texanpenguin
Registered Penguin
After a few sketches, and about three hours in Photoshop, I've made my image of what the new PowerMac (for release with the PPC970 chip) might look like.
There has been a lot of talk about whether it will be called the 'G5' or what, but I've chosen to call it the PowerMacX, highly showing off integration with the Operating System, and a little bit influenced by the Xserve.
The main features I've shown are:
- Brushed Metal, two-tone case, probably with a similar fold-down motherboard side as in the current PowerMacs (not shown). Design and shape losely based on the Xserve.
- Aqua objects ontop of the Brushed Metal box - such as the glowing Apple logo and the glow around the Optical drives.
- Apple-logo power button that glows when turned on.
- Easy to access vital ports; Headphones, FireWire, USB, AirPort Extreme/Infrared transmitter-receiver.
- iPod-like screen on the front, registering output from the Operating System and the case itself. It shows the version of the OS in operation, the Long Name of the user operating the computer, the RAM amount, the clock speed, temperatures inside the case, system use, etc, etc. Changing between these is made simple by a button beneath the screen which cycles through screen layouts defined in the SystemPrefs inside the OS. The screen should show a black-and-green version of the boot screen if possible, purely for the novelty value. It would have to be in frequent communication with programs like iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and QuickTime, showing real-time information on what that program is running, such as track information and elapsed/remaining time for iTunes, or the filename of the Photo being shown in iPhoto, etc. Shown, the left and right channel output, calculated preferrably outside iTunes, such that any sound would be visible on the Spectrograph.
Tell me what you think!
Well, without further ado:
http://kitwins.netfirms.com/PowerMacX.png
There has been a lot of talk about whether it will be called the 'G5' or what, but I've chosen to call it the PowerMacX, highly showing off integration with the Operating System, and a little bit influenced by the Xserve.
The main features I've shown are:
- Brushed Metal, two-tone case, probably with a similar fold-down motherboard side as in the current PowerMacs (not shown). Design and shape losely based on the Xserve.
- Aqua objects ontop of the Brushed Metal box - such as the glowing Apple logo and the glow around the Optical drives.
- Apple-logo power button that glows when turned on.
- Easy to access vital ports; Headphones, FireWire, USB, AirPort Extreme/Infrared transmitter-receiver.
- iPod-like screen on the front, registering output from the Operating System and the case itself. It shows the version of the OS in operation, the Long Name of the user operating the computer, the RAM amount, the clock speed, temperatures inside the case, system use, etc, etc. Changing between these is made simple by a button beneath the screen which cycles through screen layouts defined in the SystemPrefs inside the OS. The screen should show a black-and-green version of the boot screen if possible, purely for the novelty value. It would have to be in frequent communication with programs like iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and QuickTime, showing real-time information on what that program is running, such as track information and elapsed/remaining time for iTunes, or the filename of the Photo being shown in iPhoto, etc. Shown, the left and right channel output, calculated preferrably outside iTunes, such that any sound would be visible on the Spectrograph.
Tell me what you think!
Well, without further ado:
http://kitwins.netfirms.com/PowerMacX.png