Hello All,
Not that this is big news or anything, but now that I've had time to reflect on the new G5 a bit, I've come up with some gripes with the design. The biggest one for me though is the inability to rack-mount the tower. The ability to mount a G3/G4 PowerMac with a simple accessory purchase "G·Rack" was a major design bonus.
In addition to the metal handles being built into the case itself (preventing the modification to add rack "ears"), the body of the G5 is in fact too tall (20.1") to fit onto a tray in a standard 19-inch rack in a horizontal alignment.
Perhaps this is an effort by Apple to encourage Pro-Mobile users to purchase xServes? It seems like an xServe would be inadequate for Location Recording/Mobile Video, no matter what the changes are when it is inevitably upgraded to 970 processors. Do you think this was even intentional/an oversight/didn't care/etc.?
Kind of annoying to me. I was quite excited to get my PowerMac Mobile. However, I'm still pretty psyched to receive my Dual 2ghz machine (The 20" Cinema Display I ordered with it is sitting here staring at me with a blank expression, waiting for its friend to arrive).
Anyways, curious what all of you think about this.
Ethan
Not that this is big news or anything, but now that I've had time to reflect on the new G5 a bit, I've come up with some gripes with the design. The biggest one for me though is the inability to rack-mount the tower. The ability to mount a G3/G4 PowerMac with a simple accessory purchase "G·Rack" was a major design bonus.
In addition to the metal handles being built into the case itself (preventing the modification to add rack "ears"), the body of the G5 is in fact too tall (20.1") to fit onto a tray in a standard 19-inch rack in a horizontal alignment.
Perhaps this is an effort by Apple to encourage Pro-Mobile users to purchase xServes? It seems like an xServe would be inadequate for Location Recording/Mobile Video, no matter what the changes are when it is inevitably upgraded to 970 processors. Do you think this was even intentional/an oversight/didn't care/etc.?
Kind of annoying to me. I was quite excited to get my PowerMac Mobile. However, I'm still pretty psyched to receive my Dual 2ghz machine (The 20" Cinema Display I ordered with it is sitting here staring at me with a blank expression, waiting for its friend to arrive).
Anyways, curious what all of you think about this.
Ethan
