MP 7,1 Mac Pro Design - No Jony Ive influence?

[th0masp]

My wife - who is a fashion designer - saw the Mac Pro. The first thing she said was "It doesn't look like Apple, it's not as elegant. It's very masculine. Like someone else has designed it".

I don't have her keen eye for design, but I think she might be right. It would make sense that this may be one of the first non-Ive designs to reach the market and perhaps the shape of things to come. More cool and a little less elegant?

Thought the same when seeing it. With the legs and handles sticking out like that it looks at odds with their other stuff from the Intel era and those vents look very much like a whole new style. I seem to recall reading that they hired a new face for their design team who was thought to have been responsible for this project.

Whoever did this - I'm glad they went with this design because it does not make me lust after this machine. It's not a put-off to be fair but definitely not a turn-on either. The wallet says thank you.

 

[mw360]

I suspect the design mostly came from Marc Newson who has a more eccentric boxy style IMO. I think the humpback battery case was probably one of his too.

 

[thomast0001]

But marketing-wise, notwithstanding trademark issues with Sonnet's xMac, what would they call it? 'Mac notMini'?? Or just 'Mac'?

Hmmmmmm. “Mini Mac Pro”, “Mac Semi Pro”, “Mac Junior”, “Mac Juvie”, “Mac Pro Classic”, “Mac [Pro] Redux”, “Nu Mac Pro”, “Mac Cento”, “Mac [Fuji, Gala, Baldwin, Ambrosia, Macoun]”, “Value Mac”, “Mac Bruit”, “Mac Edsel”, “Mac Dreamcast”. Not all of these should be taken seriously. Maybe none of them...

 

[Allyance]

I am sure anyone contemplating buying a Mac Pro is not buying it purely for it's esthetic design, but for it's performance and ability to work at full speed, which requires significant cooling and heat dissipation.

"To create the structure, a spherical array is machined onto the internal and external surfaces of the aluminum. The result is a lightweight lattice pattern that maximizes airflow while creating an extremely rigid structure."