Filed under: Hardware, Cult of Mac, Apple
Apple form factor evolution
Donationware app MacTracker is great for those times when you need to look back at the history of Apple's products or the stats of one particular machine. If you're interested in more of a visual history, however, this picture from art director and designer Edwin Tofslie should satisfy your cravings for pretty pictures. Tofslie collected images from most of the major design revisions Apple has made to many of their most significant products, including the Mac, Newton, iPod, Xserve and iPhone, as well as their displays, mice and even the AirPort Extreme stations. It's an interesting look back over the evolution of Apple's industrial design that seems to include all the major landmarks.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jman said 6:37PM on 7-27-2007
Oh no! Looks like they are missing the first Apple lcd's! Otherwise, awesome!
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Dewey said 6:48PM on 7-27-2007
That is pretty neat. What I would really like to see is a complete family tree of apple products. Does anyone know if something like this already exists? Thanks.
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required said 7:28PM on 7-27-2007
they're missing a lot of displays like the 17" flatscreen CRT, all blue and blue/white LCDs. also missing the quicktake, laser printers, and a bunch of other stuff. neat though!
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ahothabeth said 9:28PM on 7-27-2007
No SE30?
No Quadra 950.
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Scott Falkner said 9:38PM on 7-27-2007
No Beige G3, no Apple }{ plus, no Quadra 600, no Intel Mac mini, no printers.
OTOH, an impressive list, and a good collection of images. Not perfect, but pretty damned well done.
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Jason Martin said 9:38PM on 7-27-2007
Only one glaringly obvious omission: Apple Pippin. One of the more obvious flops (although I thought it was cool) should certainly be there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin
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Audun said 7:01AM on 7-28-2007
I could not find the Macintosh I played with as a kid. But it was very similar to the Lisa.
I guess my father had a defect Lisa and some Mac-parts... He worked at Apple at the time.
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Ian said 11:57AM on 7-28-2007
Reminds me an awful lot of an app that newer tech put out in the mid to late 90's - GURU - Guide to User Ram Upgrades. Had every spec on every machine apple made up to that point (1997/1998) including the clones. Nifty app at the time. Nice to see something similar come about.
I wonder when pointcast will return ... in its original form.
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Scott Falkner said 2:36PM on 7-28-2007
>I could not find the Macintosh I played with as a kid. But it was very similar to the Lisa.
The Lisa was rebranded as the Macintosh XL, given 3.5"floppy drives and Mac ROMs.
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bxstrb said 8:57AM on 7-30-2007
no Apple Quicktake 200?
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James said 12:28PM on 7-30-2007
Great poster. But missing the IIcx and the Mac Plus. (along with a lot of displays, the first-ever laser printer, etc.)
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