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It could have been so beautiful
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Looks a lot like a microphone. Actually, it looks even more like a trash can, almost identical to one I had from IKEA a few years ago.
The idea of an all round perforation isn't bad though, as it could be used to pull in more air, but I think the thermal core thing covers the new Mac Pro pretty well.
I actually really like the new Mac Pro design, though I actually wish it were more black than shiny; it looks awesome on the Mac Pro page, but when you see it in real-world settings I'm actually not as keen. Still looks good, but it's going to depend a lot on what you put around it.
The idea of an all round perforation isn't bad though, as it could be used to pull in more air, but I think the thermal core thing covers the new Mac Pro pretty well.
I actually really like the new Mac Pro design, though I actually wish it were more black than shiny; it looks awesome on the Mac Pro page, but when you see it in real-world settings I'm actually not as keen. Still looks good, but it's going to depend a lot on what you put around it.
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Pretty neat. Perforations make it look a little like a speaker. Maybe if the perforated area was space grey. Still interesting.
There would have to be some reinforcement under the holes. One misplaced finger and you have a dent you can't get out.
The new MP has taken the cooling system design applied to the old G4 lamp shade iMac and developed a way of making a much more powerful Mac cool much better than the Cube G4 they designed previously. Windtunnel design works nicely from bottom to top. The structure is dictated by this design. It is clever I reckon.
Exactly - my first thought was "why a round cheese grater?".
The cheese grater design is very old and stale, IMO it would be a mistake to burden the new Mac Mini Pro with design ties to the old maxi-tower.
And I think that the Mac Mini Pro is a phenomenal upgrade for the Mac Mini. (And a phenomenal price increase - but what the heck, it's from Apple.)
But, unless your main workflow is a small memory, primarily OpenCL-based set of apps -- the Mac Mini Pro is a disaster.
They should have named it the "Mac FCPX", since it seems to be focused solely on that one app.
The first question that popped into my head was... "I wonder if I could shave with that?" Looks more like a Gillette product
I don't care what color it is. I just with the $2999 model came with 512gb and 6 core. THEN, I'd justify it.
You seem to be missing the point that it's a cylinder design due to the Unified Thermal Core, which means it doesn't need the cheese grater air vents. With the amount of fur our cat molts, this would end up looking like a headless teddy bear after a few months 
Yeah, I think the holes would put the thermal design into fits.
Imagine heater vents with perforated vent work in the walls. Not much velocity to air movement.
When I think "it could have been" I imagine a slightly smaller chassis, lower and swoopier. Either NO OD or a single.
Lower and squatter with Dual CPU, 8-12 RAM slots and 4-6 PCIE slots. All good with PCIE SSD but like in an iMac (an iMac, fer crissake) you can have an SSD AND a HD or 4. USB 3 , PCIE 3 and TB2. Imagine being amazed that they had ADDED to MP instead of all the stuff they took out.
Specs that would have the serious crowd nodding in appreciation instead of snickering at "the sheep".
Imagine heater vents with perforated vent work in the walls. Not much velocity to air movement.
When I think "it could have been" I imagine a slightly smaller chassis, lower and swoopier. Either NO OD or a single.
Lower and squatter with Dual CPU, 8-12 RAM slots and 4-6 PCIE slots. All good with PCIE SSD but like in an iMac (an iMac, fer crissake) you can have an SSD AND a HD or 4. USB 3 , PCIE 3 and TB2. Imagine being amazed that they had ADDED to MP instead of all the stuff they took out.
Specs that would have the serious crowd nodding in appreciation instead of snickering at "the sheep".
These images demonstrate why Ive gets to design Apple products, and you, or we, don't. He's very, very good, and we're very very mediocre.
I'm happy that it's this way round!
I'm happy that it's this way round!
I agree - unless maybe it were a matte/brushed black finish instead of glossy.
So that the cheese can be grated in 360° of course!
LOL that's funny!
Yes yes yes! And one of those 6 PCIe 3.0 slots could have been a third x16, and yet another slot or two at x8 to have an option between the x4 and x16 extremes in the current config (for example, for RAID cards that need more than x4 but less than x16 for full throughput).
I'd have been happy if they just gave us this new design but with two slots for SSDs; I just can't understand why there's only one except that they're probably maxing out the PCIe bandwidth with two GPUs, a PCIe SSD and six Thunderbolt 2 ports.
Even so, I can't believe they couldn't find a way to fit a slim 2.5" drive on the other side, as they could have just used regular SATA for that, giving us access to at least an internal Fusion Drive.
They could also have given us eSATA, maybe even Mini-SAS ports to take advantage of the SATA support in the chipset. Would also have made it easier for people to migrate existing external RAID, rather than having to look for PCIe adaptors.
Those small extras would have made it perfect, as otherwise I love the new form factor.