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What is this on Job's desk?

rawweb

rawweb

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In this PPC era photo taken at Steve Jobs home office, he has a small G5 looking object sitting on his desk behind the Apple Cinema Display. What on earth is it? I would love to think it was some kinda cool prototype, but it's probably just some kind of hard drive?

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It's the ultra-secret Mac Mini G5 of course, it has four prototype IBM NanoG5 processors running at 2x4.0 GHz each (these chips were so revolutionary that the machine needed no fans at all) and was destined to be the future of the Mac until Intel rushed through a deal of their own and rest is history...

;)

In all seriousness, I think it's some kind of model as the back looks too detailed with all the ports etc for it to be a hard drive enclosure, and there are no cables coming from it.
 
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647156 said:
It's the ultra-secret Mac Mini G5 of course, it has four prototype IBM NanoG5 processors running at 2x4.0 GHz each (these chips were so revolutionary that the machine needed no fans at all) and was destined to be the future of the Mac until Intel rushed through a deal of their own and rest is history...

;)

In all seriousness, I think it's some kind of model as the back looks too detailed with all the ports etc for it to be a hard drive enclosure, and there are no cables coming from it.
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I thought that too, whatever it is, pretty cool!
 
I agree that it looks like some sort of engineering scaled model/mockup/prototype of a G5.

I have some MacAlly HDD enclosures that borrow the "design language" of the G5/Mac Pro, but they actually look nothing like a miniature G5. They just look nice sitting next to one since they have the same overall shape and the cheese grater front.
 
647156 said:
It's the ultra-secret Mac Mini G5 of course, it has four prototype IBM NanoG5 processors running at 2x4.0 GHz each (these chips were so revolutionary that the machine needed no fans at all) and was destined to be the future of the Mac until Intel rushed through a deal of their own and rest is history...

;)

In all seriousness, I think it's some kind of model as the back looks too detailed with all the ports etc for it to be a hard drive enclosure, and there are no cables coming from it.
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A prototype Mac Pro 6,1 ;)
 
Huu, that picture of Steve Jobs' office is just great!
The same clutter like in my office/room at home.
From now on, every time I'll enter I'm gonna feel the strike of genius ...
 
probably y a g5 miniature scale
[doublepost=1460493212][/doublepost]if you zooming you actually see the fans pie area and place for power chord far too small for the actual cord
 
647156 said:
It's the ultra-secret Mac Mini G5 of course, it has four prototype IBM NanoG5 processors running at 2x4.0 GHz each (these chips were so revolutionary that the machine needed no fans at all) and was destined to be the future of the Mac until Intel rushed through a deal of their own and rest is history...

;)

In all seriousness, I think it's some kind of model as the back looks too detailed with all the ports etc for it to be a hard drive enclosure, and there are no cables coming from it.
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Wikipedia has a photo comparing the backs. It has two fans, and the slots are in the top half of the case, so it's definitely more Powermac than Mac Pro. Besides, the photo predates the Mac Pro by more than a year.
 
jerwin said:
Wikipedia has a photo comparing the backs. It has two fans, and the slots are in the top half of the case, so it's definitely more Powermac than Mac Pro. Besides, the photo predates the Mac Pro by more than a year.
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Yeah, the two fans and bottom-mounted power cord are tell tales of a G5.

You can also tell that it's not a late '05 G5 by the port arrangement and lack of the WiFi antenna on the side of the back.
 
Apparently im a bit late to the party but that does look simply like a mini G5 model. Perhaps Jobs took up making models as a hobby? (You never know....)
 
I would like to know what all those little bottles in the bookshelf behind Steve are. (Left side, 2nd shelf down).
 
Indeed Genelec speakers. Genelec makes studio speakers, so that just shows how much Steve cared about audio quality.
 
666sheep said:
If this pic is from 2004, these are most likely some medications used in cancer treatment.
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Although that is a possibility, I believe that they are some sort of skin oil, or a liquid substance, based upon the fact that there's a eye-dropper-like thing on the cap of each bottle.
 
Unless it is cannabis oil, which is used to treat or at least make cancer more bearable. That comes in dripper bottles, and I'm pretty sure it would be legal in Cali.
 
Daniël Oosterhuis said:
Indeed Genelec speakers. Genelec makes studio speakers, so that just shows how much Steve cared about audio quality.
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And is that a Sony VX2000 on the floor in front of the bookshelf? Apparently, he was also cared about video.
 
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