if apple were going to pick a new geometric for their next wave of machines, i'd expect it would be a pyramid. the power of the pyramid has been keeping fruit from spoiling, razors from dulling and mummys from decomposing for thousands of years...now this ancient mystical energy can protect and enhance your powermac. under the pyramid, 867's run at 1ghz...bus speeds increase, every hard drive holds just a litle more and OSX scrolls just a bit more like OS9. it's, well, magic.
<strong>if apple were going to pick a new geometric for their next wave of machines, i'd expect it would be a pyramid. the power of the pyramid has been keeping fruit from spoiling, razors from dulling and mummys from decomposing for thousands of years...now this ancient mystical energy can protect and enhance your powermac. under the pyramid, 867's run at 1ghz...bus speeds increase, every hard drive holds just a litle more and OSX scrolls just a bit more like OS9. it's, well, magic.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What about a truncated pyramid shape? They already did the cube thing and now the spheroid, so I can't see how they'd want to revisit that for a new product line. The next basic shape that came to mind was the triangle (pyramid if you're talking three dimensions)...the only problem would be that if you want all the firewire ports and such to extend from the "back side", then by definition the front of the machine would be the edge shared by the other two sides. Could make for a funky / dangerous CD tray!
They could make it a dark grey and call it the G5 Star Destroyer.
Or it could be a whole pyramid, only with rounded corners and edges, to make it more stylish / less of a health hazard....
<strong>How about water-tower shaped?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Or even a cyclinder. They could offer it in two styles: short & wide, and tall & narrow. I'm no industrial designer, but if you think about it, a cylinder allows you to have the normal rectangular internal structures for afixing hard drives and such, so you wouldn't have as many of the design issues as they must've had with the iFlower (hey, Jobs said it had to look like a sunflower, not me...).
So if Apple offered a dual processor, "two brains are better than one" version of the G5 sphere, then would it have to be two-headed? Like two spheres connected by an iMac chrome joint? Then they would balance on a vertical pole, with the chrome joint resting on the pole. Orbiting each other. And the greater the processor load, the faster they orbit!
Howzabout a... big cube? Shorter, but fatter than the current PM. Say, 10.5" L x W x D ? I'm looking at a square cookie tin that's 10 x 10 x 5. Two of 'em stacked one over the other wouldn't take too much space at all. The Mobo could sit horizontally in the middle with the PCI/AGP slots open to the bottom half with the PS down there too, and in the top half a centrally mounted optical drive with room for HDD's to either side of it.
A very sturdy cage could just slide out like the old cube. Airport, RAM and PCI slots are all designed to be easily plugged from the exterior, no reaching in neccessary.
<strong>What about a truncated pyramid shape? They already did the cube thing and now the spheroid, so I can't see how they'd want to revisit that for a new product line. The next basic shape that came to mind was the triangle (pyramid if you're talking three dimensions)...the only problem would be that if you want all the firewire ports and such to extend from the "back side", then by definition the front of the machine would be the edge shared by the other two sides. Could make for a funky / dangerous CD tray!
They could make it a dark grey and call it the G5 Star Destroyer.
Or it could be a whole pyramid, only with rounded corners and edges, to make it more stylish / less of a health hazard....
<strong>The next basic shape that came to mind was the triangle (pyramid if you're talking three dimensions)...the only problem would be that if you want all the firewire ports and such to extend from the "back side", then by definition the front of the machine would be the edge shared by the other two sides.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You're thinking trapezoid (4-sided solid: 3 triangles around a triangular base); a pyramid is 4 triangles around a square base.
Re: yer port-surface problem, just trim one edge by an inch or so, et voila! A flat "wall" for sticking ports thru (making that side the back, non?
You're thinking trapezoid (4-sided solid: 3 triangles around a triangular base); a pyramid is 4 triangles around a square base.
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Not to nit-pick (well, OK, I am nit picking), but a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with two parallel sides (2D planar figure). A four-sided solid made of equilateral triangles is a tetrahedron. Technically, any solid made of triangles meeting at a vertex around a polyhedral base is a pyramid, so you can have a 3-sided, 4-sided, or 20-sided, or whatever pyramid. In any event, I think it would be tough to find room for a 12" full-sized PCI card in such a shape.
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<strong>if apple were going to pick a new geometric for their next wave of machines, i'd expect it would be a pyramid. the power of the pyramid has been keeping fruit from spoiling, razors from dulling and mummys from decomposing for thousands of years...now this ancient mystical energy can protect and enhance your powermac. under the pyramid, 867's run at 1ghz...bus speeds increase, every hard drive holds just a litle more and OSX scrolls just a bit more like OS9. it's, well, magic.</strong><hr></blockquote>
How about water-tower shaped?
They could make it a dark grey and call it the G5 Star Destroyer.
Or it could be a whole pyramid, only with rounded corners and edges, to make it more stylish / less of a health hazard....
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<strong>How about water-tower shaped?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Or even a cyclinder. They could offer it in two styles: short & wide, and tall & narrow. I'm no industrial designer, but if you think about it, a cylinder allows you to have the normal rectangular internal structures for afixing hard drives and such, so you wouldn't have as many of the design issues as they must've had with the iFlower (hey, Jobs said it had to look like a sunflower, not me...).
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A very sturdy cage could just slide out like the old cube. Airport, RAM and PCI slots are all designed to be easily plugged from the exterior, no reaching in neccessary.
<strong>What about a truncated pyramid shape? They already did the cube thing and now the spheroid, so I can't see how they'd want to revisit that for a new product line. The next basic shape that came to mind was the triangle (pyramid if you're talking three dimensions)...the only problem would be that if you want all the firewire ports and such to extend from the "back side", then by definition the front of the machine would be the edge shared by the other two sides. Could make for a funky / dangerous CD tray!
They could make it a dark grey and call it the G5 Star Destroyer.
Or it could be a whole pyramid, only with rounded corners and edges, to make it more stylish / less of a health hazard....
[ 01-11-2002: Message edited by: Moogs ? ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
No spheroid yet only hemispherical. But I like the "Macintosh for the World" Design (spheroid)
<strong>The next basic shape that came to mind was the triangle (pyramid if you're talking three dimensions)...the only problem would be that if you want all the firewire ports and such to extend from the "back side", then by definition the front of the machine would be the edge shared by the other two sides.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You're thinking trapezoid (4-sided solid: 3 triangles around a triangular base); a pyramid is 4 triangles around a square base.
Re: yer port-surface problem, just trim one edge by an inch or so, et voila! A flat "wall" for sticking ports thru (making that side the back, non?
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You're thinking trapezoid (4-sided solid: 3 triangles around a triangular base); a pyramid is 4 triangles around a square base.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not to nit-pick (well, OK, I am nit picking), but a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with two parallel sides (2D planar figure). A four-sided solid made of equilateral triangles is a tetrahedron. Technically, any solid made of triangles meeting at a vertex around a polyhedral base is a pyramid, so you can have a 3-sided, 4-sided, or 20-sided, or whatever pyramid. In any event, I think it would be tough to find room for a 12" full-sized PCI card in such a shape.