Next G5 WILL be a sphere!!

outsider · January 9, 2002 3:36PM

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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labang · January 9, 2002 3:37PM

and i assume you saw this. BULLSHIT!

cdhostage · January 9, 2002 3:40PM

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,

outsider · January 9, 2002 3:46PM

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!

airsluf · January 9, 2002 4:14PM

kidred · January 9, 2002 4:30PM

Kinda like the globe I leaned geography on in elementary school?

uh no.

logan cale · January 9, 2002 5:12PM

ifok5 · January 9, 2002 5:29PM

this is the G5 Sphere

logan cale · January 9, 2002 5:41PM

That is an old, old, old rendering.

howyoudoin · January 9, 2002 5:43PM

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

spiffyguyc · January 9, 2002 5:44PM

And I bet it's a joy to install PCI cards into.

S

gilsch · January 9, 2002 6:54PM

It actually IS a joy. It opens up in half.

ferro · January 9, 2002 7:06PM

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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jules · January 9, 2002 7:09PM

Sorry, all that springs to mind here is humpty dumpty.

sphere sphmere

ferro · January 9, 2002 7:28PM

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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spiffyguyc · January 9, 2002 7:32PM

[quote]Originally posted by FERRO:



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

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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.....)

logan cale · January 9, 2002 7:39PM

You stuck that speaker in the middle of the SuperDrive, FERRO.

ferro · January 9, 2002 7:49PM

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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overtoasty · January 9, 2002 7:54PM

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!

ghost_user_name · January 9, 2002 7:58PM

does the be-speakered sphere look like the death star to anyone else?

logan cale · January 9, 2002 8:07PM

I knew I had seen that somewhere before!

Next G5 WILL be a sphere!!

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