A glimpse of the new PowerMac case
You can tell by the styling of the new Cinema Display. Notice the accent color of the Apple logo. It's chrome unlike that of the 22", 17" and 15". But like the one on the iMac. But it retains the silver base color and stripes of the present displays.
My prediction is a silver and chrome case with squarish features. I've seen the future! And the future is 1950's chrome!
My prediction is a silver and chrome case with squarish features. I've seen the future! And the future is 1950's chrome!
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<strong>Yup just like bellbottoms.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yep, gettin' out my cord bellbottoms, paisley shirt, neru jacket and some Pachuly oil now.
Good thing I still have my 8-tracks( John Mayall and the Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, then Peter Green, then Mick Taylor)
Kinda like when Apple made the jump from beige G3 tower to B&W G3 tower. (From which Apple still uses the same case design)
<strong>OK can anyone do a mock-up?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Sorry, mate. I left my crayons at home. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<strong>You can tell by the styling of the new Cinema Display. Notice the accent color of the Apple logo. It's chrome unlike that of the 22", 17" and 15". But like the one on the iMac. But it retains the silver base color and stripes of the present displays.
My prediction is a silver and chrome case with squarish features. I've seen the future! And the future is 1950's chrome!</strong><hr></blockquote>
I agree. I think the look will be chrome and white. All signs point there. And I also think it will be much more square-like.
I also think all signs point to a smaller tower enclosure and I think they will be stackable.
Here's why?
1) The benefit of OSX servers running on a stackable enclosure. Now, with this enclosure, Apple will have a stackable case as well as a stable and reliable OS. Just what a server should be.
2) Apple is charging headfirst into the scientific community with OSX -which everyone knows is a UNIX based operating system. The scientific community uses computer clusters to calculate at the rate of hundreds of gigaflops They chain computers together for complex calculations. I read an article about a month ago about the specific complaint from scientific groups that you can't stack Macs. With the inclusion of Mathmatica in his keynote at MWNY, I think it is clear Steve has found another niche market...and he's going to blow the doors off with a stackable enclosure.
3) Everyone in the Digital recording industry wants to rack-mount his or her Mac. Get it off the floor and into a rack. Yes I know there are already options to rack-mount it, but if I can do it easier?then by all means.
With the right design, all of these niche markets can be satisfied. You can still keep the number of PCI slots ( Heck, give us the one back we are STILL missing from the 9600), and still make it stunning enough to be the center of attention at all the graphic design firms.
Form and Function?.sound familiar ?
I think the desktop macs will be as curvy as the QuickSilver and the server case will be the Titanium-Aluminum box that everyone want s to be rack mnountable.
i think Steve still wants to see his desktop mac on the desktops, and I think he's going to make them look like sculpture.
MSKR
PowerMac Servers= rackmount.
They see the simplistic nature of Apple's peripherals and finishes and publications, and they see the minimalist, nearly "boring" lines of the PowerBook and iBook (especially the iBook, in comparison to the original), and they see abstraction... First, Apple went crazy with shapes and colors and transparency. Now Apple is settling down, and after going to reverse of the world for a while, they're going to the reverse of their own world, in an effort to be different and better than in the past. But it's more than that... Apple is changing into a more intelligent company, it's no longer form vs. function, it's form *and* function. If portable computers were bulbous, sculptural works of art, it would eventually impede on usability and portability. They don't have to be sweeping and curvy, they work better straight and angular, with soft corners. Desktops, however, are free to be sculptural and rounded. The new iMac is the epitome of this concept.
All of these tower-like, boxy, straight-lined and angular-looking, boring, minitower, CONVENTIONAL boxes that people are mocking up and describing and expecting for Apple to debut, they're all wrong.
And those of you who are saying "Oh, that has to be it, because then Apple would make a rack-mountable Mac!!" are even further off--not only is El Capitan perfectly rack-mountable with a little bit of extra hardware, but if Apple had wanted that market they would have grabbed it a long time ago, and if all of a sudden they decide they do indeed want to compete in the enterprise IT market with rack-mountable servers, they'll keep it quite separated from their desktop works of art. Why would they even bother giving 99% of their desktop users a rack-mountable chassis?
The towers will remain a combination of form and function.
[quote]and if all of a sudden they decide they do indeed want to compete in the enterprise IT market with rack-mountable servers, they'll keep it quite separated from their desktop works of art. Why would they even bother giving 99% of their desktop users a rack-mountable chassis? <hr></blockquote>
But I do think Apple will take aim at the rackmount market with its PowerMac Server line.
[quote] Notice the accent color of the Apple logo. <hr></blockquote>
to this:
[quote] My prediction is a silver and chrome case with squarish features. <hr></blockquote>
There's a flaw in your logic: The basic design of the display is no different from the 15, 17, & ACD. To me, this suggests that Apple is content with their current pro designs; I don't expect to see updated enclosures for a while.
<strong>You can tell by the styling of the new Cinema Display. Notice the accent color of the Apple logo. It's chrome unlike that of the 22", 17" and 15". But like the one on the iMac. But it retains the silver base color and stripes of the present displays.
My prediction is a silver and chrome case with squarish features. I've seen the future! And the future is 1950's chrome!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Dude you are one blessed with amazing powers of deduction. What an astute observation.
Chrome. White. Silver base color. Why didn't I think of that?
Now go think of something useful and post it. Who the hell cares what color the G5 case is?
<strong>I also think all signs point to a smaller tower enclosure and I think they will be stackable. </strong><hr></blockquote>I think you have an interesting idea. Apple likes to cross boundaries - the laptops especially (TiBook = desktop replacement + thin & light; iBook = subnote + consumer), but why not with the towers?
You mentioned the scientific apps that would benefit from clusters, but I'd also like to add digitial movie production.
Apple seems intent on the Hollywood market, with their new HD display, and the acquisition of Nothing Real, and Final Cut Pro. I think Steve, with Pixar, feels like he knows that crowd, and can really get in and dominate that market.
He needs a processor with better performance for rendering tasks, but if that comes, and they are easily stackable for farms, and the Nothing Real software performs well under those conditions...
despite the color of the "new" monitor, i think it might be just temporary. i think perhaps apple will come out with black and steel (chrome) combination and make the monitor case color to match. in the end, people have to somehow distinguish between "consumer" and "pro" computers, visually.... and what better way to do so then with "black" and "white"?
;-)