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Is this It (Photo)?
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My theory:
I work in the prepress dept. of a printing company and we have a bunch of old IBM RS/6000 model E30's that look an awful lot like parts donors for this thing. The E30's have 5 or 6 (I'm at home right now and can't remember for sure) half height drive bays in front at the top of the tower and they have very similar looking slotted pop out covers. I think it would be very easy to Photoshop in a slot for the cd and stretch a panel or two and paste in the power button. The handles look a lot like the hand hold on the front cover of the E30 as well. The rest of the case from the bezel back looks quite a bit like the case from one of our Intergraph Rips so I'm leaning heavily toward this being a clever little Frankenstein Photoshop effort. Oh and ours has a mylar sticker with the serial number on it in about the same place as the blurred area at the bottom. If I wanted to do one of these I would also do it in grayscale, print it out, wrinkle it up, wipe my ass and half tone the scan. If I wasn't so lazy I'd do just that and I'm pretty sure it would look just like the picture. I guess I could be wrong but that thing just screams RS/6000 to me. I have a lot of faith in Apple to come up with something much better than this.
I should say that I haven't been able to see the full size version of the picture, I've only seen the reduced size one.
I work in the prepress dept. of a printing company and we have a bunch of old IBM RS/6000 model E30's that look an awful lot like parts donors for this thing. The E30's have 5 or 6 (I'm at home right now and can't remember for sure) half height drive bays in front at the top of the tower and they have very similar looking slotted pop out covers. I think it would be very easy to Photoshop in a slot for the cd and stretch a panel or two and paste in the power button. The handles look a lot like the hand hold on the front cover of the E30 as well. The rest of the case from the bezel back looks quite a bit like the case from one of our Intergraph Rips so I'm leaning heavily toward this being a clever little Frankenstein Photoshop effort. Oh and ours has a mylar sticker with the serial number on it in about the same place as the blurred area at the bottom. If I wanted to do one of these I would also do it in grayscale, print it out, wrinkle it up, wipe my ass and half tone the scan. If I wasn't so lazy I'd do just that and I'm pretty sure it would look just like the picture. I guess I could be wrong but that thing just screams RS/6000 to me. I have a lot of faith in Apple to come up with something much better than this.
I should say that I haven't been able to see the full size version of the picture, I've only seen the reduced size one.
Couple questions here:
If this is in fact the real deal, and it used a slot loading drive, can slot loading drives function on their side?
Next question; is it possible that this machine could be modular? So let's say that thing on the side that is blurred out is actually a port that allows 2 of these to be joined together like siamese twins. Is that remotely possible? Could hypertransport or the 64 bit aspect aide in this? Just a shot in the dark here...
Edit:
Got an interesting idea here... what if "dontask" is both a hoax and real at the same time? What if someone from Apple is playing a game?
Someone posted this mock-up on AppleInsider
as a joke... but what if they inadvertantly hit on something here? What if the person that sent us this pic played a little game and flipped the Apple logo around and messed up the image to hide it? Also altering key elements to disguise it.
What if the Grill and cd slot are actually the top of the unit? So it is a "cube" like design that doesn't need a fan for cooling. There might even be more drive bays on the true front of the unit.
This could also explain why supposed insiders are discounting that this is it, because it doesn't jibe with things that they have been told.
If this is in fact the real deal, and it used a slot loading drive, can slot loading drives function on their side?
Next question; is it possible that this machine could be modular? So let's say that thing on the side that is blurred out is actually a port that allows 2 of these to be joined together like siamese twins. Is that remotely possible? Could hypertransport or the 64 bit aspect aide in this? Just a shot in the dark here...
Edit:
Got an interesting idea here... what if "dontask" is both a hoax and real at the same time? What if someone from Apple is playing a game?
Someone posted this mock-up on AppleInsider
What if the Grill and cd slot are actually the top of the unit? So it is a "cube" like design that doesn't need a fan for cooling. There might even be more drive bays on the true front of the unit.
This could also explain why supposed insiders are discounting that this is it, because it doesn't jibe with things that they have been told.
...hehh...? Surely this rumor makes us all laugh? I would never believe that after all these years with Steve and Ive someone actually bothers discussing this "miss from the bin".
Sorry. Meaning I´m not going to laugh until monday.
you have to open the front cover
Sorry, I should have made it more clear that I was talking about its appearance with the front cover open. Also the version you found is newer than the one we have at work. The older version has the narrow verticle grill like in the purported apple machine.
Here's a picture I found on ebay of an E20, still the newer case style on the bottom but you can see the half height drive covers behind the open door I was talking about.
Sorry, I should have made it more clear that I was talking about its appearance with the front cover open. Also the version you found is newer than the one we have at work. The older version has the narrow verticle grill like in the purported apple machine.
Here's a picture I found on ebay of an E20, still the newer case style on the bottom but you can see the half height drive covers behind the open door I was talking about.
That is ugly. I hope the new PM's look nothing like that. I actually hope they make the machines smaller, somehow. It would be tops if they could cut 6 inches off it's height, and make it appear smaller overall.
He's baaaaaaAAcckkkk.... http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/infinite/
Originally found here... AppleInsider
Originally found here... AppleInsider
looks like that might be itOriginally posted by iSegway
He's baaaaaaAAcckkkk.... http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/infinite/
Originally found here... AppleInsider
i haven't read any of the comments so pardon me if i am being redundant.
That is a picture of a paper bag. with gray lines on it.
That is a picture of a paper bag. with gray lines on it.
This is the G5. it looks scary
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26406&perpage=40&pagenumber=2
at the bottom of the page. this one simply cannot have been photoshop´ed.
the design looks scary. almost like an evil robot or something
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26406&perpage=40&pagenumber=2
at the bottom of the page. this one simply cannot have been photoshop´ed.
the design looks scary. almost like an evil robot or something
Re: How come I haven't seen this one yet?
is that a mac ashtray?
Originally posted by mproud
macsecrets.com posted this, actually from a post on macdailynews.com, a few days ago. But I haven't seen this one yet in the forums here.
Is this one also a phony?
is that a mac ashtray?
Re: Re: How come I haven't seen this one yet?
Nah it's a multi use kitchen appliance. It's slices it dices, it measure spaghetti, it also strains and in a pinch you grate cheese and press garlic on in one handy dandy appliance. Don't go away folks because you haven't heard it all yet. It will also grill your meat and because of the specially designed by Nasa grill top all the fat and grease simply drains away. How much do you ask? Well today only we're slashing the price one million no way a hundred grand get real no no no this hand dandy device can be your for only 1000 payments of 4.99 that's right only 4.99 a day can get you this all in one kitchen appliance. Yes that's right for less then the price of a deal meal and a soda you can have this. You did say you wanted to go on a diet anyway didn't you..........................
Nah it's a multi use kitchen appliance. It's slices it dices, it measure spaghetti, it also strains and in a pinch you grate cheese and press garlic on in one handy dandy appliance. Don't go away folks because you haven't heard it all yet. It will also grill your meat and because of the specially designed by Nasa grill top all the fat and grease simply drains away. How much do you ask? Well today only we're slashing the price one million no way a hundred grand get real no no no this hand dandy device can be your for only 1000 payments of 4.99 that's right only 4.99 a day can get you this all in one kitchen appliance. Yes that's right for less then the price of a deal meal and a soda you can have this. You did say you wanted to go on a diet anyway didn't you..........................
Re: How come I haven't seen this one yet?
I've seen that before on an Apple mockup site - so it was never intended as being "phony", it was purely for fun anyway. Someone must have seen it and made it sound more official.
So yes, it's not real.
Originally posted by mproud
macsecrets.com posted this, actually from a post on macdailynews.com, a few days ago. But I haven't seen this one yet in the forums here.
Is this one also a phony?
I've seen that before on an Apple mockup site - so it was never intended as being "phony", it was purely for fun anyway. Someone must have seen it and made it sound more official.
So yes, it's not real.