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'Dune Case' for PCs Copies Mac Pro's Cylindrical Design
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Apple sued Emachine for producing the above system. They are definitely going to take issue with this case.
Indeed the copying is shameless...
So true. I cant believe so many fan boys here are getting bent out of shape. The mac pro design wasnt original, and to achieve it, they had to castrate the ability to easily upgrade components - something that had been a hallmark of earlier mac pro design. Why anyone wants to defend apple for that crap is beyond me.
Thanks for the comments opethian .. I love designing cases and humbled by your comments .. If this is funded it will enable us to take this further and develop other cases in different mb standards. I already have some avantgarde designs for SLI configuration and ATX / ITX builds and also an unorthodox approach on placement of GPU. I believe that now is the time to take a different approach in designing PC cases using more complex manufacturing process and quality material vs what we see on the market which is stamped sheet metal. Building this case has been an exciting journey for me.
[doublepost=1455991232][/doublepost]APlotdevice thank you for your concern but as mentioned many times this is not a desktop computer .. this is a PC case
No. They. Were. Not.
They were designed to fit into a small space, not a cylinder. The components are still square, which probably means they were not designed to fit a curved enclosure.
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Whilst I’m not suggesting that you are wrong can you back this up?
I'm sure if u pitch other case designs and put them on kick-starter I'm sure those designs will get u funded more rapidly than this and then perhaps u can launch this radical design once ur established
But u must have done some market research and prospects of getting fully funded
A small suggestion if it can implemented, relocating the rear IO panel to some other location will give u free space on top of CPU block which will give enough room to install high performance CPU coolers so more PC builders will be happy to spend $130+ for such a case which will still allow room for overclocking
One question, this case can house all types of itx motherboards? There r some boards like Asus Impact itx boards which have some extra features n extra PCB attached vertically to one side, so can those motherboards be used?
And if we use flexible PCI-E riser cable can we change orientation of the motherboard?
But u must have done some market research and prospects of getting fully funded
A small suggestion if it can implemented, relocating the rear IO panel to some other location will give u free space on top of CPU block which will give enough room to install high performance CPU coolers so more PC builders will be happy to spend $130+ for such a case which will still allow room for overclocking
One question, this case can house all types of itx motherboards? There r some boards like Asus Impact itx boards which have some extra features n extra PCB attached vertically to one side, so can those motherboards be used?
And if we use flexible PCI-E riser cable can we change orientation of the motherboard?
And I'm an avid PC n hackintosh builder and I would love to buy this if it can be shipped to my country as it beings perfect design for my itx Hackintosh build, and I already own a 5k IPS display ... so all apple fanboys can hate u or ur work just because they
1. Can't afford macpro
2. Are too P*** to see prospects of some one building imac n macpro killer with this case
Hay have u tested using x99 itx motherboards also? If that is doable then this case will for sure give birth to a large number of macpro killers
1. Can't afford macpro
2. Are too P*** to see prospects of some one building imac n macpro killer with this case
Hay have u tested using x99 itx motherboards also? If that is doable then this case will for sure give birth to a large number of macpro killers
Because it was a system not a monitor
Apple sued Emachine for producing the above system. They are definitely going to take issue with this case.
"Mac Pro is a computer, not a case"
And
"This is a case not a computer"
Apples and oranges
Has apple sued HTC for making HTC ONE A9? it is carbon copy of external shape of iPhone 6s ...
I don't know if you have read this https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunecase/dune-case/posts/1494369 but it explains the technical details of the case and how things are managed. It also comes with PCIe riser cable and pcb that is sized to fit specifically for this case. When designing this case we wanted to keep the appearance simple while maintaining the functionality of the case. Its really hard to accommodate for everyone needs as there is too many variations of preferences.
The case will house standard mini ITX motherboards which means it needs to be 6.7 × 6.7 in. Anything that is a modification of that I can not guarantee the compatibility. This also applies to the GPU. The GPU max length is 185mm and two slots. PSU is also the same and must be SFX and not a modification of it.
I hope that helps... Thanks
Because of Genghis Kahn?
Design and look are different. Designs are precise, look is more about a certain style. I think their marketing is the first Apple will go after. Judging by the graphical design of their website, I believe it is too align with the way we associate with Apples marketing material.
What this company has going for itself, is that Apple isn't in the Case industry. Apple doesn't sell branded internal hardware. They are not competing with any Apple product with the case alone.
I've built mini-itx PC Hackintoshes with SSD, Hard drives, full size GPU cards, cables filled to the rim, and yes, it works very well with a single 120mm or bigger fan. It may be a little hotter than a full ATX tower, but not noticeable without benchmarking software. I have always felt fans are more style than a necessity. More than one is just makeup on a pig. Instead of adding case fans, just buy better cooling solutions for your CPU and GPU.
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Ok I noticed something a bit troubling, the case fan seems noisy at 30 dBa, being 140mm it should be much quieter than that. Here are some 140mm that are comparable but produce 19dBa http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1345-page1.html
So when apple fans r gonna sue HTC for this design/look/shape
We change case fans all the times to much quieter and more expensive fans, and I'm sure we can change this fan as well
If notcua is also one of the sponsors then they can get quite fans, but designing a fan itself is a task for another day
wow .. that's a first ..
I love noctua fans and I remember when i bought my first i7 920 i used a noctua fan and overclocked it ... it ran just as good as an i7 980x for more than half the price .. that was a while back hahahha .. but the fan that comes on this case is really nice and thin too.. we referenced thermalright fan with dimensions of L150 mm x H140 mm x W13 mm .. its actually really good and quite ... when we tested it with prime95 and furmark doing a 100% stress test surprisingly it was quite and the temps were good.
We change case fans all the times to much quieter and more expensive fans, and I'm sure we can change this fan as well
If notcua is also one of the sponsors then they can get quite fans, but designing a fan itself is a task for another day
I love noctua fans and I remember when i bought my first i7 920 i used a noctua fan and overclocked it ... it ran just as good as an i7 980x for more than half the price .. that was a while back hahahha .. but the fan that comes on this case is really nice and thin too.. we referenced thermalright fan with dimensions of L150 mm x H140 mm x W13 mm .. its actually really good and quite ... when we tested it with prime95 and furmark doing a 100% stress test surprisingly it was quite and the temps were good.
Like Samsung or HTC.... This is blatant also, perfect for someone making a hackintosh though
Well it was innovative the first time it was done
The second time it's just a cheap knock off - the bread and butter of the PC industry as of late.What's missing when people try to re-intepret Apple's sense of aesthetics is that good design (and Apple design) is strongly based on practicality - a massive triangular heatsink channeling the thermal output from a server class CPU and two high performance GPUs up to a single fan that only produces 12 dB of noise at idle and 16 dB at load. It's a brilliantly compact, simple and effective design on Apples part, with all aspects of the design focused on it's specific task - providing gobs of CPU and GPU power to a desktop system in a small and quiet form factor that happens to look sharp while it's doing it.
And in typical PC fashion, the knock off crams some off the shelf PC components into a larger, louder and lower quality knock-off chassis. A high performance build will end up being larger, slower, less power efficient with lower performance-per-dollar than it's Mac Pro counterpart (and, at best, have half the GPUs). But it's cheaper and "less fruity" so there is of course a target market for that.
Rob
Id buy this if it fit my GTX 970. But I'd love a case that looked like the classic G5 design, with maybe more ergonomic handles.
It is unfortunate that so much time and effort has been spent to create a good looking PC case that Apple will just shut down. PC cases are universally terrible, and there's really a market there.
One of these days I'll probably bite the bullet and buy a modified G5 case from eBay for my hackintosh.
The design of the Mac Pro is patented, but apparently that patent focuses on the triangular core. So I guess it'd be all right to crib the fan arrangement.
http://patents.justia.com/patent/9207729
http://patents.justia.com/patent/9207729
