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Could this be the new MacPro?

Looks like front ventilation is in the handle cutouts. 3 lightup Usb C on the front? Looks like we finally get a space gray color option too!
 

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Remember the story about how Apple "hid" the 7,1 "guts" in some sort of file cabinet looking boxes that they loaned to select companies for pre-release testing? That.
 
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Remember the story about how Apple "hid" the 7,1 "guts" in some sort of file cabinet looking boxes that they loaned to select companies for pre-release testing? That.

I'm thinking of another story - the one about the computer vendor run by Tim, Jony and Phil, which promised Pros they'd get a good computer, if only they'd carry them across the rising river of discontent.

So the Pros carried Tim, Jony & Phil on their backs, battling the raging torrent of discontent, until half way across they felt a sting! Staring in horror, they saw a terribly compromised, shiv-thin workstation sticking out of their backs.

"But why?!" they cried "Now the river of discontent will drown us all!"

Tim, Jony and Phil looked back into the Pro's eyes, and the last thing the Pros heard, as they slipped beneath the waves, was a trio of voices hissing "It's in our nature".
 
Remember the story about how Apple "hid" the 7,1 "guts" in some sort of file cabinet looking boxes that they loaned to select companies for pre-release testing? That.

You mean the 6,1 ( eventual Mac Pro 2013 ) , but probably no.

If the purpose of the case is just to hide it would be far more easier to slap a big old ugly , unbrushed, unpainted , unfinished aluminum box around them and distribute them. Just need something so that can meet marginal FCC EM emissions guidelines so not screwing up other equipment or people poking at the internals. But the primarily objective is to hide the system. It is not to get feedback on the evenness of the painting scheme. Space Grey doesn't fulfill any functional requirement at all.


The design makes little to no sense anyway. The first hurtle for this snapshot to get over is whether it is even a real object or just socket puppet fodder to generate clicks. ( quite likely the latter. )
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Could this be the new MacPro?

Probably not.

Looks like front ventilation is in the handle cutouts. 3 lightup Usb C on the front? Looks like we finally get a space gray color option too!

Yeah of a HP Z8

HP_Z8_Workstation_1920x500_tcm245_2512035_tcm245_2513023_tcm245-2512035.jpg

https://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns..._us/en/psg/ws_desktops/products/z8-learn-more


Rotate to a perspective view shoot 'down" onto that upper corner/handle and fuzz out the details of the ports and the HP logo and basically have this.


Is Apple trying to copy almost 100% of HP's design? Extremely likely not.

IMHO, if Apple was "borrowing" I'd expect the 'wider" elements of the Dell's 7000 ( a bit more squatter / thicker ) design. Not Cube shape but closer on that path with the older Mac Pro as a "starting point"; not anchored to old system but a start point. Apple has some radio issues to work out also. And will probably use alot less plastic.
 
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You mean the 6,1 ( eventual Mac Pro 2013 ) , but probably no.
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oh yeah what was I thinking? ... 6,1... 7,1.. to tell you the truth in all the apathy I lost track myself.. But being this is the $3000 Mac Pro, the LEAST powerful Pro workstation in the world, and would your budget clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
 
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Its most likely going to be a bunch or modular boxes like the mac mini that you can stack in various configurations.

Here's the right concept:

 
I'm thinking of another story - the one about the computer vendor run by Tim, Jony and Phil, which promised Pros they'd get a good computer, if only they'd carry them across the rising river of discontent.

So the Pros carried Tim, Jony & Phil on their backs, battling the raging torrent of discontent, until half way across they felt a sting! Staring in horror, they saw a terribly compromised, shiv-thin workstation sticking out of their backs.

"But why?!" they cried "Now the river of discontent will drown us all!"

Tim, Jony and Phil looked back into the Pro's eyes, and the last thing the Pros heard, as they slipped beneath the waves, was a trio of voices hissing "It's in our nature".

Loved this.
 
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