Idea Apple goes back to the Desktop stlye case. It could easy use a board much like this one. They could put 4 Drive bays in it.
On another note in the PC world high end cases are made of Alumium. Not only does it look cool but it works as a big heat sink... Hmm could heat with the heat problems???
<strong>Idea Apple goes back to the Desktop stlye case. It could easy use a board much like this one. They could put 4 Drive bays in it.
On another note in the PC world high end cases are made of Alumium. Not only does it look cool but it works as a big heat sink... Hmm could heat with the heat problems???</strong><hr></blockquote>
No way. Xserves are 36" deep. Where would I save my deskspace that I gained with my beautiful Apple LCD displays?
Brushed-Metal or not... I just pray that Ives doesn't tip the scales of form:function balance.
Regardless of how "cool" the new enclosure looks and if it's brushed-metal... I (like most users) have cables galore coming out of my Mac's backside. As I look at it right now, there are 10 cables coming out and beside it, a stack of USB hubs giving me 25 USB ports... most of them filled.
What's my point...? I'd hate to see a design where the "mess" of cables are not adequately accessable, nor prominently displayed. The current form-factor sits on my desk sideways... where I see the Apple logo, and the panel open's towards me... cables easilly accessible and visible.
The reality is... Pro users don't always "setup & forget it"... we need to get back there and into the chassis regularly. I just hope they don't mess-up current ease of access.
<strong>I want the G5. Apple can wrap it in an ugly beige box for all I care. The leisurely pace of Motorola's G4 development is getting really old.</strong><hr></blockquote>
How in the hell would you get a G5 in the old iBook?!?!?
Anyway, I think people who reduce the Apple's design fetishism into 'shiny white' for consumers and 'brushed metal' for pros is really missing the larger context of 'random style flashes that zig and zag from expectations'.
Designwise, Apple dashes hither and fro' always changing things up.
First, it's bondi! (Original iMac)
Now it's curvy! (Original el Capitan)
Now it's fruity! (iMacs)
Now it's graphite! (iMacs, again)
Now it's rubbery! (iBook)
Now it's Gap colors! (iMacs, my favorite, btw)
Now it's white! (iBook 2, iPod)
Now it's square! (iBook 2, tiBook, iPod)
Now it's titanium! (tiBook)
Now it's a sunflower! (iMac 2)
Now it's steel! (Xserve)
So, the next Powermac case?!?!? I'm betting on something out of a Frank Gehry acid trip.
It seems that the metals are condusive to packing things in tight spaces (tibook, xserve). I can't think of a way that Ive might use metals in the PowerMac line that would be constructive in assisting the expandability issue. Unless it's a boring, tall box (which I will simply never purchase).
As far as more bays go? I would say that the addition of a 3.25" external drive might be nice for zips, leaving the biggies for cds.
you don't take your PM into bed, so it can be as cold as it wants, if you ask me, especially as cold = good for the parts.
I'd welcome a design close to the Lian Li PC aluminium cases, they're square, but simple and stylish is nice. And with Jon's talent, I'm sure they could work miracles out of a little brushed alu or titanium or whatever it's going to be.
<strong>I hope the Nwqe G4s will still have handles and are easy to open.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well... I can't speak for the HANDLES... but I'm sure they will keep the same ease of entry if not make it better. Just look at the Xserve... could access BE any easier...?
Again... the only time I found the handles useful was when I worked at a large firm and we did a lot of moving of the design department... but even then... we used equipment carts to actually MOVE the hardware... the handles just made it easier to lift on & off the cart.
They are beautiful in form, and useful (to some) in function... but I don't know how "necessary" the handles are overall. Just my 2 cents.
Not good. I like those buttons, but just like typical Apple - that Firewire recess will only function with a Apple branded Firewire cable!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Are you basing that one some other info, or just the shape of the port? Cause that sure looks like a normal 6-pin firewire port to me...
I was thinking the case would be another tower with a generally smaller size than current PM's. This is accomplished by removing the handles and just streamlining the current form factor.
Color-wise I would think it would be the apple white with titanium or chrome accents to distinguish it as "professional" from the imacs.
Ive seen a website that had user-submitted "future" macintosh pictures. I cant remember the website, anyone know what Im talking about?
By the by, I would love a desktop version of this PM as well but thats dreaming. maybe they could do what compaq did with their (crappy) deskpro line of computers (aka the noisiest computers ever) and put the drives on a sled that can be rotated 90deg.
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On another note in the PC world high end cases are made of Alumium. Not only does it look cool but it works as a big heat sink... Hmm could heat with the heat problems???
<strong>Idea Apple goes back to the Desktop stlye case. It could easy use a board much like this one. They could put 4 Drive bays in it.
On another note in the PC world high end cases are made of Alumium. Not only does it look cool but it works as a big heat sink... Hmm could heat with the heat problems???</strong><hr></blockquote>
No way. Xserves are 36" deep. Where would I save my deskspace that I gained with my beautiful Apple LCD displays?
Not a very well thought-out idea.
dull/brushed grey metal = pro
shiny white plastic = consumers
Ironically, the exact opposite will be true, for applications, come Jag-wire.
Regardless of how "cool" the new enclosure looks and if it's brushed-metal... I (like most users) have cables galore coming out of my Mac's backside. As I look at it right now, there are 10 cables coming out and beside it, a stack of USB hubs giving me 25 USB ports... most of them filled.
What's my point...? I'd hate to see a design where the "mess" of cables are not adequately accessable, nor prominently displayed. The current form-factor sits on my desk sideways... where I see the Apple logo, and the panel open's towards me... cables easilly accessible and visible.
The reality is... Pro users don't always "setup & forget it"... we need to get back there and into the chassis regularly. I just hope they don't mess-up current ease of access.
<strong>You can count on the brushed (or unfinished, more like it) metal, though.
dull/brushed grey metal = pro
shiny white plastic = consumers
Ironically, the exact opposite will be true, for applications, come Jag-wire.
iMovie, iDVD = consumer = white
FCP, DVDSP = pro = gray
i don't see how that should change with jaguar
Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, etc. = stripey white
Got that right.
Lemon Bon Bon
<strong>I want the G5. Apple can wrap it in an ugly beige box for all I care. The leisurely pace of Motorola's G4 development is getting really old.</strong><hr></blockquote>
How in the hell would you get a G5 in the old iBook?!?!?
Anyway, I think people who reduce the Apple's design fetishism into 'shiny white' for consumers and 'brushed metal' for pros is really missing the larger context of 'random style flashes that zig and zag from expectations'.
Designwise, Apple dashes hither and fro' always changing things up.
First, it's bondi! (Original iMac)
Now it's curvy! (Original el Capitan)
Now it's fruity! (iMacs)
Now it's graphite! (iMacs, again)
Now it's rubbery! (iBook)
Now it's Gap colors! (iMacs, my favorite, btw)
Now it's white! (iBook 2, iPod)
Now it's square! (iBook 2, tiBook, iPod)
Now it's titanium! (tiBook)
Now it's a sunflower! (iMac 2)
Now it's steel! (Xserve)
So, the next Powermac case?!?!? I'm betting on something out of a Frank Gehry acid trip.
ting5
<strong>iChat, iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto = brushed metal
Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, etc. = stripey white</strong><hr></blockquote>
sorry, i was wrong about the apple iApps. what about:
apple programs = gray
third party apps = white
As far as more bays go? I would say that the addition of a 3.25" external drive might be nice for zips, leaving the biggies for cds.
Pres
Nonetheless, if Apple were to go the route of a stainless steel Powermac, I only hope they use it sparingly.
Perhaps it's a combination of materials to give it a warmer feel rather than simply something entirely made from a slab of industrial steel.
I'd welcome a design close to the Lian Li PC aluminium cases, they're square, but simple and stylish is nice. And with Jon's talent, I'm sure they could work miracles out of a little brushed alu or titanium or whatever it's going to be.
As long as it's not plutonium, it's fine with me.
G-News
<strong>Some interesting detail on the xServe case:
Not good. I like those buttons, but just like typical Apple - that Firewire recess will only function with a Apple branded Firewire cable!
<strong>I hope the Nwqe G4s will still have handles and are easy to open.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well... I can't speak for the HANDLES... but I'm sure they will keep the same ease of entry if not make it better. Just look at the Xserve... could access BE any easier...?
Again... the only time I found the handles useful was when I worked at a large firm and we did a lot of moving of the design department... but even then... we used equipment carts to actually MOVE the hardware... the handles just made it easier to lift on & off the cart.
They are beautiful in form, and useful (to some) in function... but I don't know how "necessary" the handles are overall. Just my 2 cents.
- Scott
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Not good. I like those buttons, but just like typical Apple - that Firewire recess will only function with a Apple branded Firewire cable!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Are you basing that one some other info, or just the shape of the port? Cause that sure looks like a normal 6-pin firewire port to me...
so ummm, its ok
My bet:
Bad-ass metal style case, but really stylish (think quicksilver coloured but in metal, with various other additions to it).
One firewire port, one fibre firewire port (FW2) accessable on the front
Two 5.25's
Color-wise I would think it would be the apple white with titanium or chrome accents to distinguish it as "professional" from the imacs.
Ive seen a website that had user-submitted "future" macintosh pictures. I cant remember the website, anyone know what Im talking about?
By the by, I would love a desktop version of this PM as well but thats dreaming. maybe they could do what compaq did with their (crappy) deskpro line of computers (aka the noisiest computers ever) and put the drives on a sled that can be rotated 90deg.
Waiting to upgrade from 7500/200