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These two points don't seem mutually exclusive. And it isn't the functional design that you've "copied" from Apple - the internal layout/design is quite different, after all - it's the aesthetics of the case and how you've been marketing it.The "dream" would be a barebones kit that had the enclosure, a custom-designed and integrated PSU at the bottom, and a custom board that had two mirrored PCI slots on opposing sides, such that graphics cards could flank both sides of the board. You could angle the cards inward (above the board), and create a triangle of sorts that would fit within the cylinder, with the open center acting as a channel in which air could be pulled through all the heatsinks and out the top of the case.Without going totally custom on the board, and probably the PSU, getting standard components in a Mac Pro-like enclosure will pretty much always require significant compromises (mITX board, one short GPU, etc).
These two points don't seem mutually exclusive. And it isn't the functional design that you've "copied" from Apple - the internal layout/design is quite different, after all - it's the aesthetics of the case and how you've been marketing it.
The "dream" would be a barebones kit that had the enclosure, a custom-designed and integrated PSU at the bottom, and a custom board that had two mirrored PCI slots on opposing sides, such that graphics cards could flank both sides of the board. You could angle the cards inward (above the board), and create a triangle of sorts that would fit within the cylinder, with the open center acting as a channel in which air could be pulled through all the heatsinks and out the top of the case.
Without going totally custom on the board, and probably the PSU, getting standard components in a Mac Pro-like enclosure will pretty much always require significant compromises (mITX board, one short GPU, etc).
