Would it have killed Apple to make the darn G5 two inches taller???

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i, fredi, fred
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Rough and dirty cut and paste: the G5 mark 2!



Just like that: 2 Optical Drives, 4 Hard drives, same great look ( ) and taste!

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    gizzmonicgizzmonic Posts: 511member
    Let the whining about minutae begin!
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  • Reply 2 of 10
    chu_bakkachu_bakka Posts: 1,793member
    I suspect that Apple found that people rarely used the second optical bay on the G4 towers...



    Also... the G5 is engineered to get the best cooling and stuffing 4 drives into it probably would screw that up big time. Plus... drives are so huge now... if you really need that much storage, get a swappable array.
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  • Reply 3 of 10
    audiopollutionaudiopollution Posts: 3,226member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Gizzmonic

    Let the whining about minutae begin!



    <edit> it's just not worth it </edit>
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  • Reply 4 of 10
    dstranathandstranathan Posts: 1,717member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by audiopollution

    <edit> it's just not worth it </edit>



    Looking at these pics I would say its already a really big tower!



    http://homepage.mac.com/dstranathan/



    (look at g4ochg5.jpg)
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  • Reply 5 of 10
    bostonmhbostonmh Posts: 97member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by chu_bakka

    I suspect that Apple found that people rarely used the second optical bay on the G4 towers...



    Also... the G5 is engineered to get the best cooling and stuffing 4 drives into it probably would screw that up big time. Plus... drives are so huge now... if you really need that much storage, get a swappable array.



    I agree with you, I can see some people needing more PCI slots, But with Firewire & USB 2.0 there are lot of external options if you need them. I know you can please everyone, but I never heard so much bitching about great new computer...Nothing perfect but this is a solid Mac.
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  • Reply 6 of 10
    i, fredi, fred Posts: 125member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Gizzmonic

    Let the whining about minutae begin!



    I don't think this is 'whining about minutiae'.....we had this same damn discussion when the original el Cap designs came out, with one stinking fullsize bay, and it took Apple about 4 case revisions to finally get enough fullsize bays in there (without significantly altering the case).



    Why will we have to have the same damn go-round with Apple again???



    A 'pro' or 'workstation' tower with the expandability of a micro- or mini-tower is just so putting the cart before the horse that it's almost inconcievable that no one sent the whole damn thing back to Ives and told him to try again.....
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  • Reply 7 of 10
    musicaltonemusicaltone Posts: 189member
    The G5 is already quite a lot taller than the G4 tower.



    http://galleri.99mac.com/showphoto.p...cat=521&page=2



    How tall do you wanna go?
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  • Reply 8 of 10
    mrmistermrmister Posts: 1,095member
    I agree that dual bays and extra drives is a fundamentally good thing, but that new G5 tower is tall enough already--they'd need a redesign before they simply made it taller.
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  • Reply 9 of 10
    i, fredi, fred Posts: 125member
    Then cut off the bottom legs. They are superfluous, anyway.
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  • Reply 10 of 10
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    Current Hardware:



    Why do you need more Optical drives?





    General Discussion:



    What happened to the "tower"?





    This thread:









    This has been discussed to death. If you really want to add something, do so in the current threads.
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