Not my favorite PSU format, and as you say, the location of it, and the system on the floor = vacuum cleaner.
Were you ever able to mitigate it with anything such as different feet or a foam sheet that's available?
Not my favorite PSU format, and as you say, the location of it, and the system on the floor = vacuum cleaner.
Clean layout of the internals though.
I did end up suspending them from the ceiling for a few other reasons tho. Bouncy floor, vacuum thing, and needed desk space. That was at my office tho which I no longer have. Now there are six of those on the floor with a stretch of plywood on top all being used as a shelf for my microscope collection. 
It is... even if the LCD display is over the top.
What more vendors should strive to do. Unfortunately, not likely.Yup! DELL has a really nice layout besides the PSU. And perfectly silent too.
That's one way to get creative for finding/utilizing available space.Nah, others may care about noise but I don't mind at all - just crank the tunes and it all goes away.
I thought everyone did stuff like that.Now there are six of those on the floor with a stretch of plywood on top all being used as a shelf for my microscope collection.
More HD space, could squeeze another row in IMO.
As for everything else, its perfect.
More FW800 over eSATA tho, eSATA is the worst connection design i've ever, EVER come across, its buggered up a number of times.
No thank you!
PSU at the bottom? Why? :/
PSU at the top TYVM, seeing as its the hottest part of the whole computer
Four is plenty, but I wish they would concentrate them to the back instead of a near 50/50 split between front and back in terms of USB and FW ports. Having the same number of FW ports on the front as on the back seems kind of weird (who wants cable spaghetti on the front anyway?), and only 3 USB ports on the back is laughably weak, I mean any ol' consumer PC has 4-8 on the back and 2 on the front. Apple have this passive-aggressive relationship to cables, they pride themselves on offering some sort of cable-clutter-free universe, but then they put all the ports in really visible places (the side or the front rather than the back) and make white cables that can be seen from a mile away... no PC desk I've ever had looked as messy as any of my Mac desks...
At first I thought that was an old SGI workstation. Is the case really purple or is that just funky lighting? However let's not forget the yummy horizontal goodness of the Xserve. I mean, servers just sit bolted to a rack out of sight, yet Apple gave theirs the tasty brushed aluminum look anyway. A Mac Pro in the Xserve form factor would be pretty awesome I think, but of course they'll never do it.
Drool territory in their day.
I also have some fond memories of DEC's Alpha machines.I had 40 of the SGI NT Workstations in one classroom and 43 of the Intergraphs in another. I think the SGI model number was 540 IIRC and the Intergraphs were the Zx1 ViZual Workstations with the Intense3D Wildcat 4000 series display cards. Sweet stuff!
I think it was the SGIs that came with a TOTALLY KICK-ARSE virtual system tour all done in VRML that looked and interacted more like a top video game available in recent times. Those systems' responsiveness were far greater than the 2009 Mac Pro 2.93 GHz octads are today.
Those were good times! All pre-911.
Faster than anything available in a desktop that I ever had access to at the time, IIRC. They had some really talented designers in those days.
I also have some fond memories of DEC's Alpha machines.
It's a shame that DEC was swallowed up by Compaq, then by HP.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.Yep! My second render farm was based on Alphas. From 12 Amiga 4000s to 48 DEC Alpha 21164-LX 533s in my own kinda blade-like configuration. From there down to 24 DELL 410 precisions modded to dual 1GHz xeons and then from there to 12 DELL 650 Precisions @ dual 3.x GHz w/HT - of which I still have 6. But I barely do any CG work these days so they don't see much use. Besides, I'm playing with my mac now!
Something like this?
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Via CPU improvements though.Hehehe... But Macs ROCK!
For the render-farm revisions tho actually each time I doubled my speed and cut the number of machines in half at the same time. Nya-nya!
Intel did the work. How dare you parallel machines. And we'll lose it with interest since software will end up with exponential bloat.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Hehehe, yeah. While my rendering power doubled my frame rates stayed relatively the same. With more power I could turn on more and more realistic rending attributes. Better quality lighting, micro-bump mapped surfacing, etc. etc. so while I averaged 5 to 8 min. a frame back on the Amigas I still average 5 to 8 min. on Mac 8-core or the Precision 650 4-cores. The difference is that now the renders look like frigging photographs and back on the Amigas they looked a bit like Tron or something.
You two really should get a room! 
