Apple's ugliest designs
We all know the attention, beauty and design aethetics of Apple products. But that wasn't always the case. It has released some pretty hideous stuff in it's early days too.
What would you say is the ugliest desktop/laptop/peripheral from Apple?
I would submit the LC520/Performa all-in ones.
http://www.lowendmac.com/500/lc520.shtml
What would you say is the ugliest desktop/laptop/peripheral from Apple?
I would submit the LC520/Performa all-in ones.
http://www.lowendmac.com/500/lc520.shtml
Comments
I had an Apple ][GS before that but I'll never forget the day it showed up. It was an excellent computer that was in service for many years. I used it until we got our first iMac and then my sister used it until the iMac was passed down to her.
Unfortunately, the 575 was in the basement when we had a flood a few weeks ago and I don't think I'll be able to boot it again since it was in a few inches of water. I might try and salvage the HD but I'm not even sure about that.
Sorry iMac owners.... I gotta say this one. The arm is pretty cool, but I find the iMac fugly.
Originally posted by Fran441
I had an Apple ][GS before that but I'll never forget the day it showed up. It was an excellent computer that was in service for many years. I used it until we got our first iMac and then my sister used it until the iMac was passed down to her.
You went from an Apple II GS to an iMac! Was there anything in between??
Originally posted by ast3r3x
You can't look back and call something ugly really. That was good looking for it's time. That is how computers were back then. The plain fact it had SOME curves was pretty good.
Please explain the original toilet seat iBook to me then. In my opinion, the original ones never looked good. Not then, not now, not in the future.
Originally posted by ast3r3x
You can't look back and call something ugly really. That was good looking for it's time. That is how computers were back then. The plain fact it had SOME curves was pretty good.
I disagree. Sure, things were different back then with respect to technology, but design is design. I think most of us can agree that the original 128K Mac is not ugly. Neither was the neXT computer. Yet that technology was no different.
My disdain for the LC520 is simply based on it's forced design. No flow, but simply hard edges that reveal each of it's components.
I wish I had one now even.
My vote for ugliest Apple design is... The Flower Power iMac!
Now, that is ugly...
That was just HORRENDOUS
With regards to actual design, the LC II and such were just big plastic rectangles that were pretty damn ugly
It's like looking back at 80's clothing or ideas of flying from before the they discovered how and laughing. Yeah it's funny, and yeah 80's clothes are ugly, but that is how it was. At the time it wasn't bad. Do you think the Apple ][ would have been excepted as well if it looked like an iMac?
Pizza boxes rule! I'd love a G4 in a pizza box (or a cube!).
Flower-power iMacs - uh, no.
The original clamshell iBooks - ugh.
The mirror-door G4 PMs - a mishmash of elements that just didn't work.
The G5 PMs aren't "ugly" per se, but they are so PC-like I almost want to call them Anti-Macs.
C.
Best Macs
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Apple II
Macintosh
PowerBook (all)
iMac 1
Cube
iMac 2
PowerMac G3
PowerMac G4
PowerMac G5
iBook 1
iBook 2
Worst Macs
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Original Wooden Box Apple 1
Macintosh Portable
eMac
All those beige ones...
First of all, I love the cases for the IIci, IIsi, LC, and Quadra 630. They're all pretty simple, well proportioned, and durable. Another one I like is the PowerMac 8600/9600 case, which is really big and impressive.
On the other hand, I really, really dislike the cruddy metal cases used on the PowerMac 7100 and 4400. The 7100 used the same case as the IIvx and Quadra 650, and the PowerMac 4400 used a unique case design that was more like a DOS box than a Mac. Also, although the PowerMac 8100/8500 case is small and compact, it is also hell to work inside of it, so I don't really like that one either.
Personally I think the PowerMac G3 All-In-One was uglier than either the 500 series or the 5000 series Performas. None of them look very good, but the AIO takes the cake for ugliness as far as I'm concerned.
Originally posted by Luca
the PowerMac 4400 used a unique case design that was more like a DOS box than a Mac.
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Originally posted by rok
b.) the watermarked "G3" on the side, which probably mocks its owners even today.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
At the time of their release, I thought they were pretty cool. But looking back now, they are garish. Then again, I was 14. Such sophisticated tastes I had.