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?
Although it’s nice, I’m fairly certain I saw this on a ‘Spymac’ gallery some time ago (sorry if anyone has already noted this – haven’t read all the comments: bedtime in the UK).
As a PowerMac G5 it seems fake and unrealistic; but as an Apple FireWire 800 RAID box it could really be nice.
FAKE!!! i could’t see apple making that
FAKE!!! i could’t see apple making that
Easy to knock over, top is an invitation to disaster-beverage spill, two drives down to one?, handles are too small for adult fingers, the new tower will be shorter, more squat, have some shiny metal elements as well as brushed metal, the OS X interface will be totally in sync with the new hardware. This thing looks like a fancy hybrid between the Cube and the Cube’s power brick. Imagine the Xserve with a veritcal look. I just as curious what they will call the damn things, let’s hope not G5!
And another one
http://www.spymac.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=421324
And my wishes for Monday,
I hope Apple does not join this ugly computer contest!
Its very cool, I like cube.
That’s the new Apple shredder, built especially for Arthur Andersen employees!
Fold your pages in thirds, insert into the slot in the front and press the button!
Oh, and it’s 64-bit!
that’s better than the HP server of before… Seems nice… How u open it?
If you squint, the power button looks like Steve Jobs.
Ugly as a dog’s bum, gotta be a fake.
If you imagine that thing to be Cube sized or smaller (as everyone has been implying) that could easily be the new Powermacs…
It’s friggin awesome looking, IMO, and if it had the processor power and gfx card, then I would definitely buy one. Also, as long as that could play DVDs, I don’t really need another drive bay (although internal HD space would be good)…
I bet it’s fake though, still…
I saw this case design on spymac or the apple collection about three months ago. It’s totally fabricated in the mind of one Macintosh fanboy.
Loren.
I think you should stick with news… not rumors…
this is a rendering that’s been floating around for a while
IT’S A FAKE: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=29945
It’s definitely a fake, but i really like it, can someone mod the new PPC 970 into this case for me
Well it looks a darn sight better than the rectangular beige thing they were trying to pass of a day or two ago! If it was the new PowerMac, I wouldn’t be as disappointed.
Of course, I thought the rumours were leading to a squatter, more cube-like enclosure for the G5/970? I certainly hope Apple is building something in a similar mould to an SGI Octane, NeXTCube (Steve would love that – another chance to prove he was right), an oversized Cube or Yeong Yang YY-0221. I think one real area lacking in PowerMacs ever since, well, the 9600, has been HD space. The B&W G3 design was pretty and compact but the ability to stuff half a dozen hard drives, 2 optical drives and one removable (hard drive, ZIP, whatever) hasn’t been seen in a while. The MDDs were a step in the right direction but in comparision to the average $50 PC case they’re really lagging behind in room for drives. Not good.
With IDE drives cheap and the number of regular workstation users using RAID to improve performance (even I cleared out two 4Gb SCSI drives to make a RAID using X’s RAID utility), it would be something well worth adding and would help the system – esp. when it hits 64bit with a suitable OS – be seen as a true ‘Workstation’, not just a pretty, expensive ‘Computer’.
Of course, they should go better and include 2 SATA RAID channels and two ATA/133 RAID channel on the board too.
MacMinute scooped the details on the G5 right from Apple’s website:
http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/19/g5
1.6, 1.8, or Dual 2GHz PowerPCs with up to 8GB RAM
All of the images posted so far are FAKE. (But we all already knew this!!)
The real new powermac case has a speaker, powerbutton, reset/interrupt buttons, and USB & Firewire and headphone ports all located on the front of the case.
Screenshot too (just look at the specs image):
Man, is someone at Apple FIRED!
Head on over to MacNN and have a bit of a read. They have details of the G5, with details from the Apple Store, mistakenly posted for about 25 minutes befrore being pulled. It reads:
The world’s fastest personal computer.
– 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz or Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 processors
– Up to 1GHz processor bus
– Up to 8GB of DDR SDRAM
– Fast Serial ATA hard drives
– AGP 8X Pro graphics options from NVIDIA or ATI
– Three PCI or PCI-X expansion slots
– Three USB 2.0 ports
– One FireWire 800, two FireWire 400 ports
– Bluetooth & AirPort Extreme ready
– Optical and analong audio in and out
How sweet it is!
Anyone want to buy a 4 month old PB Ti SD…..? I’ve got a desktop to buy….
Woof!
i tought that the acryhandle is to smal. it will break. the image is a fake. the box one is something like a pnetium box: no way!
cheers
Backup of Apple Store “G5” screenshot.
http://www.kowohl.de/slawomir/spezials/
To Whom it May Concern,
Another one of those great ideas, but I do not see any practicality in it. There isn’t any room for any type of additional equipment to be added. So what is the new design all about. So if someone actually thinks it is a garbage can and throws trash on it, when thinking it is going to the inside, what kind of product have you really created?
There’s no any reality to it from that point of view.
Have a great day.
Michael
I think that is a Zippo lighter made to look like an incredibly
slow Apple computer. It looks like even Apple gave up on
making the super drive work cause i dont see a slot –oh maybe
its that line at the top. You know what is even funnier? An
Apple Warranty.