What do you guys make of this "new g4"?

idude

I was making my daily rounds at the sites I visit, and I came across this article on PixelMonger. The article isn't much good (I think), but a little ways down, on the left, they have a "picture" of the "new G4".



I have everything in quotes because I never trust anything until Steve says so (and it is too small to really look if it's real or not), But this site isn't a rumor site, which lends itself to more credibility than Spymac or MOSR.



<a href="http://www.pixelmonger.com/hg_cmput.html"; target="_blank">http://www.pixelmonger.com/hg_cmput.html</a>;



Philip

powerdoc

[quote]Originally posted by iDude:

<strong>I was making my daily rounds at the sites I visit, and I came across this article on PixelMonger. The article isn't much good (I think), but a little ways down, on the left, they have a "picture" of the "new G4".



I have everything in quotes because I never trust anything until Steve says so (and it is too small to really look if it's real or not), But this site isn't a rumor site, which lends itself to more credibility than Spymac or MOSR.



<a href="http://www.pixelmonger.com/hg_cmput.html"; target="_blank">http://www.pixelmonger.com/hg_cmput.html</a>;



Philip</strong><hr></blockquote>

the link he give to the new G4 is the current one of Apple.

idude

[quote]Originally posted by powerdoc:

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the link he give to the new G4 is the current one of Apple.

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Yes, it is. But the picture next to the paragraph is DEFINITELY NOT the current G4.



Here is the picture, to save you time.

zaz

It is simply a Photoshop Chop.



It is also shown here on AI in a few other threads.



I think the guy who did it is even the one who posted it..

ludwigvan

[quote]Originally posted by iDude:

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Yes, it is. But the picture next to the paragraph is DEFINITELY NOT the current G4.



Here is the picture, to save you time.



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I've seen that picture before. It's a mock-up (inspired I believe by the Xserve) posted either here or over at the MacNN boards a few weeks ago.

kidred

Think about everything mentioned. He's talking about the G4 last revision from January if not from last year in MWNY. He mentions $2100 for a Cinema Display and complains about the picture. Well, my cinema display is less then 6 months old and I paid $2500 for mine. Maybe his is used or from eBay. Also, he talks about the X public beta!?!? That is what almost 2 years old now?



This is dated info with using the g4 pic that has been circulating recently. That is not a real photo it's a photoshop job taken form the Xserve as a possible rendering of the new case.



Don't get excited, this is nothing real or important.

idude

I figured it was a fake. It doesn't seem like Apple to let photos slip.



Someone should tell Yourdailymac.com to settle down. I just checked the site and they have a big headline about it.

cowofwar

Old. It's a mock-chop from the x-serve.



Although I wouldn't mind something like that design. But personally, it has too many horizontal lines.

nitride

All this proves is that the outside world is woefully out of touch with the Mac universe.



They probably think we still cant use "standard" PCI cards or only Mac-USB devices or something.



The Mac is just another computer running (now) a BDF UNIX-based OS. We even have forced file type extensions and the hilarity that cause just like everyone else!



We have more in common than ever before with our Wintel bretheren, except we can actually use our computers for more than games and downloading MP3s.



Okay a few things suck like no 5.1 sound and no ultra cheap hardware, but we can hold our own finally with OS X. The sluggish aspects of OS X should go away with real graphics acceleration and the tweaked Aqua UI (they removed alot of the drop shadowy-ness and translucency aka alpha masking).



I'd still use a Mac if it were still runnin OS 9.8, but that's just me.



My name is Nitride and I use a G4/450 with Mac OS X 10.1.5 for business, internet and software development.



<a href="http://www.apple.com/switch"; target="_blank">www.apple.com/switch</a>

amorph

[quote]Originally posted by Nitride:

<strong>The Mac is just another computer running (now) a BDF UNIX-based OS.</strong><hr></blockquote>



ITYM BSD. HTH. HAND.

g4dude

We had a whole thread dedicated to this. Oh by the way, here is my revision again for those of you that missed it before.

cowofwar

[quote]Originally posted by Nitride:

<strong>we can actually use our computers for more than games and downloading MP3s.</strong><hr></blockquote>



Sadly not anymore Audiogalaxy is gone. That was the last mac comptabable good mp3 network that I'm aware of.



But yeah, look back like a couple weeks. There was a whole thread on that picture.

luca

That mock-up looks pretty cool. Kinda like Hal from 2001. I think that if there is a new case, it'll be squarer than it is now, and it'll have two 5.25" front drive bays, but I really don't care to speculate on much else. I'm looking forward to the expo! Maybe I'll head down to the Mall of America Apple Store to see the keynote address.

sc_markt

I like this "new G4." To bad its probably a fake.



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