I should just live with it and accept the fact that the quad at least works.