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NivenHuH writes "Bill Noll, an independent photographer, took some interesting pictures of his new PowerMac G5. Talk about Mac Zealot!"
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Perhaps nobody told these people they could have a UnixWare license and half a year's support for the cost of that G5 machine. And UnixWare PC hardware is cheaper than Windows and Mac hardware both, since it only runs on older hardware.
All he did was paint it white and put the words "Click here to get the plugin" on the side.
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Excellent pictures.
While those photos are extremely impressive (the best of a Mac that I've seen), I must say that my attention was drawn to his friend's site referenced at the end of the photo tour:
"Yeah, I have friends that use "windows" too, even one that thinks he's funny. Check him out here: http://asherbond.com/a5.
Introducing the Powa Mack A5: "If beauty is skin deep, nobody told Bad Boy Asher Bond - The new Powa Mack A5 is stunningly gorgeous - both inside and out. I used a Twinklecam, Web Camera with a Fisher Price Flashlight, to capture the metallic textures and elegant curves of the worlds second 32-bit Bad Boy Asher Bond personal computer. Thank you for visiting - I hope you enjoy - Asher Bond"
Of the mac pics I likethis one the best.
In case you missed it, he also linked to a friend's spoof, pics of his generic wintel box.
Apple has done the amazing, once again: Somehow they made a geek toy sexy.
to accept the praise of personal wisdom is an affront to the very ideal i hold dear.
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I know that the fans are supposed to be "super silent", but I would have expected more from Apple. My Athlon XP 2000+ (Palamino, 67W), GeForce4 Ti4200, 3xRAID 7200rpm desktop is cooled by only 3 Panaflo L1a fans (24cfm, 1900rpm). There's a Zalman on the GPU, so no fan there, an Alpha 8045 with a Panaflo on the CPU, a modded PSU with a Panaflo L1a, and a Panaflo L1a case fan. Even with all the fans on full blast, it's quiet, and when I use my motherboards thermal control function, it's nearly silent (the HDDs, which are Samsung SpinPoint P40s - quiet, are quite a bit louder than the fans).
One might wonder why Apple, a company known for industrial design, didn't design a 0 fan or at least 1 fan chassis. Imagine a system where both processors, as well as the PSU, are cooled by a single fan. If anyone can do it, it's either Zalman or Apple.
First,
1: How quiet, exactly, is this 9 fan setup? Is it quieter than the HDDs? If anyone has a G5, could they respond.
2: How quiet is it under load? When you are playing a 3D game or rendering video, does it sound like a jet engine or does it remain quiet and civil.
3: Why exactly did Apple elect a 9-fan setup? Fans are likely the fist part to fail on the computer. Also, as fans age, they get noisier. Do the fans in the G5 stop when they aren't needed or do they continue at a low RPM?
When I saw the first few pictures, I thought it simply looked rendered. The light, the curves, the shading, even the capacitors on the video card look perfect.
That is some awesome photography.
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
As someone who like photography and technology, I have to say I like the pictures. A reviewer of the G5 put it best when he said that it had a "brutal austerity". I think these photos capture it beautifully.
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I found the spoof far more interesting/amusing than the main page..oh well, something for everyone i suppose.
I wonder if this newfangled Mac has a two button mouse?
..just don't, ah, Love your Mac.
I think he's a little too emotionally involved.
This is truly one of the most erotic things I have ever seen. If that Mac was a woman, these pictures would belong in Playboy.
To mac lovers like myself raw processing power does not matter. It is nice that again the mac is kicking ass compared to the average PC, but that isn't too important. The thing is that the mac allows you to get your work done without crashing every 30 seconds. Macs let you work without needing to know anything about the stuff underneath, which is something that both windows and linux have been lacking. And it looks sexy too. I think that the fact that mac users find their computers sexy telling, as they love their machines, which is something that most users simply do not do.
The key to Apple's design is to:
- lower the RPM of each fan,
- lower the air flow velocity,
- lower the total CFM required by all fans, and
- reduce the turbulence of the airflow.
A single fan design has the disadvantage of having to move enough air to cover the worst case configuration of internal components and thermal loading -- ensuring that some air gets to every nook and cranny. With 9 fans in 4 thermal zones, each zone of the G5 is regulated to minimize fan speed whilst maintaining acceptable temperatures. More fans for more fan cross-sectional area also reduces noise. A single fan design requires higher velocities on the blades and airflow and creates more turbulent airflow. Thus, for example, blowing 24 CFM though a single 120 mm fan makes more noise that blowing the same 24 CFM through an array of three 90 mm fans.
The front and back mesh covers act as a acoustic diffusers and help create laminar flow (which is less noisy than turbulent flow). Finally, the flow-through design creates a uniform convective flow over the components versus other designs with more convoluted airflows that create uneven flow or dead-air zones in the case.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
but the G5 looks amazing! Apple really did it right and didn't make it look cheap at all. Look at the top end Dell/Alienware/Gateway comptuers, they still look cheap. Amazing pictures and great link.
Just a bunch of photographs, but he can't resist requiring some proprietary plugin to get beyond the front page.
Sure, I'll take the G5 over Bad Boy Asher Bond's Pentium box in a heartbeat, but give me the parody site over the original's puffery and fetishizing any day.
what about some people's attachment to their cars? or to their clothes? some even get to attached to their stereos! it's not weird, it's normal! I pretty sure you feel the same way about something!
macs are the best designed computers there is! and i'm not the only one saying that just read all the articles!
As a friend of Mr. Noll, I feel I should mention that he also sells Macs through his company, Neoview.
http://www.neoview.com/
However, this is not really mass market retail. His clientele is fairly exclusive. (big name musicians and publishing)
What does it take to produce product photography like that available from http://www.apple.com/pr/products/? How do they achieve things like the perfect alignment between the PB12's keyboard and the PB17's?
Do manufacturers make these things so beautiful to cover for the essential failure of the computer revolution? Only a few years ago we were being told we could expect high economic growth for years to come on the back of the ICT revolution and the explosion in computing power and interconnectivity - nobody believes that now.
So a serious question is: do the manufacturers now strive to make these machines more beautiful to mnake us forget that they have failed us. Ok, as someone who has read Marx, maybe I should say, is this an attempt to get us to fetishise the commodity more to make up for our human failure to realise their potential in our service?
There is nothing wrong with liking something that is aesthetically pleasing.
It's when the staggering unbelievably flawed belief that something that "looks nice" is "better" than the alternatives that is the problem.
For example consider the following statements:
"My lunch is healthier than yours because it tastes better"
"My car is faster than yours because its red"
"My stereo is louder than yours because its Sony"
"My computer doesn't crash because it looks pretty"
Speaking of crashing, another irritation is the whiney Mac lusers who INSIST that their Mac "never crashes". These typically are the people who also claim to have "never rebooted" since installing OSX (and they obviously don't use software update). These claims are usually accompanied by some half assed comparison to some mythical "always crashing PC" (typically based on 386 machine circa 1995 with 4Mb RAM running Win95 original release (unpatched) that they "heard about")
Then there are the people who harp about security and about how their machine "cannot get hackers" "because it's a Mac".
I tell you what though - if you want a REAL laugh take a look at the "might-as-well-be-secret" Apple "technical" mailing lists, particularly the OSX server list (strangely none of these lists are indexed by Google...actually its funny that isnt it? You know the way that whenever you have a problem with Windows you just search google and you will get lots of links pointing to Microsoft's support site to their knowledgebase articles and newsgroups so you can usually find the answer pretty quickly? For some strange reason none of the Apple REALLY technical stuff is searchable on google. Now I wonder why that might be...)
A quick serach for "crash" on the server list results in 1733 documents. So, er.. how do you explain that Mac users? Unlike any other information it can't be lies as its ON STEVE JOBS' APPLE.COM SERVERS and seeing as they CANT BE HACKED then the information MUST BE TRUE!!!
Wait for the reply - "actually its 1730 results - those three had replied to the post without chancing the subject line while talking about how their machine never crashes".
>> "The thing is that the mac allows you to get your work done without crashing every 30 seconds"
> "Windows has been very stable since Win2000."
Hell yeah! Sobig.F gave you 60 seconds before machine restarted again.
I'd like this guy to do a repeat set of pics in 12 months when it's all full of dust, cat hairs, dead flies, crud, whatever... (Just before all the mesh holes get blocked up and it melts down). Although I do agree they're great pics, and I'd sure love a G5...
I use OS X and win 2k, neither crash. I installed 2k, I install all 2 million service packs and patches. I ghost an image, it crashes, it gets ghosted. At almost the same time, i removed OS X Panther, and re-installed 10.2.7 (panther did crash, but you cant judge a beta). I installed the several updates, (there were a good few, dont get me wrong), but i liked the fact that i only had to restart twice. My end point is, If Mac users complain about Windows crashing so much, they either havent used windows 2K (i wont mention XP, its shit), OR ELSE they have no clue on how to handle PCs. Having said that, id give a leg for a G5, and i firmly believe MAcs are superior. They let you work better, the OS doesnt get in your way.
I have had my mac for a year and a half and it has indeed crashed; once. The windows machine has required a hard reboot at least 200 times since I got it.
The windows box is exactly as it was sold by Compac, with the exeption of a firewire card.
with the same amount of ram, a faster HD, and a processor that's 2.5 times as fast, the WinBox is far slower at photoshop rendering.
It is well known that between equally specced Mac and PC's Macs are faster at Photoshop rendering, because Photoshop filters are optimized for the Mac.
If you have a Windows 2000 box that crashes during normal use with legit software then you have a problem.
The windows box is exactly as it was sold by Compac, with the exeption of a firewire card.
Try taking out the firewire card and patching it. If it's exactly as sold then it will not have MS03-026 anti-blaster patch and it wont have any updated anti virus signatures. You probably have a worm.
Your troll has failed, dipshit. Try again.
Check again. It was Jeff Goldblum, but perhaps he was pulling his best Nordine impression.
-- thinkyhead software and media
I don't know why, but somehow this troll brings a smile to my heart. You know, even though SimpleText is grinding to a halt as I write this, I always scan through the -1 comments of Mac stories on Slashdot, just to make sure it's there. I don't know if this troll post is always put up by the same dude or team of dudes, or if there just freelance 8th graders out there, shilling for not-Mac, but somehow, just knowing that there out there makes me feel secure.
You know, no matter how bad the economy gets, as long as these misinformed trolls are around, there's at least one guy that I can count on being self-evidently more qualified than.
Troll power!
Well, I should stop waxing nostalgic. After about twenty days or so my 17K file transfer is done. Sure, I could have done it in a quarter microsecond on my 8088, but I'm just a Mac zealot: speed, cost, and stability are irrelevant to me.
Macs may be good looking but keep in mind that they are just computers! The phrase "macs have so much sex appeal" really irritates me. I'm staring (happily) at a 23" Cinema HD display right now, but I wouldn't go as far as saying that Macs are "sexy" in the meaningful sense of the word.
In fact, I see much of the opposite happening. At my college, lots of kids have Macs. Many of them are perceived as kids who are overly self conscious about their computer buying - and this perception reduces their overall sex appeal.
Apples may look nice, but don't think that "warm fuzzy" feeling get to your head.
Note to all geeks: you have a better chance of getting laid if you buy yourself a worse computer and nicer clothes!
I have a blue iMac at work that is "exactly as sold" from Apple except for a bit of extra memory and OS X and it crashes every time it wakes up from sleep.
Don't post.
...wash the wank stains off. Seriously I often wonder if any Mac users understand the concept that it really REALLY doesn't matter what a machine looks like but rather there is this concept where the functionality of a computer is the most important thing? Mind you I suppose if you don't understand the first fucking thng about computers then the way it looks really IS the most important thing - kind of like buying a "fast looking" motorbike as opposed to getting one that really is fast. I really don't have a problem with the Mac, it's the fan club made out of fucking idiots I can't stand.
If you had the choice between a slightly faster computer that looked like a 3-year old child felching the guy from goatse, and a slightly slower computer that looked like a PowerMac G5, which would you choose?
;)
Thought so
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
Bozo. You dont think the PC world is any better, do you? My Antec with the front fans and the nice little filter in front gets clogged in 2 weeks time, and it still does'nt keep the fine crap out. Apple's solution is 10X times better. There's no chance it will ever overheat unlike all these Chieftec and Antec cases. When the front fan filter gets blocked on one of them, look out. And those are the BEST PC cases.
Anyone that does not take a can of compressed air to their machine every 3 or 4 months and blow all that shit outa there deserves what they get, which is usually a fried CPU.
The exact opposite is true from what you suggest. It's the PC cases that present a danger, not Apples.
actually its 1730 results - those three had replied to the post without chancing the subject line while talking about how their machine never crashes
I wonder if your 'mom' still has a set of balls
between 'her' legs?