Does Anyone Remember...
... That one rumor, about the G5 case, way back when it was still called the G5? not that i like that naming scheme, but thats not the point. It went something along the lines of...
"so-and-so met whats-his-face-design-team-member at some party, and questioned him about the upcoming G5, specifically the casing. While whats-his-face-design-team-member was very shut-lipped, but he did let on that it was designed by steve himself, and would feature some kind of 5-sided design, to reflect the G5."
i really liked that idea, and it makes perfect sense. Leave it to Apple to come up with some tottally new kind of casing.
That was always really my favourite rumor.
What about yours? of course, it doesnt have to be a true rumor, just something you heard and absolutely wished was true.
I think it would be interesting to see what makes people excited the most...
So what is it?
-ST
"so-and-so met whats-his-face-design-team-member at some party, and questioned him about the upcoming G5, specifically the casing. While whats-his-face-design-team-member was very shut-lipped, but he did let on that it was designed by steve himself, and would feature some kind of 5-sided design, to reflect the G5."
i really liked that idea, and it makes perfect sense. Leave it to Apple to come up with some tottally new kind of casing.
That was always really my favourite rumor.
What about yours? of course, it doesnt have to be a true rumor, just something you heard and absolutely wished was true.
I think it would be interesting to see what makes people excited the most...
So what is it?
-ST
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I want my fuel Cell battery that will last weeks...
You've seen the sunflower iMac, now try the rhododendron PowerMac. Wonder how that would look.
Now that I think about it, though, wouldn't five sides end up looking, basically, like a pyramid? I mean, take any "box-shaped CPU" (like a PowerMac). It's got 6 sides. Take away one of the sides, and what do you do from there? The thing has to sit flat on one of the remaining sides, so that leaves you with four sides which aren't touching the floor or desk. Seems to me you'd have to bring those to a point like a pyramid or a tent.
Actually, wait, I don't think the rumor was that it would have five sides. I think it was something about the sides being pentagons. Like a soccer ball.
IIRC, the way the story went was that the "source" talked to someone who met someone at an office Christmas party...and he mentioned that one G5 case concept was a PowerMac Icosahedron; an 11-sided PowerMac. Mind you, my memory's a bit rusted so I'm probably wrong.
I remember that this was posted shortly before the Cube was released.
My favourite rumour: B&W PM G3's coming in Strawberry. Oh, and the whole G5 exploding thing...and Apple-made 3-D Stereoscopic Displays!!!!
There would be serious cooling issues with any horizontally mounted drives. And anything that was horiz would require strange external parts. You could mount them perpendicular to the surface, slot-loading. Then you may not have enough space for anything.
I think the best possible access options would be the backtop panels out and pulling the center up and maybe out like the cube.
I'll have to scale it up sometime to see exactly how a 5.25 and 3.5 drive fit proportionally.
The best thing is that likely prosition of the MB would allow for a simple placement of pullout front mount USB FW ports.
I first atempted an 'off front' view but it was taking too long.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
STOOPIDEST LOOKING COMPUTER EVAR!!!!
I dunno ... kinda has a Christmassy vibe to it, and easy to hang from the same tree you hung the designer
Originally posted by Paul
JYD meets the decahedron?
I want my fuel Cell battery that will last weeks...
I heard that!
Originally posted by Socrates
Shouldn't that be pentahedron?
Regular pentagons can be fitted into a regular solid shape - it takes twelve of them, so the solid is called a "dodecahedron". "Dodeca" = 12, "hedron" = faces, IIRC. The "-gon" suffix means edge or side.
The ancient Greeks first figured these things out. Plato is given credit for describing them first, so they are called the "Platonic Solids", five in all:
Tetrahedron: 4 faces, all equilateral triangles (perhaps we should call them trigons to be consistent?)
Hexahedron (aka "Cube"): 6 faces, all squares
Octahedron: 8 faces, all equilateral triangles
Dodecahedron: 12 faces, all regular pentagons
Icosahedron: 20 faces, all equilateral triangles.
I'll be posting a short quiz tomorrow to make sure you've all done your homework.
Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg
I heard that!
do you not post much anymore, i used to see ur posts all the time, and i just posted somewhere askign waht happend to you
are you just a skimmer now?
Originally posted by TJM
Regular pentagons can be fitted into a regular solid shape - it takes twelve of them, so the solid is called a "dodecahedron". "Dodeca" = 12, "hedron" = faces, IIRC. The "-gon" suffix means edge or side.
The ancient Greeks first figured these things out. Plato is given credit for describing them first, so they are called the "Platonic Solids", five in all:
Tetrahedron: 4 faces, all equilateral triangles (perhaps we should call them trigons to be consistent?)
Hexahedron (aka "Cube"): 6 faces, all squares
Octahedron: 8 faces, all equilateral triangles
Dodecahedron: 12 faces, all regular pentagons
Icosahedron: 20 faces, all equilateral triangles.
I'll be posting a short quiz tomorrow to make sure you've all done your homework.
damn... and Coxeter just died... he'd have loved to see those
maybe it's an Apple Buckyball or Geodesic dome.
I've always wondered if there was *some* truth behind it.