After all the effort Apple went to in order to hide ports on the iMac and conveniently put them out of the way and to the side on the iBook, I'd be surprised if Apple had them sticking out the front on a Tower all ugly and cables everywhere.
Hmm. Shame it aint white. Still. No matter. I quite like the current Quicksilver design. Just STICK a 'G5' in it!!!
Next gen' 'ready' eh?
Der-rool, der-rool.
Specs, anyone?
Macuser seem to think that G5s would be ready by the years end...around September.
Could...could the 'massive' heatsink be an indicator of this?
<strong>Why...why would they need 'air vents' on a 'power'Mac?</strong><hr></blockquote>So it goes faster...oh wait no that is painting it red. Nevermind
<strong>Nahh, kidding aside, if they had one of the new G4s with 0.13µ fab process shouldn't that alone make it run a lot cooler?
So really, why does it need to have such a huge heatsink and fan?</strong><hr></blockquote>It's possible that the G4 has been significantly redesigned and now produces a lot more heat.
More likely the explanation lies in the G5 ready part. Everything I have heard and know of the G5 says it is a hot chip by PPC standards.
the pdf suggests that drive 1,2 would have to be stacked vertically. Now I have never seen a computer that required you to stack the hds vertically. That's DEFINITELY not going to help the longevity and reliability of the drive mechanism.
Also that case is downright butt-ugly.
I'll conclude when everything is official, but until then, SDRAM and that case are shunning me off about as much as the 99$ fee on .mac.
<strong>the pdf suggests that drive 1,2 would have to be stacked vertically. Now I have never seen a computer that required you to stack the hds vertically. That's DEFINITELY not going to help the longevity and reliability of the drive mechanism.
Also that case is downright butt-ugly.
I'll conclude when everything is official, but until then, SDRAM and that case are shunning me off about as much as the 99$ fee on .mac.
G-News</strong><hr></blockquote>
1) HDDs are stacked vertically all the time in racked server environments. Xserve RAID will have HDDs stacked vertically.
2) Those slots are not PC133. You can see that those slots are keyed like DDR SDRAM slots and not like older SDRAM slots.
<strong>the pdf suggests that drive 1,2 would have to be stacked vertically. Now I have never seen a computer that required you to stack the hds vertically. That's DEFINITELY not going to help the longevity and reliability of the drive mechanism.
Also that case is downright butt-ugly.
I'll conclude when everything is official, but until then, SDRAM and that case are shunning me off about as much as the 99$ fee on .mac.
G-News</strong><hr></blockquote>
We'll Apple engineer have deemed it fit to stack them vertically, I won't argue.
As for the SDRAM, the PDF is wrong. This machine has DDR RAM. Whoever did the PDF didn't recognize DDR RAM. I have a picture of the eBay logic board with DDR RAM on it and its identical to the one in this machine.
you would have thought Apple might have pulled it by now........... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
I for my part find the aluminium bay doors butt ugly. either all white or all aluminium, but this photo looks more like a hack than a product of industrial designers.
I like how the PDF says "Next Generation G5 Ready"
The case design/info I believe is genuine. The "red eBay mobo" is practically the same as the mobo in the pictures/PDF.
I believe all of this is very close to what we will see within the next month.
Personally, I don't really care what the outside looks like, as long as I get 2 external 5.25" CD drive bays.
The 4 ports on the bottom of the case are air inlets (not USB/Firewire ports) though I'm not sure if they're functional.
I'm jazzed about this.
EDIT: One thing that does worry me - Where's the Reset Switch? Unless Apple turned the Power Button into a PC style button, where if you hold the Power button on PCs for about 4 seconds, the unit reboots.
The missing Programmer's button also seems to indicate that it may not be needed anymore.
[quote]Originally posted by GnOm:
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not wrong but lacking.
It is Synchronous and Dynamic (SD) RAM anyway, no matter if it is Single Data Rate or Double Data Rate.
It does seem from the one photo of the case like it would not be that hard to fake if you had a B&W G3 or G4 case laying around. I'm puzzled too since the red board had FW2, course it's been said it's a later board, seems kinda atrange. I mean they feel brave enough to take the heat sink off the processor card to get a picture but not brave enough to get a pic of the back of the inside of the case showing the vertical HD and the Slim PS?
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Hmm. Shame it aint white. Still. No matter. I quite like the current Quicksilver design. Just STICK a 'G5' in it!!!
Next gen' 'ready' eh?
Der-rool, der-rool.
Specs, anyone?
Macuser seem to think that G5s would be ready by the years end...around September.
Could...could the 'massive' heatsink be an indicator of this?
Lemon Bon Bon
Lemon Bon Bon
<strong>I'm inclined to believe Apple58. </strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm inclined to believe he's the real deal too. Lets just hope he has a job come tomorrow
<strong>Why...why would they need 'air vents' on a 'power'Mac?
Lemon Bon Bon</strong><hr></blockquote>
Heat!
<strong>Why...why would they need 'air vents' on a 'power'Mac?</strong><hr></blockquote>So it goes faster...oh wait no that is painting it red. Nevermind
<strong>Why...why would they need 'air vents' on a 'power'Mac?
Lemon Bon Bon</strong><hr></blockquote>
Two possibilities why they neet airvents and that monstrous heatsink.
1. They have new processor that puts out lots of heat. (not likely)
2. They want to make the new towers more silent.
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I'm inclined to believe he's the real deal too. Lets just hope he has a job come tomorrow
I hope so too! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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1. They have new processor that puts out lots of heat.</strong><hr></blockquote>
must be the Power4 or 5
Nahh, kidding aside, if they had one of the new G4s with 0.13µ fab process shouldn't that alone make it run a lot cooler?
So really, why does it need to have such a huge heatsink and fan?
bye.
<strong>Nahh, kidding aside, if they had one of the new G4s with 0.13µ fab process shouldn't that alone make it run a lot cooler?
So really, why does it need to have such a huge heatsink and fan?</strong><hr></blockquote>It's possible that the G4 has been significantly redesigned and now produces a lot more heat.
More likely the explanation lies in the G5 ready part. Everything I have heard and know of the G5 says it is a hot chip by PPC standards.
<strong>Why a French site? I'm not sure, such a sketchy event is so convincing.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why not a french site ?
What a dumb post !
Also that case is downright butt-ugly.
I'll conclude when everything is official, but until then, SDRAM and that case are shunning me off about as much as the 99$ fee on .mac.
G-News
<strong>the pdf suggests that drive 1,2 would have to be stacked vertically. Now I have never seen a computer that required you to stack the hds vertically. That's DEFINITELY not going to help the longevity and reliability of the drive mechanism.
Also that case is downright butt-ugly.
I'll conclude when everything is official, but until then, SDRAM and that case are shunning me off about as much as the 99$ fee on .mac.
G-News</strong><hr></blockquote>
1) HDDs are stacked vertically all the time in racked server environments. Xserve RAID will have HDDs stacked vertically.
2) Those slots are not PC133. You can see that those slots are keyed like DDR SDRAM slots and not like older SDRAM slots.
[ 07-21-2002: Message edited by: Eugene ]</p>
<strong>the pdf suggests that drive 1,2 would have to be stacked vertically. Now I have never seen a computer that required you to stack the hds vertically. That's DEFINITELY not going to help the longevity and reliability of the drive mechanism.
Also that case is downright butt-ugly.
I'll conclude when everything is official, but until then, SDRAM and that case are shunning me off about as much as the 99$ fee on .mac.
G-News</strong><hr></blockquote>
We'll Apple engineer have deemed it fit to stack them vertically, I won't argue.
As for the SDRAM, the PDF is wrong. This machine has DDR RAM. Whoever did the PDF didn't recognize DDR RAM. I have a picture of the eBay logic board with DDR RAM on it and its identical to the one in this machine.
We are getting DDR RAM, mark my words.
They must do this sort of thing, if so how professional do these test boards look, or are they more of a Heath Robinson affair.
<strong>As for the SDRAM, the PDF is wrong.</strong><hr></blockquote>
not wrong but lacking.
It is Synchronous and Dynamic (SD) RAM anyway, no matter if it is Single Data Rate or Double Data Rate.
bye.
I like how the PDF says "Next Generation G5 Ready"
The case design/info I believe is genuine. The "red eBay mobo" is practically the same as the mobo in the pictures/PDF.
I believe all of this is very close to what we will see within the next month.
Personally, I don't really care what the outside looks like, as long as I get 2 external 5.25" CD drive bays.
The 4 ports on the bottom of the case are air inlets (not USB/Firewire ports) though I'm not sure if they're functional.
I'm jazzed about this.
EDIT: One thing that does worry me - Where's the Reset Switch? Unless Apple turned the Power Button into a PC style button, where if you hold the Power button on PCs for about 4 seconds, the unit reboots.
The missing Programmer's button also seems to indicate that it may not be needed anymore.
[quote]Originally posted by GnOm:
<strong>
not wrong but lacking.
It is Synchronous and Dynamic (SD) RAM anyway, no matter if it is Single Data Rate or Double Data Rate.
bye.</strong><hr></blockquote>
[ 07-21-2002: Message edited by: vlad1966 ]</p>
It's interesting I'll give it that