WARNING! LINK MAY BLIND YOU!!!!
This may cure any post-MWSF bitterness you may have towards Apple. I found this posted by 'iBrotha' at Mac Observer Forums.
<a href="http://developer.intel.com/technology/easeofuse/conceptpc.htm" target="_blank">http://developer.intel.com/technology/easeofuse/conceptpc.htm</a>
It's a bunch of PC concepts... I think <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> . Evidently they're trying to come up with stunning new designs.
They're stunning all right. One looks like the head of the monster from Alien. Another looks like a rectangularly headed lifeform took a shotgun blast to one of its eyes.
WARNING!!!! YOU MAY GO BLIND IF YOU GAZE UPON THE HORROR IN THIS LINK, BUT YOU'LL BE saved IF YOU REMEMBER THAT APPLE, DEAR SWEET BELOVED APPLE, WOULD NEVER INFLICT THE LINKED VISUAL CACAPHONY UPON THE COMPUTING PUBLIC. IN FACT, YOU MAY LOOK LIKE THIS :cool: (BLIND, BUT HAPPY) AFTERWARDS.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! GOOD LUCK STALWART APPLEINSIDERS!!!!!
Hoping the spots and images on my retinas go away.....
Aries 1B <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
<a href="http://developer.intel.com/technology/easeofuse/conceptpc.htm" target="_blank">http://developer.intel.com/technology/easeofuse/conceptpc.htm</a>
It's a bunch of PC concepts... I think <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> . Evidently they're trying to come up with stunning new designs.
They're stunning all right. One looks like the head of the monster from Alien. Another looks like a rectangularly headed lifeform took a shotgun blast to one of its eyes.
WARNING!!!! YOU MAY GO BLIND IF YOU GAZE UPON THE HORROR IN THIS LINK, BUT YOU'LL BE saved IF YOU REMEMBER THAT APPLE, DEAR SWEET BELOVED APPLE, WOULD NEVER INFLICT THE LINKED VISUAL CACAPHONY UPON THE COMPUTING PUBLIC. IN FACT, YOU MAY LOOK LIKE THIS :cool: (BLIND, BUT HAPPY) AFTERWARDS.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! GOOD LUCK STALWART APPLEINSIDERS!!!!!
Hoping the spots and images on my retinas go away.....
Aries 1B <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
Comments
Concept PC 2002 looks remarkably like the Apple Lisa. :eek:
Enchant looks like a bloated TV.
eXo looks like an xbox crossed with that funky G5 rendering from a few years ago.
Heh. The "G.R.A.N.N.Y." What a name.
[ 01-13-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]</p>
some look remarkably like macs, mac prototypes, or sketches i've seen people post on boards like these. (not surprisingly, none of the ones i liked were the ones created by hp or intel. go figure).
Pick up a copy of Appledesign to see the difference between concepts and eventual product.
I will never see again (I'm using viavoice to type this because I cannot find the keyboard!)
The worst was that oversized X-box. Somehow they managed to make it bigger & uglier then the X-box (just when you thought it could be any worst ... diproven again!)
<strong>They are just concepts being thrown around. Nothing more really.
Pick up a copy of Appledesign to see the difference between concepts and eventual product.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, the concepts in AppleDesign were nice enough looking that I'd buy them.
It is just SO GODDAMNED GOOD to own/be owned by Apple. My Windows machine at work (sob) just reinforces the 'Brazil' like corporate culture that I labor in day by day <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> , one step at a time <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> , twelve steps <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
oh, oh... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<strong>I like Bonsai.
Concept PC 2002 looks remarkably like the Apple Lisa. :eek:
[ 01-13-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Oh my Gawd, you mean the pc world has finally caught up to the Lisa?
:eek: Which is what, about 17-18 years old...
Just hate to see their "power user" initiative
I just can't get over how bad some of those designs are. Is anyone moderating those images or can anyone post their "great" ideas?
you get spoiled and think that elegant design and functionality all-in-one are easy to do...
but these things really make Apple seem way way way WAY exceptional
WHERE did they get these designers? seems like they just trolled the local video game depot or anime book shop, or the alley Behind the factory.
What's worst is that you can see them trying to assimilate Apples aesthetic and completly missing the point.
Some of these leave me ROTFL-ing!!!!!
I mean, look at "Fun-Kshun" -- heehee
or
Ikebana? oooh "innovative....Beautiful addition to any PC environment" ---lol
at least the 'Deep Forest' would have neen a really nice design about 3 or 4 years ago.
and that 2002 thing still looks like a Microwave Oven . . . as well as the Lisa
[ 01-17-2002: Message edited by: pfflam ]</p>
(Most of) Those were crap.
:eek:
man... those wacky intel people have no idea how to do industrial design.