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PowerMac G5 Picture Gallery

Posted by pudge on Friday September 5, 2003 @09:51AM from the drool dept.

NivenHuH writes "Bill Noll, an independent photographer, took some interesting pictures of his new PowerMac G5. Talk about Mac Zealot!"

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Almost too good by Oculus+Habent · 2003-09-05 10:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.

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Most things look bad on extreme closeups.... by haut · 2003-09-05 13:06 · Score: 3, Interesting

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.
Reason for the beauty? by 00_NOP · 2003-09-05 22:16 · Score: 3, Interesting

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?