MacDailyNews has received this image from an anonymous source that is purported to be indicative of the new Power Mac 970, which some are calling the “Power Macintosh G5.”
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While better than yesterday’s “Power Mac G5,” this image could very well be a hoax of the 3D-rendered variety, an Apple prototype case that’ll never ship, a plant by someone or some company to obfuscate the real Power Macintosh design, or an aluminum step-on wastebasket from Apple’s upcoming office accessories collection (it matches the file cabinet).
Seriously, the lack of expansion cutouts on the front of the case signals to us either a fake or that Apple plans to ship varied cases based upon the expansion needs of the customer.
What do you think?
COOOOLLL Probably a fake, but Cool
Anything’s possible… but it’s definitely pretty slick. I’d buy one.
Pretty cool looking. Kind of a cross between the current PowerMac and the Cube. Let’s hope it’s real.
Nice. The handle design fits with whats been described so far, but as the article says no ports on the front, and what about the case opening from the side? That’s one of the best features of the current PowerMac design.
These pics are all good fun, but nobody’s gonna know for sure till Monday..
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It’s not exactly a new photo as I remember seeing it many moons ago. That said, it’s still cool
This photo has been posted at Appleinsider the past two or three days. It’s a phoney.
Seems too bulky for single optical drive. Turn the drive sideways, and make it half as high and half as deep so it can be used as a desktop or a mini tower and you might have something. Sort of a squashed cube.
Me, too. I’m holding off upgrading my PowerBook until I see a 64-bit 970 PowerBook above 2GHz (if we do see that.)
The two questionable parts of this image…
1) The Apple logo seems a bit small. They’re definitely not shy about their logo on current PowerMac’s, and…
2) The photography isn’t really consistent with the way Apple typically photographs their products. (Not that they can’t change that…)
Can’t rule it out completely, though…
Right on.
Very nice. It appears to have breaks in the top and bottom moldings on the left side that might indicate the case opening on the other side. The top vents could indicate a solution to the cooling/noise problems. It does have more of that tucked in elegance that the new PBs have. We will see whether it is real or not. The biggest indication that it is fake is that it is still on the web site.
hoax!
get the real thing here!!!!
This is a fake, I saw this image along with a slew of other concepts on another web-site.
this is where the above picture come from!!!!
Fake. It’s actually to prosaic to be a real Apple design.
Not enough drive bays in front. Apple already learned from that mistake with the current G4 towers. Also, you gotta figure they would have added USB and FireWire ports to the front of the case by now.
Umm… No apple logo on the front case! So if these were all in a line, there would be no way to know it’s an Apple computer. HIGHLY unlikely Apple would ever do that!
Definitely a fake. A pretty good radiosity rendering though. The design doesn’t exactly strike me as being Apple’s particular style. Also, when have you ever known Apple to use even a portion of black background in a promo image. Never. Apple prefers all white. It uses special lighting and bounce tricks to achieve contrast, but you’lll never see black on the background itself. It’s absolutely a fake.
I’m sure it’s fake. The shadows do not look natural…there is a definate rendered/Photoshop feel to it. That being said, it might be a prototype image…it has the right feel for a Mac. If I saw something along these lines, I’d be impressed (and drooling). The new case needs to say “industrial, fast, and elegant.” This render is pretty close to that.
That image has been floating around, and people say they saw it over a year ago–just concept art, and not by Apple.
I’ll make another polite request for MDN to focus just on news–or maybe put the rumors on their own page. Simply because there are lots of rumor sites (and I like them), and having a pure-news Mac bookmark was very useful! I LIKED the lack of rumors on MDN just as much as I liked HAVING them on other sites
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where are the speakers?
the apple is created differently..
I really enjoy reading these rumour sites – especially at times like these when there is a lot interesting talk buzzing around. But it’s ssssoooo depressing to see the likes of MacDailyNews and MacRumor posting up the most dreadfully ugly and amaturish pictures of ‘the possible G5’ design. It makes any Mac fan wonder if these sites have ANY real knowledge of the area of interest they claim to be representing at all?? Does anyone seriously think a hidiously art-deco representation of – what appears to be – a pack of luxury russian cigarettes is all J Ive can come up with for the next generation of a world beating computer? If you haven’t got anything better to report on MDN, just leave to news and have a quiet day, but please don’t show your ignorance but foisting this rubbish upon us!
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I promise you this is a fake. It was posted on spymac.com in the gallery many many months ago. There are hundreds of cool looking rendered images that could look as if they are a G5.
We probably will not see any leaked photo’s of the real one, Apple will have learnt from the leak of the design of the current MDD powermac, before it was released, to allow any confidential documents to go astray.
I do like the look of this and would love to see it come true!
If this was the real thing, don’t you think Apple would have already taken it off of here? It’s nice, i would buy one, small, alot better than my Digital Audio G4 that i have.. but i hope it’s quieter! oh well…. i would like to see a keyboard that they would design with something like this… hm… oh well..
This is probably an older design. Note the use of clear plastic. They’ve moved on… and I would expect some white plastic on it somewhere. Like an iPod.