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I'm old enough to remember the days of the "cheese grater" Power Mac/Mac Pro, when Apple would explicitly call attention to how expandable and user-serviceable

I'm old enough to remember the days of the "cheese grater" Power Mac/Mac Pro, when Apple would explicitly call attention to how expandable and user-serviceable a case they'd designed for it. How times change!

noir_lord 8y ago
I still think that the "cheese grater" was the pinnacle of apple desktop design (and I've never owned a mac), I just love it - enough that I damn near bought a broken one to use to build my new PC in the end laziness won and I went corsair but it's still an amazing piece of industrial design.
- weaksauce 8y ago
  That machine was a engineering beauty. very well thought out.
  - noir_lord 8y ago
    It really was, it still looks better than the vast majority of modern PC cases with better build quality, the bigger ones all seem to be some variant of "How many RGB's can we shove in this" with flimsy plastic and sharp edges. I went with one of these in the end https://www.corsair.com/ca/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Carbide-Series%E2%84%A2-100R-Silent-Edition-Mid-Tower-Case/p/CC-9011077-WW https://www.corsair.com/ca/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Carb... because it's a box to put bits in, no fuss, no muss no RGB.
    - weaksauce 8y ago
      my last computer i built i went with a fractal design case and couldn't be happier really. they make excellent cases. the drives are not in the main chamber so it is a completely void airflow design for the major components and all the routing is done nicely. really great design. That corsair one looks pretty nice for a standard layout case though. https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-series/define-s https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-ser... edit: also it's laid out to be super silent and if you pair it with the right components it is quite.
- madeofpalk 8y ago
  If by 'pinnacle of apple design design' you mean actively user hostile, then yeah! The handles on that thing were rough.
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    The new Mac Pro doesn't even have handles, so…
ihuman 8y ago
It hasn't been that long since the tower-style Mac Pro. The current design only came out in 2013.
- jbverschoor 8y ago
  And was introduced 2003. 16 years ago.
raverbashing 8y ago
Funny how those machines came up in the SJ era and now what we get are inconsistencies, products that are too thin for their own good and limited repairability

noir_lord 8y ago

I still think that the "cheese grater" was the pinnacle of apple desktop design (and I've never owned a mac), I just love it - enough that I damn near bought a broken one to use to build my new PC in the end laziness won and I went corsair but it's still an amazing piece of industrial design.

weaksauce 8y ago
That machine was a engineering beauty. very well thought out.
- noir_lord 8y ago
  It really was, it still looks better than the vast majority of modern PC cases with better build quality, the bigger ones all seem to be some variant of "How many RGB's can we shove in this" with flimsy plastic and sharp edges. I went with one of these in the end https://www.corsair.com/ca/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Carbide-Series%E2%84%A2-100R-Silent-Edition-Mid-Tower-Case/p/CC-9011077-WW https://www.corsair.com/ca/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Carb... because it's a box to put bits in, no fuss, no muss no RGB.
  - weaksauce 8y ago
    my last computer i built i went with a fractal design case and couldn't be happier really. they make excellent cases. the drives are not in the main chamber so it is a completely void airflow design for the major components and all the routing is done nicely. really great design. That corsair one looks pretty nice for a standard layout case though. https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-series/define-s https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-ser... edit: also it's laid out to be super silent and if you pair it with the right components it is quite.
madeofpalk 8y ago
If by 'pinnacle of apple design design' you mean actively user hostile, then yeah! The handles on that thing were rough.
- saagarjha 8y ago
  The new Mac Pro doesn't even have handles, so…

ihuman 8y ago

It hasn't been that long since the tower-style Mac Pro. The current design only came out in 2013.

jbverschoor 8y ago
And was introduced 2003. 16 years ago.

raverbashing 8y ago

Funny how those machines came up in the SJ era and now what we get are inconsistencies, products that are too thin for their own good and limited repairability