While the specs at the time were cool, the uglyest thing with an apple logo IMCO, is the 20th anniv. speacial edition, and the price, $10,000 if mem. serves.
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.
Agreed! 7th grade library time was spent on those beasts.
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.
Hah. I must completely agree with you on that... So glad they aren't making them like that anymore. Now of course they WERE in fact very durable, but thats about all they had going for 'em. I'd like to see (if not already done) one photoshopped onto a toilet.
I have to second the PowerMac 4400. Ugliest. Mac. Ever. The 7100 gets dishonorable mention.
The Macintosh Portable was a pretty dubious looking thing, too.
Really, the great offense of most late-80's to mid-90's Macs is sheer blandness. The Mac II? Sure, it sold well, and the IIfx was a real powerhouse. But... meh. The 840av? A super-hot machine. But... meh. And so forth.
Even though I loved my 8600, and even though it was about as good-looking as the beige Macs got, I'll take any kind of iMac over its square beige tower esthetically.
The worst design post-iMac was the last iteration of the G3 iBook, with that spartan, squared-off shell in matte white plastic. That only looked good next to PC notebooks.
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.
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seriously, i don't understand that thread either.
guys open your eyes and take computer design (inc. apple) as it was and is: evolution to something better. Step by step. And don't isolate certain pieces in order to compare it with actual aestetical standards. Evolution is the keyword here.
Well, stop blaming apple for bad industrial design. This is simply pathetic. Yes it is
Typically the solution is so understated with Apple, the nature of the solution completely belies the complexity of the problem it is actually solving....wait, I didnt say that, Jonathan Ives did.
The Key Lime clamshell iBook. What the hell was Apple thinking? Not only did it look like a toilet seat, but it could be seen from the surface of the moon! *shudder*
I didn't have much of a problem with the Flower Power iMac. It was cool for the very small niche market that it served. I actually wanted a Blue Dalmation iMac for a while there. There was just something about it that I REALLY liked.
Actually, I think exactly the opposite. To me, it looks like "all work and no play".
The marketers wanted something that looked like a serious machine, to counter Apple?s image as just a ?fun computer? company. I think that they achieved that with the G5, inside and out, but the design does not excite me. On the other hand, I liked the FlowerPower iMac. But I guess that I am part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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but the uglyest macs are better than this:
http://home.c2i.net/jcg/cp5726-filer/image001.jpg
Originally posted by Luca
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.
Agreed! 7th grade library time was spent on those beasts.
Originally posted by LoCash
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.
Hah. I must completely agree with you on that... So glad they aren't making them like that anymore. Now of course they WERE in fact very durable, but thats about all they had going for 'em. I'd like to see (if not already done) one photoshopped onto a toilet.
As Ive said it best, "It's like the future yesterday...now what if George Jetson had a computer? That's the perfect way of capturing the problem."
The Macintosh Portable was a pretty dubious looking thing, too.
Really, the great offense of most late-80's to mid-90's Macs is sheer blandness. The Mac II? Sure, it sold well, and the IIfx was a real powerhouse. But... meh. The 840av? A super-hot machine. But... meh. And so forth.
Even though I loved my 8600, and even though it was about as good-looking as the beige Macs got, I'll take any kind of iMac over its square beige tower esthetically.
The worst design post-iMac was the last iteration of the G3 iBook, with that spartan, squared-off shell in matte white plastic. That only looked good next to PC notebooks.
Originally posted by Messiahtosh
Worst Macs
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Original Wooden Box Apple 1
A Mac is not an Apple, dummy.
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.
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seriously, i don't understand that thread either.
guys open your eyes and take computer design (inc. apple) as it was and is: evolution to something better. Step by step. And don't isolate certain pieces in order to compare it with actual aestetical standards. Evolution is the keyword here.
Well, stop blaming apple for bad industrial design. This is simply pathetic. Yes it is
Originally posted by ZO
FLOWER POWER iMAC
That was just HORRENDOUS
With regards to actual design, the LC II and such were just big plastic rectangles that were pretty damn ugly
AMEN!
I find the G5 to be pretty ugly
The G5 is all sex baby.
I didn't have much of a problem with the Flower Power iMac. It was cool for the very small niche market that it served. I actually wanted a Blue Dalmation iMac for a while there. There was just something about it that I REALLY liked.
Originally posted by msantti:
The G5 is all sex baby.
Then I guess you think this is too...
Seeing as they're kissing cousins and all...
Cheers,
C.
Originally posted by HOM
Apple's ugliest design? That's easy, Mac OS X.
Originally posted by msantti
The G5 is all sex baby.
Actually, I think exactly the opposite. To me, it looks like "all work and no play".
The marketers wanted something that looked like a serious machine, to counter Apple?s image as just a ?fun computer? company. I think that they achieved that with the G5, inside and out, but the design does not excite me. On the other hand, I liked the FlowerPower iMac. But I guess that I am part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Originally posted by HOM
Apple's ugliest design? That's easy, Mac OS X.
HERETIC!! *C'mon guys, let's teach this infidel a lesson!*
Originally posted by HOM
Apple's ugliest design? That's easy, Mac OS X.
well, by no stretch of my imagination i thought about that possibility. hm.
I thought Key Lime was a great color. It was hours of retina-burning fun.