Truelove Tech

Ok you think I'm joking, but just because the world & technology weren't ready for it 10 years ago doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it.

It's definitely time for a redesign, I bought my first PowerMac G5 before my daughter was born and it's her 8th birthday on Monday, that G5 looked identical to today's MacPro.
There's been speculation about the next MacPro being like a taller MacMini, sounds about right, all the IO can be handled by daisy-chained Thunderbolt & USB (maybe Firewire for legacy devices for the moment), No need for PCI slots. 

It will need some serious cooling for those 12-core and more CPUs, the Cube had a central tunnel designed to keep G4s cool by convection without any noisy fans, but noisy fans are a problem that Apple solved years ago by using large slow moving fans.
If you remove the need for gravity cooling you can make vertical/horizontal orientation a user preference. What if the cube/tower was aprox. 9.5ins high? You could put 2 side by side in a rack and cool them front to back like a Xserve, great for an Xsan setup or a render farm.

If I was designing the NewCube I would put 2 or 3 (hot-swappable) drives on the front a la Xserve, but that could just be the Techie in me who just doesn't get the new paradigm.

One of the biggest problems would be the MSM Pros sneering at the new NeXT/Apple cube, Steve's famous obsession/failure, but when has Apple every cared about what the status quo thinks?
How about something to announce at WWDC if the iPhone5 is going to be delayed by couple of months and the talk will be about Lion?

I should say that I know absolutely nothing about Apple's plans, but when's that stopped anyone speculating about their future?

MSP