Post your 970 Tower mock ups
Industrial design.
Black cooling vents go all around the front, top, and back crowding a thin aluminum strip going down the center. Both elements are sandwiched between aluminum side panels.
Cut outs for CD/DVD trays instead of flapping doors.
Both sides flip down to reveal innards. Instead of an obvious latch you disengage, you simply slide the aluminum side panel foward about a centimeter and then fold down. The right side folds down to expose the motherboard, CPU, RAM and PCI expansion while the left side folds down to expose the vertical hard drive bays, 4 in total. The 2 CD bays have access to the mounting screws from both panels.
Here are the pics.
Black cooling vents go all around the front, top, and back crowding a thin aluminum strip going down the center. Both elements are sandwiched between aluminum side panels.
Cut outs for CD/DVD trays instead of flapping doors.
Both sides flip down to reveal innards. Instead of an obvious latch you disengage, you simply slide the aluminum side panel foward about a centimeter and then fold down. The right side folds down to expose the motherboard, CPU, RAM and PCI expansion while the left side folds down to expose the vertical hard drive bays, 4 in total. The 2 CD bays have access to the mounting screws from both panels.
Here are the pics.
Comments
Originally posted by othello
that reminds me a bit of a PS2...
I was thinking more along the lines of older IBM workstations like the M-Pro.
And you thought that big heat sink and huge noisy fans were for the G4s ha!
A@ron
Wheres the ventilation?
Originally posted by Jared
Pretty cool but I have a feeling that case would get so hot you can bake a cake!
Wheres the ventilation?
The black fins hide the vents for heat exhaust.
Originally posted by kim kap sol
I think that industrial design mockup looks like ass...no offense. If it makes you feel any better...it looks like *my* ass which is decent looking but still looks like, well, ass.
Well since you're working on plastics now lets have a sneak peak.
Originally posted by Placebo
this thing looks like a room heater.
what's wrong with that? the box is probably going to work very well as a room heater too
Exactly. It should be functional AND multi-tasking!
Originally posted by hmurchison
Hmmm not bad Outsider. Looks like Rotel Mac
Thanks. Somehow it looks better in Illustrator but what am i gunna do?
Anyone else have a mocke up they'de like to share? Pscates? Michaelm?
Originally posted by r-0X#Zapchud
what's wrong with that? the box is probably going to work very well as a room heater too
My room consists of two PowerMac G4s, a 21" and 16" Apple Studio Display, a PowerBook G4, a few FireWire drives, an external CD-RW drive and a Phaser 850 and it always stays pretty warm in here!
With the addition of something like that pictured above...it would be to hot! 8)
Originally posted by Jared
My room consists of two PowerMac G4s, a 21" and 16" Apple Studio Display, a PowerBook G4, a few FireWire drives, an external CD-RW drive and a Phaser 850 and it always stays pretty warm in here!
With the addition of something like that pictured above...it would be to hot! 8)
When I keep the mac turned on overnight, I always know I'm not going to freeze to death when I get up
oops, this is very, very offtopic.
Originally posted by Outsider
Well since you're working on plastics now lets have a sneak peak.
You just want a look at his ass
Actually, you mockup looks pretty nice. I think it's too far a departure from Apple's newest ID direction, but it looks like a nice case anyway. But where are the handles..I gotta have my handles.