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Just make it a cool looking square and shove tons of hardware in it. The whole circle thing is such a bad design.
by humbleMouse 9y ago
Just make it a cool looking square and shove tons of hardware in it. The whole circle thing is such a bad design.
- pmlnr 9y agoSo, in essence, a Borg cube.
- jackhack 9y agomore closely related -- a NeXT Cube.
- krylon 9y agoWell, they already tried that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube
- jonhendry18 9y agoThat had more in common with the trash can Mac Pro. The NeXT Cube had three NuBus expansion slots that accepted boards something like 11"x11". (There were actually four connectors on the backplane; one was used for the NeXT motherboard.) Granted, there weren't many boards produced for use in the Cube. There was NeXT's own i860-based color video card, the NeXTDimension. I think there was a third-party card with multiple i860s, and there was a 3rd party card with multiple Motorola 56001 DSPs.
- mseebach 9y agoThe Apple Signature Box III.
- peatmoss 9y agoNeXT. Though the big aluminum desktops they made years ago were probably a high point for balance of beautiful and functional.
- wlesieutre 9y agoIIRC the NeXT boxes were actually magnesium.
- wlesieutre 9y agoMagnesium related addendum, here's an article about setting the NeXT Cube on fire and photographing it https://simson.net/hacks/cubefire.html https://simson.net/hacks/cubefire.html
- peatmoss 9y agoWow, I’m surprised at how hard they had to work to set the case ablaze. I wonder what kind of alloy it was made out of that made ignition so hard.
- danieldk 9y agoThough the big aluminum desktops they made years ago were probably a high point for balance of beautiful and functional. This. I think existing and potential future Mac Pro users would be perfectly happy with a cheese gater that has 2018 innards (ok, they could make it Space Gray). When it comes to Pro hardware, I think that Apple has lost the balance between aesthetics and functionality. The trash can Mac Pro is a good example of this - it's beautiful, overheating all the time and not extensible. So is the new MacBook lineup, they are beautiful. But really? 1 USB-C port on the MacBook 12" and 2 USB-C ports on the MacBook Pro Escape? I don't know of any MacBook 12"/Pro user who doesn't dislike the port selection.
- schraeds 9y agoDon't know where you bought your laptop, but my MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports.
- jonhendry18 9y agoThey could have taken the old cheese grater Mac Pro case, put in some non-embarassing hardware, made it "space gray", called it the "Mac Pro Monolith", and released it this year with ads tied into the 50th anniversary of Kubrick's 2001. Instead in 2020 we'll probably get something like the desktop computer version of the RED camera system, and priced to match. Something that Apple's very very VIP consultants can use and afford but which doesn't meet anyone else's needs or budgets.