Reminds me of knockoff Macbooks from Samsung, Knockoff AirPods from Huawei, knockoff iPhones from everyone, knockoff iPads from everyone, knockoff Apple Watches....
iKnockoff users will buy these and claim "but but Apple didn't invent the [insert goalpost here]!!"
History repeating. First they mock you, then they copy you.
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
I don't think chassis itself is that complicated, anyone with some proper CNC knowledge could do it, especially for an open standard.
The PC looks like a hybrid of Power Mac G5 and Mac Pro so it will likely get Apple's attention since it incorporates the distinctive looks created by Apple.
This is a case for hypocritical cheap people who write things like "The Notch is ugly", and then they go on to buy themselves a knockoff Android phone with a notch 6 months later.
And this is a case for hypocritical cheap people who write things like "The new Mac Pro is ugly, looks like a cheesegrater" and then they'll go on to buy a knockoff case 6 months later, because they could never in a million years afford the real thing, yet they secretly lust after the original.
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
I don't think chassis itself is that complicated, anyone with some proper CNC knowledge could do it, especially for an open standard.
I'm betting there are quite a few patented design features (including the blowers inside) in the Mac Pro box that yield significant cooling performance that are not legally available to "anyone with proper CNC knowledge" to just copy.
Again, you can make a thing that sort of looks like another thing, but when the other thing was created as a result of scads of engineering in its design, "sort of looks like" isn't going to yield the same result. You could stack some giant cylinders so that they look a lot like a Saturn V rocket and then fill it with kerosene, but lighting it up probably won't get you to the moon.
P.S. If "Dune Case" was as careful in making their Mac Pro case copy as they were in making their Mac Pro webpage copy, it is definitely a crappy "sort of looks like" knockoff. Just go to their site and read the text to find some amateur grammatical errors.
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
I don't think chassis itself is that complicated, anyone with some proper CNC knowledge could do it, especially for an open standard.
I'm betting there are quite a few patented design features (including the blowers inside) in the Mac Pro box that yield significant cooling performance that are not legally available to "anyone with proper CNC knowledge" to just copy.
Again, you can make a thing that sort of looks like another thing, but when the other thing was created as a result of scads of engineering in its design, "sort of looks like" isn't going to yield the same result. You could stack some giant cylinders so that they look a lot like a Saturn V rocket and then fill it with kerosene, but lighting it up probably won't get you to the moon.
P.S. If "Dune Case" was as careful in making their Mac Pro case copy as they were in making their Mac Pro webpage copy, it is definitely a crappy "sort of looks like" knockoff. Just go to their site and read the text to find some amateur grammatical errors.
It’s a chassis to a expensive computer, not a super car or a rocket. It’s not breakthrough technology nor anything too different from what other case manufacturers do nor what Apple has done before. I don’t understand the reason to get worked up on that some folk don’t find it that impressive. It’s a nice looking case.
The outside of the Dune case is what the new MacPro case should have looked like.
Huh? It’s a clone of the real thing. Right down to the (add-on) unique Apple cheese grater “Y” grill — which Dune has the gall to say they’ve patented.
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
I don't think chassis itself is that complicated, anyone with some proper CNC knowledge could do it, especially for an open standard.
Of course they can do it, copying an object is easy. The fact that no one did before the MP existed but are now is the proof that it’s a successful, iconic design.
The outside of the Dune case is what the new MacPro case should have looked like.
Huh? It’s a clone of the real thing. Right down to the (add-on) unique Apple cheese grater “Y” grill — which Dune has the gall to say they’ve patented.
I laughed when I read it was patent pending. And the backside of the “Dice Y” design looks like an unfinished back. Does the Mac Pro look that way on the inside?
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
Are you really claiming that casing assembly is just “off-the-shelf components”?
No. I'm stating the the case provides the necessary features for use with most off-the-shelf components. You can choose to to populate it with cheap or high end components as you wish. In the end, it's just a standard ATX case. It does what it's designed to do. It's what you put in it that counts.
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
I don't think chassis itself is that complicated, anyone with some proper CNC knowledge could do it, especially for an open standard.
So why didn’t anybody with the appropriate skills do so. Why is it always Apple does something and all of a sudden anyone could have done it.
The feet of the Mac Pro have to be the ugliest I've ever seen, making this copycat equally as ugly. The least they could have done was innovated new feet. But maybe that's an impossible feat.
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
I don't think chassis itself is that complicated, anyone with some proper CNC knowledge could do it, especially for an open standard.
I'm betting there are quite a few patented design features (including the blowers inside) in the Mac Pro box that yield significant cooling performance that are not legally available to "anyone with proper CNC knowledge" to just copy.
Again, you can make a thing that sort of looks like another thing, but when the other thing was created as a result of scads of engineering in its design, "sort of looks like" isn't going to yield the same result. You could stack some giant cylinders so that they look a lot like a Saturn V rocket and then fill it with kerosene, but lighting it up probably won't get you to the moon.
P.S. If "Dune Case" was as careful in making their Mac Pro case copy as they were in making their Mac Pro webpage copy, it is definitely a crappy "sort of looks like" knockoff. Just go to their site and read the text to find some amateur grammatical errors.
It’s a chassis to a expensive computer, not a super car or a rocket. It’s not breakthrough technology nor anything too different from what other case manufacturers do nor what Apple has done before. I don’t understand the reason to get worked up on that some folk don’t find it that impressive. It’s a nice looking case.
Right, it's just another aluminum shell with more expensive cuttings, what really matters is how they put everything together.
So they copied the entire look of the case without copying its utility. Exhibit A:
What utility is need that isn't provided for off-the-shelf components?
The Apple design involved actual engineering. Though the aesthetics of the new Mac Pro are indeed compelling, the case and internals were designed together, putting a lot of computational power inside, and and then enclosing it in a case that's designed specifically for those internals and is rigid and creates the right airflow to keep the computational power from burning itself up.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
I don't think chassis itself is that complicated, anyone with some proper CNC knowledge could do it, especially for an open standard.
So why didn’t anybody with the appropriate skills do so. Why is it always Apple does something and all of a sudden anyone could have done it.
Everyone else builds their cases based on ATX standard and most likely won't make any motherboards, that's the biggest difference.
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Reminds me of knockoff Macbooks from Samsung, Knockoff AirPods from Huawei, knockoff iPhones from everyone, knockoff iPads from everyone, knockoff Apple Watches....
iKnockoff users will buy these and claim "but but Apple didn't invent the [insert goalpost here]!!"
History repeating. First they mock you, then they copy you.
Suggesting you can take a look-alike case, fill it with off-the shelf components and get as good or better results than the Mac Pro is nonsensical. You can buy a fiberglass Ferrari lookalike car body and put a VW Beetle under it, or Cadillac parts under it or whatever. Your end result is not going to be a Ferrari. You will have a nifty looking VW bug, or a poorly designed, tricked-out overpowered car that throws a rod or flips over when you try to drive it like it's a Ferrari.
And this is a case for hypocritical cheap people who write things like "The new Mac Pro is ugly, looks like a cheesegrater" and then they'll go on to buy a knockoff case 6 months later, because they could never in a million years afford the real thing, yet they secretly lust after the original.
Again, you can make a thing that sort of looks like another thing, but when the other thing was created as a result of scads of engineering in its design, "sort of looks like" isn't going to yield the same result. You could stack some giant cylinders so that they look a lot like a Saturn V rocket and then fill it with kerosene, but lighting it up probably won't get you to the moon.
P.S. If "Dune Case" was as careful in making their Mac Pro case copy as they were in making their Mac Pro webpage copy, it is definitely a crappy "sort of looks like" knockoff. Just go to their site and read the text to find some amateur grammatical errors.
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Everyone else builds their cases based on ATX standard and most likely won't make any motherboards, that's the biggest difference.