New PowerMac pictures leaked

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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
Those pics are available on the french site Macbidouille.com

personally I find it ugly



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  • Reply 1 of 688
    If this is indeed it, the metal plates correspond to Apple's new metallic logo.



    Not to mention that Stevie isn't going to be to happy about this.
  • Reply 2 of 688
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    Ouch! Hmm i find this rather Intriguing... What do others think???



    <img src="confused.gif" border="0">



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  • Reply 3 of 688
    addisonaddison Posts: 1,185member
    Hell, this is a hugh leak. It's a shame we don't have any details to go with it though.
  • Reply 4 of 688
    marcukmarcuk Posts: 4,442member
    thats wierd, where are the ram slots?, why does the fan on the pulldown side have no corresponding hole in the outside view?. Why is the processor mounted diagonally? It says ©2001 on the mainboard, What is that huge PCI card that looks like it contains huge banks of chips all over the side we cant see? What are the 4 closed slots on the fron of the machine? And what is the point of that metal plate?



    Looks abit wierd too.
  • Reply 5 of 688
    toofeutoofeu Posts: 73member
    Well if it is really the new case I?ll be bitterly disappointed... when will we see a REAL BRAND NEW design????

    Personally I?m tired of the elcapitan case.

    I thought that apple could be more creative...
  • Reply 6 of 688
    pesipesi Posts: 424member
    interesting and baffling at the same time...



    the board looks very similar to the "red board" that was on eBay a while ago.



    if i remmeber that board right, the ram slots are hidden in the view by the AGP card.



    the diagonal chip is not the processor. the processor daughtercard plugs into the white connector near the top, i think.



    i would assume this is an unfinished testing unit. that may explain the large unidentified card... some type of diagnostic card.



    as for the case... hopefully it's unfinished. any guess as to what those four notches on the front are? they seem kind of superfluous for an apple design.
  • Reply 6 of 688
    I think the four "slots" are ports. 2x USB 2x Firewire.



    But Where's the CD-Rom? Isn't that Metal-thing too small for a CD-Rom? Looks like HD-Dreivebays to me.



    And the 2001 Copyright is irritating me too.
  • Reply 6 of 688
    addisonaddison Posts: 1,185member
    I think it will be hard to improve on the Elcapitan
  • Reply 9 of 688
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    MarcUK, if you look at the current cases, you'll see that a huge 120 mm fan blows straight into the side panel.



    That board reminds me a lot of the red board on eBay. The diagonal cuts, the inverted positioning of the PCI slots....the dual IDE connectors. Looks like there's a different cage design for the drives too.



    This is not your father's El Capitan. It's certainly different on the inside, which is what matters in the end.



    pesi, that diagonal chip is the processor. Looks like any other Motorola MPC745x.



    Looks like the top photo is stretched a bit. I don't think it's that tall/skinny.



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  • Reply 10 of 688
    telomartelomar Posts: 1,804member
    Not that it matters too much but that is about the ugliest mac I have ever seen :eek: It also looks taller.



    Meanwhile why can't they take a good overhead shot of the top of the board. What's with the oblique angles <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />



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  • Reply 11 of 688
    [quote]Originally posted by MarcUK:

    <strong>thats wierd, where are the ram slots?, why does the fan on the pulldown side have no corresponding hole in the outside view?. Why is the processor mounted diagonally? It says ©2001 on the mainboard, What is that huge PCI card that looks like it contains huge banks of chips all over the side we cant see? What are the 4 closed slots on the fron of the machine? And what is the point of that metal plate?



    Looks abit wierd too.</strong><hr></blockquote>





    The more I look at it the more I agree that it looks weird. Like the fan placement! Not to mention that one card that has all the chips on it. Perhaps we are looking at an old proto-type design and nothing that's planned to be released.



    I think only time will tell on this one, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is that we'll see for the next release.
  • Reply 12 of 688
    jet powersjet powers Posts: 288member
    Somebody in Cupertino is going to be fired.



    Nevertheless, it's white. I guess we should've expected that.



    Also, let's hope both drive bays are full-sized.



    Finally, what are the four ports along the bottom? I hope those are FW and USB.



    Looks good to me.



    Can anyone figure out from the pics if the damn thing is a 'true DDR' box?



    ting5
  • Reply 13 of 688
    nadennaden Posts: 28member
    I spoke to the guy in charge of hardware engineering a couple of years back at WWDC. He mentioned that they often have heaps and heaps of prototype designs that they send out as testing units.



    So I am *hoping* that this is one of those prototypes. Because it is damn ugly and damn strange.
  • Reply 14 of 688
    [quote]Originally posted by goof_ball:

    <strong>





    but I wouldn't be surprised if this is that we'll see for the next release.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Sorry, this made no sense. It should read:



    but I wouldn't be surprised if this is NOT what we'll see released next.
  • Reply 14 of 688
    pesipesi Posts: 424member
    okay... i stand corrected on the processor. but why solder it to the board? does this peg what we see as a development box and not finished product?



    and with the placement of the drive bays... wouldn't they get in the way of the internals when the door is shut?



    i know somebody here has a pic of the "red board" anyone care to post? (i don't feel like rummaging through old threads)
  • Reply 16 of 688
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    [quote]Originally posted by pesi:

    <strong>okay... i stand corrected on the processor. but why solder it to the board? does this peg what we see as a development box and not finished product?



    and with the placement of the drive bays... wouldn't they get in the way of the internals when the door is shut?



    i know somebody here has a pic of the "red board" anyone care to post? (i don't feel like rummaging through old threads)</strong><hr></blockquote>



    The CPU's not on the board, it's on a riser.



    I don't see any problems with the drive bays. The connector on the right looks like it's for the optical drive.



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  • Reply 16 of 688
    marcukmarcuk Posts: 4,442member
    [quote]Originally posted by pesi:

    <strong>okay... i stand corrected on the processor. but why solder it to the board? does this peg what we see as a development box and not finished product?



    and with the placement of the drive bays... wouldn't they get in the way of the internals when the door is shut?



    i know somebody here has a pic of the "red board" anyone care to post? (i don't feel like rummaging through old threads)</strong><hr></blockquote>





    Its not soldererd to the main board. If you look at the middle photo, its a close up of the daughterboard in the bottom photo, (look at the chip positions and the mounting holes), which is the same as current pmacs.



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  • Reply 18 of 688
    pesipesi Posts: 424member
    [quote]Originally posted by MarcUK:

    <strong>





    Its not soldererd to the main board. If you look at the middle photo, its a close up of the daughterboard in the bottom photo, (look at the chip positions and the mounting holes), which is the same as current pmacs. Also that chip isn't a 7450 or 7455. Double checking this ATM.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    ah... okay, i see it now. the two kind of blend together in the bottom photo.
  • Reply 19 of 688
    jet powersjet powers Posts: 288member
    So the PCI/AGP are at the top? Well that's....well, I was going to say 'messed up', but I guess it's no more arbitrary than being at the bottom.....



    Actually, now that I see the red board, I'm confused again. Something seems backward, but I can't figure out if it's my head, or the mainboard.



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    ting5



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  • Reply 19 of 688
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    [quote]Also that chip isn't a 7450 or 7455<hr></blockquote>



    Looks like any other 745x to me... I own a machine with these CPUs you know...



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    (taken from <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/pmg4_1000_1200.html"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/pmg4_1000_1200.html</a>; )



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