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Great work. ps. The hardware structure design of the NMP is great, but WHY THE HELL apple make it a cylender? And WHY it is black and glossy, differ from any o

Great work. ps. The hardware structure design of the NMP is great, but WHY THE HELL apple make it a cylender? And WHY it is black and glossy, differ from any other Apple hardware.

sliverstorm 13y ago
A cylinder is a very silly shape for a computer IMO but that's just the sort of thing Apple does. They might even have brainstorming sessions that go, "Ok what would our competitors *NEVER* do. Yes Dave?" "Make a cylindrical computer!" "Brilliant!"
- malandrew 13y ago
  I'm waiting until the next MacPro looks like the monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey. The entire grey black slab could slowly pulse a über faint glow like the power light on late model PowerBooks. The idea would be to eliminate all indicator lights and make the entire monolith surface into the indicator that it's on and replace brightness with area. I present to you, your next MacPro: http://atypicalsnowman.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2001_monolith.jpg http://atypicalsnowman.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2001_mono...
ryanmcbride 13y ago
To make it stand out. That's pretty much it. We wouldn't be talking about it right now if it wasn't some weird black cylinder. Say what you want about Apple, but they definitely know how to market.
evanspa 13y ago
For what it's worth, on the Mac Pro product page, there's a snippet about a "Unified thermal core" with a graphic showing a birds-eye view of the machine that would lead me to believe the cylindrical design has an actual purpose to it.
- be5invis 13y ago
  The thermal design is pretty straightforward. It was used in some supercomputers, as I know. But, why the "chassis" is a cylinder? They can use the same shape as the G4 cube, seriously.
mixmastamyk 13y ago
It doesn't need to be, but the fan is circular, making it a slightly more efficient shape. They probably made the first one aluminum color and thought it looked like a trash can, hence the black color.

Great work. ps. The hardware structure design of the NMP is great, but WHY THE HELL apple make it a cylender? And WHY it is black and glossy, differ from any other Apple hardware.

sliverstorm 13y ago

A cylinder is a very silly shape for a computer IMO but that's just the sort of thing Apple does. They might even have brainstorming sessions that go, "Ok what would our competitors *NEVER* do. Yes Dave?" "Make a cylindrical computer!" "Brilliant!"

malandrew 13y ago
I'm waiting until the next MacPro looks like the monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey. The entire grey black slab could slowly pulse a über faint glow like the power light on late model PowerBooks. The idea would be to eliminate all indicator lights and make the entire monolith surface into the indicator that it's on and replace brightness with area. I present to you, your next MacPro: http://atypicalsnowman.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2001_monolith.jpg http://atypicalsnowman.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2001_mono...

ryanmcbride 13y ago

To make it stand out. That's pretty much it. We wouldn't be talking about it right now if it wasn't some weird black cylinder. Say what you want about Apple, but they definitely know how to market.

evanspa 13y ago

For what it's worth, on the Mac Pro product page, there's a snippet about a "Unified thermal core" with a graphic showing a birds-eye view of the machine that would lead me to believe the cylindrical design has an actual purpose to it.

be5invis 13y ago
The thermal design is pretty straightforward. It was used in some supercomputers, as I know. But, why the "chassis" is a cylinder? They can use the same shape as the G4 cube, seriously.

mixmastamyk 13y ago

It doesn't need to be, but the fan is circular, making it a slightly more efficient shape. They probably made the first one aluminum color and thought it looked like a trash can, hence the black color.