Next G5 WILL be a sphere!!

outsideroutsider
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
It looks like someone took 2 iMac bases and glued them bottom to bottom. It has 2 5.5" bays, and has a chrome stand underneith to keep its balance! Has all the usual ports in the back: 3 USB, 3 firewire, ACD, sound, ethernet and modem. It looks rocking. Even has 1 AGP and 3 PCI... very interesting design.



(if you haven't guessed it's just an idea )



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  • Reply 1 of 53
    labanglabang Posts: 15member
    and i assume you saw this. BULLSHIT!
  • Reply 2 of 53
    cdhostagecdhostage Posts: 1,038member
    Useless. Either give me a better metnal image or an actual picture. You violate NDA either way. Which you obviously haven't signed, nor seen any conceptual Apple products,
  • Reply 3 of 53
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    I saw it in my mind! I'm no photoshop wiz but I bet it's an easy mock up to do. pscates hop to it!
  • Reply 4 of 53
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
  • Reply 5 of 53
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    Kinda like the globe I leaned geography on in elementary school?



    uh no.
  • Reply 6 of 53
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
  • Reply 7 of 53
    ifok5ifok5 Posts: 22member
    this is the G5 Sphere

  • Reply 8 of 53
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    That is an old, old, old rendering.
  • Reply 9 of 53
    howyoudoinhowyoudoin Posts: 118member
    i've seen another rendering of it i can't remember where but it showed everything and how the pci slots would work and superdrive and everything dang i wish i could remember where though
  • Reply 10 of 53
    spiffyguycspiffyguyc Posts: 285member
    And I bet it's a joy to install PCI cards into.



    S
  • Reply 11 of 53
    gilschgilsch Posts: 1,995member
    It actually IS a joy. It opens up in half.
  • Reply 12 of 53
    ferroferro Posts: 453member
    MacAgent, I was thinking the same thing...



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    I think legs or a stand looks kinda stupid...



    I may slightly flatten the bottom so it doesnt wobble...



    Only I would ad an "EYE" in the center...



    like this PMG5 mock-up...







    kinda reminds you of HAL...



    maybe when you put it to sleep it would glow inside the housing of the eye...



    E PLURIBUS UNIX

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  • Reply 13 of 53
    julesjules Posts: 149member
    Sorry, all that springs to mind here is humpty dumpty.



    sphere sphmere
  • Reply 14 of 53
    ferroferro Posts: 453member
    Sort of like this...







    I think it looks cool...



    Imagine it with cables coming out the back...



    it would look so organic...



    reminds me of the "Bishop" Andriod technoligy from the "Aliens" movie... he had white blood and guts... that was cool looking...



    futuristic...



    "It would look like a brain..."



    E PLURIBUS UNIX

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  • Reply 15 of 53
    spiffyguycspiffyguyc Posts: 285member
    [quote]Originally posted by FERRO:

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    reminds me of the "Bishop" Andriod technoligy from the "Aliens" movie... he had white blood and guts... that was cool looking...



    [ 01-09-2002: Message edited by: FERRO ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    That's what I need - a computer that oozes pus when I add memory.



    -S <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> (starting to be worried by the people on AI.....)
  • Reply 16 of 53
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    You stuck that speaker in the middle of the SuperDrive, FERRO.
  • Reply 17 of 53
    ferroferro Posts: 453member
    MacAgent, oops... I didnt see it there...



    SpiffyGuyC, The sphere could be liquid cooled...



    I think a inner skeletal structure should a geodome sphere... and the boards should be grey istead of green...



    On the back there would be a whole about the same size as the front speaker... but this whole would be a silver colored quiet super fan than "super cools" the heat sink connected to the "liquid cooled" water conduit system on the inner side of the exo-skeleton...



    E PLURIBUS UNIX

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  • Reply 18 of 53
    overtoastyovertoasty Posts: 439member
    GUYS!



    A G5 is serious server & workstation performance material,that means hard drives, that means PCI cards yadda yadda yadda ...



    How the hell are you gonna fit big hard drives and lot's of PCI cards into a sphere any smaller than a large beach ball?



    Quit the wanking!
  • Reply 19 of 53
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    does the be-speakered sphere look like the death star to anyone else?
  • Reply 20 of 53
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    I knew I had seen that somewhere before!
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