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The design seems pretty ugly to me, but it is functional. It's essentially a wind tunnel with all the circuit boards placed against it.
by podperson 13y ago
The design seems pretty ugly to me, but it is functional. It's essentially a wind tunnel with all the circuit boards placed against it.
- damon_c 13y agoYeah, the cylinder design seemed a little bit "what?" at first, but after seeing the airflow demo... it makes a lot more sense.
- bluthru 13y agoIt's a pure cylinder. How can a basic form be ugly? I'm pretty impressed that they didn't slap a logo on the front.
- stcredzero 13y agoA cylinder is not a Platonic solid.
- fluffyllemon 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
- cake 13y agoGood point, I haven't seen any logo. Maybe it's still in the works and will later.
- mike-cardwell 13y agoOn the animation titled "Expansion, vastly expanded" you see an apple logo on the case briefly before the animation stops. Top/center.
- adolph 13y agoJust like the good old Cube. Only the guts are in a triangle.
- milhous 13y agoYep, exactly my thoughts. Also, didn't Tim Cook say the mini was going to be manufactured in the US as well? And could it also be the case that the Mini will follow the Pro's form factor because it would save money in manufacturing an entirely separate low-margin unit? After seeing the Pro, I fantasized how fun it would be to have a desktop machine with several symmetric displays. My bet, the entry level Pro will be $1899-$1999.
- adolph 13y agoMy bet is that Apple will be hard pressed to keep the current 2,500 base price. Three next generation Thunderbolt connectors, expensive Xeon processors, expensive ECC RAM, expensive PCIe flash disk. They basically took all the cheap, legacy and physically large stuff off the Mac Pro and folded up the remainder into a triangle that goes into a tube. Can you believe that the old Mac Pro case and fundamental design was launched 10 years ago with the Power Mac G5?
- milhous 13y agoPretty incredible run. Both the PowerMac G5 and aluminum PowerBook G4 helped pave the way for the Intel transition. A good way to re-use R&D and save money!
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- robterrell 13y agoBut with a fan! The Cube could have used a fan in there.
- podperson 13y agoAnd the Cube was slower than the midrange Power Mac of the day, and was encased in a thick plastic case, and -- worst of all -- had a capacitive power switch which would trip by itself in humid weather.
- piggybox 13y agoAlthough I'm amazed at the thermal core design, it still looks like a litter bin somehow.