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My opinion is that you should do your own research.

This is probably in the wrong forum. You may want to try Unplugged or Circuit Board. [MA] General is for Clan MacAddict, the gaming group.

Jeez, thats a little harsh...

Is it really that hard to say, "why don't you try such-and-such a forum"

Black Stallion wrote:

Jeez, thats a little harsh...

Is it really that hard to say, "why don't you try such-and-such a forum"

Kev's done that. Therefore, good cop role filled, currently unnecessary.

People should read before they post. Wouldn't you agree?

I read an interview with him when the first bondi iMacs came out in '98, and he seemed like he was pretty smart. He said that when he designed it, he was goinig for something that would seem "familiar" - to appeal to people on an instinctual level, I guess. It worked - they sold a lot of them.

I certainly like some of Apple's designs, although I never much cared for the iMac G4/Pixar Lamp design - on the other hand, there's only so many ways to connect a LCD to a small computer and have it be useful, but I honestly think that the G5 format should have been used in the first place. I don't know which of Apple's products are really Ive's designs and which aren't, though I suppose he and Steve Jobs have to okay everything.

The G5 iMac along with most of Apple's current consumer offerings are a little too suqare for my tastes as well - something a bit swoopier from certain angles, like the Pismo/Lombard/Wallsttreet Powerbook G3s were, would be more to my liking. However, I certainly don't think they look bad, and the whole white/chrome thing on the 1G iPods was kind of neat - I'd like to see more of that, maybe with the iBooks - the metal could function as an extension of the heatsink?

I sitting next to a G5 in a computer lab, and I must say - these computers are quite possibly the sexiest minitowers I've ever seen, if a bit larger than I might like in my living room. The G3/G4 towers had a good design from a maintenance and upgradability standpoint - nice roomy cases, easy opening, but everything from the B&W G3s through to the MDD G4s reminded me of those Fisher Price toys I had as a kid.

so s/h/it wouldn't have to.

it's pretty pathetic to do a report on a designer and not even know how to write the specific name(s) of the product(s).

even more, to me, is to make your first post a plea for someone else to do your homework and research.

No talking about Ives!

jeff-o wrote:

Ok....  why did you want us to compare Ives to the Flaming Lips????

It's because they both have plushy fetishes.

One comparisons between that Ive's and Flaming Lips (that I can think of, off the top of my head, just before work *sigh*) is that seem to ooze post-modern cool.  Look at Ive's bubbly feel the Mac, which is sort of like the bubbliness of OSX.  Then there is the Flaming Lips, who enter their concerts in a big latex bubble, literally. 

Yeah, I'm stretching it.  But heck, its off to work for me. 

P.S. Go easy on the new guy, fellow MAFers.  Discouraging people from what could be a discussion on Macs is a little counterproductive in the MacAddict Forums, don't you think?

mediocresau wrote:

P.S. Go easy on the new guy, fellow MAFers.  Discouraging people from what could be a discussion on Macs is a little counterproductive in the MacAddict Forums, don't you think?

NO. THEY smurfing POSTED IN A smurfing GAME FORUM.  IT HAD TO BE MOVED. GET A CLUE.

He's hot.

iMac saved Apple.