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New Mac Pro Safe to Operate Horizontally
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How many horizontally mounted Mac Pros with maximum rpm to provide enough thrust to move a table on wheels?
Plenty of room for this in the music industry as well. There are plenty of old mac pros in road cases powering concerts. Space is always at a premium while touring. I can see the nMP rack mounts being very popular.
This would save a lot of space in a rack, especially if you need to mount two or three. I definitely see Sonnet coming out with an enclosure that will secure the Mac Pro in a rack mountable chasis with ports easily accessed from the front and back. A dual Mac Pro chasis would really save space.
Roly-poly Mac-Pro!
Upright it's a door-stop, on its side its a Land-mine
could even be seen as a toilet-roll holder!
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I think i'll stick with my updated G4...!
Upright it's a door-stop, on its side its a Land-mine
could even be seen as a toilet-roll holder!----------
I think i'll stick with my updated G4...!
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And to think that in 20-30 years (or less!) people will be amazed at how big these things were...
OWC should come out with a cradle for the Mac Pro that mounts underneath the desk. Similar to the ones they have available for the Mac mini.
Or a modified paper towel holder might do the trick.
Or a modified paper towel holder might do the trick.
There's a project on Kickstarter that might assist with this (I'm not affiliated, just saw it and thought it looked interesting!)
http://modemount.com
http://modemount.com
I think a shelf, made of machined metal and shaped like a wine display - with a series of vents placed strategically throughout would be awesome for a multi-Mac Pro set up. Picture a "Connect 4" like panel on either side and then a thin, flat piece of metal swinging gracefully between layers, offering support in the middle. And throughout the whole thing circulation is being aided and optimized by the subtle ventillation system I mentioned earlier. It would be beautiful!
Mac Pros in space...!?
Since they obviously don't need convection as a significant contribution to cooling airflow, Mac Pros could conceivably be used in a micro-gravity environment (like perhaps the ISS?). I don't have any idea what kind (if any) of workstation class systems they use, but a COTS solution is always a nice alternative to have.
Since they obviously don't need convection as a significant contribution to cooling airflow, Mac Pros could conceivably be used in a micro-gravity environment (like perhaps the ISS?). I don't have any idea what kind (if any) of workstation class systems they use, but a COTS solution is always a nice alternative to have.
Leave it to apple to make our imaginations run wild. I really like the beehive idea! That would be an epically badass setup.
Do you go through a lot of hard drives having them bounce around while rolling the cart over rough areas?
That's kind of strange to do without special racks, though.
Rolling would definitely be a problem on most surfaces. A carpet floor would be fine, but this computer was designed to be used vertically...
You had the first comment, yet you couldn't say something like "That's the way we roll"? I am disappointed that I couldn't inject something cheesy into the first page of the thread
.Wow, here's a great idea, put the contents of the Mac Pro into a 1U rack case, to fit perfectly into these carts and other racks. Oh wait... Have I seen this before?
You had the first comment, yet you couldn't say something like "That's the way we roll"? I am disappointed that I couldn't inject something cheesy into the first page of the thread
"That's the way we roll"
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It's too bad, recently I made myself stop being "punny." If something like this came out a few weeks earlier you might have seen a comment just like the one you suggested