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What do you define a Pro-Tower by....what do you think Apple's approach should be ?

  • Geek factor X ........ Thumb screws, modularity and ease of Access. Screw the curves.

    Votes: 22 29.3%
  • Contemporary American "Muscle Car". Not quite so Geek friendly but at least not ignoring the power u

    Votes: 35 46.7%
  • About what the Quicksilver's like: Kinda easy but an obvious compromise that borders on irritating.

    Votes: 15 20.0%
  • What's a Power User? I just want a bigger screen. A tower's better right?

    Votes: 3 4.0%

  • Total voters
    75
Originally posted by AlphaTech
Digidesign, listing spymac along with reliable sources is like calling hitler a nice guy, it just doesn't work.

you silly silly people,... can't you recognize sarcasm when you see it? :p
 
Originally posted by AlphaTech
How about having a system built on the same liquid metal tech as seen in Terminator 2??? :D... You can then make it into whatever shape you wanted. Anything from a tower to an ultra compact portable.

T2 couldn't change mass - over all size stays the same - just shape is altered. But that would still be very cool. You want 10 USB plugs, no problem. How about 4 monitor support. The fully customizable computer. Hell, you could wear it if you wanted, now that would be slick.

Only thing, is if it got angry at you, well, we know what happens then...

"The Apple Liquid G5 - Just don't piss it off!"
 
dukestreet, ROTFLMAO!!!

You better skip through the dell commercials while you have that on too...

Another cool feature could be true immersion video, like an arc of screens for you to look at. THAT would make UT sweet... you could just turn your head to see who was lining a shot up on you :D. It would also change computing forever (sort of like what Apple did in 1984 :D ).

Imagine having a computer that could give you a monacle while you are walking around in the mall, and let you see it's take on stuff... Of course, it would have to have a good AI (good from the Apple user point of view of course). I just wonder how would you upgrade it's parts??? Like adding memory, storage space and the like.
 
I've already thought over LC Computers.

EXTREMELY cool.

Upgrading could be done with an innoculation of nanites to reconfigure the default patterns of the thing's matrix. Nothing says you couldn't do it as an organ:eek: either.

Once tech gets to the LC computer stage things'll get kinda silly:

If you can do a self-configuring implanted computer with wireless everything and nanites do the configuring and upgrading the next step is obvious: Pocket-reality. Dump the device into a little null-space pocket and feed it a few hundred thousand gallons of raw material. I/O is accomplished through SCQUID implants the size of a grain of sand throughout the brain.No perceptible device and nearly infinite processing capability. Heat escapes into TimeSpace through a thin wall of energy and power is drawn from the stress of the T/S pocket.
 
Hey mischief.... sweeeeeet... when can I get one of those puppies????

Maybe we could even use some of those nanites to repair parts of us :D. That would be something else... slide me a message if you want to talk RPG sometime...
 
There can be only one........

The problem occurs when we get this stuff rampant in the general environment.

You can't stop a reproduction-based organism from reproducing......eventually it'd get out into the biosphere (mosquitos) and we'd really have to get it together in a hurry.

What do you do with a planet with SICKENINGLY high tech and effectively immortal creatures?

You start terraforming other worlds as fast as you can that's what.:D

There's a lot of tech being neatly kept under wraps that would make this possible. ("hop" drives and such)
 
Bah. No towers! I want it all in one peice like the iMacs! Hmmm... iMac G5... yesh. Mabye it can look like the original Mac 68k on the outside. With a LCD screen. That'd be cute. Or mabye even sell it in diffirent shapes and colors! A VW shaped green Mac... Kewl.

Just, I HOPE all the tower and monitor are all build in to eachother like iMac.
 
I'd love it if they could make a computer very similar to the cube again for their tower (maybe make it bigger like the NeXT cube)

I was SOOO going to buy a cube (I was just saving up money) and then they stopped making them!
 
Originally posted by Tenniru
Yah, make the G5 an all-in-one computer like iMac.

Absolutely


Not!

The G5 as the new top of the line Mac, HAS TO BE expandable, multiple drive bays, video cards, sound cards, etc. Some day when the G5 has had a good run, like the G4, you'll see it in the iMac, but not first.

No way:D
 
Aw, c'mon. Don't be so picky. Ah, one thing. The all-in-one Macs like the Power Mac 500s could be popped right open. And besides, you have to go throug driver installing and plugging in and calibrating takes forever. My sister's iMac G3 was up within an HOUR! Hour! Geez, dude. And why is the cube so cool? I mean, not many ports, external CD (Maaan,) And it MELTS! That's why Apple canceled them. If it didn't melt, it would still be in. Oh, one thing. The towers are ugly.
 
What if the new G5 was in the form of a large and thick Powerbook? That way, if you have high amounts of heat coming out there would be plenty of room for cooling and a Superdrive. Why not get a 17.4 inch LCD screen with a super high resolution? And why not make it a metallic chrome, as many have suggested for the upcoming Powerbook G4?

You can plug it in, or leave it unplugged with a limited battery.

It looks like this:
 

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Originally posted by King Cobra
What if the new G5 was in the form of a large and thick Powerbook? That way, if you have high amounts of heat coming out there would be plenty of room for cooling and a Superdrive. Why not get a 17.4 inch LCD screen with a super high resolution? And why not make it a metallic chrome, as many have suggested for the upcoming Powerbook G4?

You can plug it in, or leave it unplugged with a limited battery.

It looks like this:

i'm sorry but that would be sorta silly

if i buy a powermac i expect it to be a tower and only a tower

i want the freedom of choosing my own monitor(s)
 
What can I say? I have every line of computer products from Apple (an iMac, an iBook, a PowerMac) EXCEPT a Titanium. I'm obsessed!

So maybe that would be a nice design for a 2003 Powerbook G5. Who knows?
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In the time it takes to read this message, an Apple computer will already have performed 15 billion float-point operations more than a consumer PC.
 
Um........what?

Originally posted by Tenniru
And besides, you have to go throug driver installing and plugging in and calibrating takes forever. My sister's iMac G3 was up within an HOUR! Hour! Geez, dude. And why is the cube so cool? I mean, not many ports, external CD (Maaan,) And it MELTS! That's why Apple canceled them. If it didn't melt, it would still be in. Oh, one thing. The towers are ugly.

When have YOU ever worked on a Mac?

The average mac takes 10 minutes to get running from the time you get it in the room. Plug it together, turn it on. Done.

The cube had built in DVD-ROM. What the hell are you talking about "external CD" ? Are you drunk? Have you ever seen a Cube? Or is all of this just nonmac propoganda from some PC idiot in your Algebra2 class 3rd period?

MELTS? ????? That's complete hogwash. I've sold, worked on and run HUNDREDS of Cubes.:rolleyes:

The biggest issue with the Cube was it's flat top and touch-sensitive power button. Having a Touch sensetive switch would have worked fine IF it had been on the front.Having it on the top just made accidentally putting it to sleep nearly unavoidable. The switch was in the place most likely to be randomly touched.

Go look at xlr8yourmac for it's mod page. A dude fit a DUAL 500G4 card in one.

Melt............Sheez...........the Cube was killed because people would walk right past it. It was TOO visually low impact. People would come in several times and think that it was a Subwoofer and......like maybe the Tower was somewhere else.:p I actually had to argue with the occasional customer and pull it all appart as far as pulling the guts out to prove it was the CPU. The Cube failed from the poor placement of it's switch and it's lack of visual impact.
 
Originally posted by Tenniru
The towers are ugly.

By your standards maybe, but the Mac Towers totally blow the competition out the water in terms of design. Look at how every other computer manufacturer played catch-up when Mac started with none beige colors.

Until you can fit all possible options in a smaller space, towers will be around for a while, form follows function. If you don't like it, go get a laptop, your choice. Me, I want power, plain and simple.

I can't wait to see what they come up with when the new design is introduced.
 
I'm glad that mischief answered that one...

I don't like ever accusing anyone of speaking total s**t.......:p

I'm so inagreement with dukestreet... the new G5 Tower will be absolutely mind blowing!!!:D

Then the world can eat our dust!!!:D :D :D
 
cube power

The power switch/button was actually a proximity type. That is why people that passed things close enough to it would either turn the cube on, or get the startup/shutdown options window.
 
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