FERRO, are those handles I see in the top. It's kinda plain, and I like the existing one better, but if they have to change it at least your design has handles. I can't live without those things. Good job.
Although, has anyone seen the one that big terminator looking one made of metal with the clear plastic X that wraps around it yet. That one has to be my favorite, but I can't figure out how to get easy access to the insides yet.
I think I'm going to try and mold that design for my self.
thanks... I darkened (slightly) the handle bars...
I didnt put any handles on the bottom becuase they would serve no purpose...
A Free G5 for the person who recognizes the origanal photo this was edited from...??? ( just kidding... )
I think it has very clean lines and a futuristic look to it (chrome and all), that keeps with the old (handle bars and size) and melds with the new (silver, titanium and lucite) look of the present models...
<strong>are there any share programs for messing around with pictures?
i love the iceboz design, i would by it.
but, how big is it? about the size of the cube or close the current ones size?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I used appleworks for most of the iCeBoxG5...(I personally liked ClarisWorks better)...
As for size, I would figure that it would have to be smaller than the PM we have now... (which is mostly eye candy)
The present PM is Huge, the iCeBox would be like a small silver suitcase... probably with rubber feet...
Given the fact that this is a fictional PM design let me add that I would have the design feature an "inner and outer Titanium (or aluminum) shell" and would draw cool air thru special channels between the metal sheets to cool the PM... I am no scientist but it sounds like a good idea to me...
We could call it an "Exo-Thermal Heat Shield" ... just an idea...
I like the squarish idea. It gives Apple room to mount the mobo vertically down the middle with PCI slots running down both sides and put 5.25" bays side by side
I think it'll be a matte white monolith with retractable hidden seemless handles (kind of like the cubes slide out nuclear core guts). i also think it'll have chrome accents and rounded yet clean corners.. I hope they can make the LCD's more like the iMac's...poseable I mean. that would rock. I had to use the LCD on the 933 tower at work today, and I kept on wanting to squeeze it down like I do with my iMac2.
<strong>I like the squarish idea. It gives Apple room to mount the mobo vertically down the middle with PCI slots running down both sides and put 5.25" bays side by side </strong><hr></blockquote>
i don't really see why apple would ever think much of having the powermacs mountable... it hasn't even been an option since the G3. the case design of all their products is very important to most users and to keep it's originality, they sacrifice making it mountable.
if you mounted the g5 processor really close the metal caseing you would a none stick aluminum frying pan, now i really want one. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
"Now, with the iMac G4 Sphere, not only does the screen appear to float, but the whole unit floats before your eyes using state of the art gravitational technology!"
[/QB][/QUOTE] [quote]Originally posted by applenut:
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1.) no reason it would get knocked over with so much weight at the base. They could also design it so that it sort of slants out at the bottom and then gets narrowed at the top.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Being that tall...you would literally have to round the base and put all of the weight at the bottom so it springs back up...and if you want to fit a few drives, mobo, and graphics card in there...it would be a huge sphere on the bottom, and the tower would be pointless and weightless almost. Otherwise the thing would be knocked over very easily.
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2.) huge column of heat= good thing. hot air rises. probably would be extremely efficient at cooling with a fan or two at the bottom</strong><hr></blockquote>
not really my point...my point is dont set anything on top . all that heat coming out one very small space=bad news. also, the heat is less distributed throughout the case. due to weight reasons the graphics cards/expansion slots would be up on top...which means more fans and more holes in the case. also, the top of the case would get MUCH hotter than the bottom, especially in a collumn form factor, and i wouldnt be suprised to see this thing crack like an egg <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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3.) tower motherboards are already mounted vertically
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these kinds of electronics arent affected by this so i dont see why you bring it up...everyone knows this
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4.) being 9 inches in width and depth would allow drives to remain horizontal</strong><hr></blockquote>
then whats the point of a giant collumn...if its going to be that huge. this thing just wont happen. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
then whats the point of a giant collumn...if its going to be that huge. this thing just wont happen. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong>
hey man.... lay off. It's a DAMN good idea <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> :cool:
Cool ideas. I have a few of my own... Apple maybe around Macworld could produce about 25,000 Powermacs, and three-four types of them. Depending on what was ordered the most, they would use that one.. Of course I am guessing they would need to produce more than that, but that way people could get what they really want. One of my ideas was, if you made the side so it does NOT open up anymore, but using hydraulics, literally everything in the computer comes out the top... Something like that would be REALLY easy to work on, and would just be sweet. I know this is probably not practical... I personally think they could make a few different configurations available. Like a very low profile tower, and one that is pretty large... OR maybe they could sell a model with a breakout box for PCI cards. (The graphics card would be internal.) AND the harddrives would also be in a seperate package. By putting the circuitry in that box, they could sell different size ones, and you would not be limited by cable length. Of course all of this would be stackable, and would allow for a wide range of customization. And it is not practical to make, IMO, so too bad.
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Although, has anyone seen the one that big terminator looking one made of metal with the clear plastic X that wraps around it yet. That one has to be my favorite, but I can't figure out how to get easy access to the insides yet.
I think I'm going to try and mold that design for my self.
I didnt put any handles on the bottom becuase they would serve no purpose...
A Free G5 for the person who recognizes the origanal photo this was edited from...??? ( just kidding...
I think it has very clean lines and a futuristic look to it (chrome and all), that keeps with the old (handle bars and size) and melds with the new (silver, titanium and lucite) look of the present models...
any comments...???
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Now where's my G5!? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Some people have been complaining about this.
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50454,00.html"; target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50454,00.html</a>;
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
i love the iceboz design, i would by it.
but, how big is it? about the size of the cube or close the current ones size?
<strong>are there any share programs for messing around with pictures?
i love the iceboz design, i would by it.
but, how big is it? about the size of the cube or close the current ones size?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I used appleworks for most of the iCeBoxG5...(I personally liked ClarisWorks better)...
As for size, I would figure that it would have to be smaller than the PM we have now... (which is mostly eye candy)
The present PM is Huge, the iCeBox would be like a small silver suitcase... probably with rubber feet...
Given the fact that this is a fictional PM design let me add that I would have the design feature an "inner and outer Titanium (or aluminum) shell" and would draw cool air thru special channels between the metal sheets to cool the PM... I am no scientist but it sounds like a good idea to me...
We could call it an "Exo-Thermal Heat Shield"
I think it looks simple and futuristic...
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© FERRO 2001-2002
let God sort 'em out
<strong>I like the squarish idea. It gives Apple room to mount the mobo vertically down the middle with PCI slots running down both sides and put 5.25" bays side by side
i don't really see why apple would ever think much of having the powermacs mountable... it hasn't even been an option since the G3. the case design of all their products is very important to most users and to keep it's originality, they sacrifice making it mountable.
- Phil Schiller
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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1.) no reason it would get knocked over with so much weight at the base. They could also design it so that it sort of slants out at the bottom and then gets narrowed at the top.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Being that tall...you would literally have to round the base and put all of the weight at the bottom so it springs back up...and if you want to fit a few drives, mobo, and graphics card in there...it would be a huge sphere on the bottom, and the tower would be pointless and weightless almost. Otherwise the thing would be knocked over very easily.
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2.) huge column of heat= good thing. hot air rises. probably would be extremely efficient at cooling with a fan or two at the bottom</strong><hr></blockquote>
not really my point...my point is dont set anything on top
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3.) tower motherboards are already mounted vertically
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these kinds of electronics arent affected by this so i dont see why you bring it up...everyone knows this
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4.) being 9 inches in width and depth would allow drives to remain horizontal</strong><hr></blockquote>
then whats the point of a giant collumn...if its going to be that huge. this thing just wont happen. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Originally posted by Spart:
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then whats the point of a giant collumn...if its going to be that huge. this thing just wont happen. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong>
hey man.... lay off. It's a DAMN good idea
Ooooh, a lunchbox, a sphere and a modular computer. Sounds like Intel's innovative computers crap.
The slightly modelled tower is the best design, there's a reason towers have been used for the past 10-15 years.
<strong>I just hope Apple wakes up and adds optical drive expansion and that it looks nothing like those ugly pictures you guys have submitted.
Ooooh, a lunchbox, a sphere and a modular computer. Sounds like Intel's innovative computers crap.
The slightly modelled tower is the best design, there's a reason towers have been used for the past 10-15 years.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Would you suggest the
udderMac?