Content preview from Deconstructing Product Design
Apple, 2000
- A minimalist descendent of the NeXTcube computer, the G4 Cube followed the colorful line of iMac computers in heralding the return of Steve Jobs and good design sensibilities to Apple. The computer was not only unique in terms of form and material, it was very small relative to its computing counterparts and featured a number of engineering and usability innovations. Steve Jobs comments: “This is a stunning product. Quite possibly the most beautiful product we have ever designed. The computer is in an eight-inch cube. It’s suspended in a stunning crystal clear enclosure … Amazing cooling system through a center channel that cools the whole thing with air so that it runs in virtual silence and … allows you to ...
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