Filed under: Apple Corporate, Odds and ends, iMac, Steve Jobs, Apple
Office Snapshots goes inside Apple's Cupertino offices
No, surely not. These pictures are also a bit out of date, we're told, as rumor has it that the front lobby always shows off the new products, not the old iMacs. So clearly these snaps are from the late '90s, when the rest of us were using beige boxes and OS 9 to compute, and only Apple employees had the luxury of using thin keyboards and horizontal LCDs gone vertical (madness!) in their super-futuristic office space. There: our worldview is back to normal. As normal as it gets, anyway.
Thanks, Steve!
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Pete Hopkins said 12:30PM on 2-05-2008
Sharp eyes will spot Merlin Mann's Web 1.0 conference poster in that picture.
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hallohallohola said 12:33PM on 2-05-2008
late '90s? Have you seen alle the pics? I see Mighty Mouses, current Display (ok, they're old, but not SO old...), iPod Hi-Fi, ...
Do I miss something?
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Ed said 12:51PM on 2-05-2008
Yes, the hint of sarcasm.
Scott said 12:54PM on 2-05-2008
The Mac Pro has two optical drives...that's recent
Fin said 12:40PM on 2-05-2008
There's Macbook Pros too!!
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StrangeBum said 1:10PM on 2-05-2008
I spy some, what appears to be anyway, granite countertops in that cafeteria. I work for a stone countertop company, so it's nice to see.
Also, I'd like to work in offices like that, it seems very nice, and comfortable. Quite unlike the offices I'm currently in. Blah. Oh, and did I spy someone not using an iPhone in one of those pics? I thought all employees got one for free.
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Alex said 4:26PM on 2-05-2008
Maybe it got bricked..? THAT would be ironic
Ahren said 1:37PM on 2-05-2008
yeah, I spy a mighty mouse, iMac G5's, a PowerMac G5, a couple MacBook Pros. I'd say that puts us squarely in 2005ish time.
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Kenneth said 1:57PM on 2-05-2008
Sub-woofer(??) next to the Mac Pro?
My Logitech Z-5500 subwoofer is not shielded.
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C said 2:13PM on 2-05-2008
That speaker & subwoofer setup is the Blue Sky 'Mediadesk' system. I have the exact same setup hooked up to my G5 tower. It's not going to harm his Mac Pro. It's very well-made and shielded.
George Lucas' crew uses Blue Sky stuff as well.
Chroma said 1:59PM on 2-05-2008
"despite the plentiful Apple products (and one notable Microsoft natural keyboard)"
No matter how much of a fanboy you are, you have to use what works best for you.
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sith33 said 2:12PM on 2-05-2008
I was down there for some meetings in January and I seem to recall that the front desk sign in the machines (the two iMacs at the front that you type your name into to get a badge) had been updated to the current-gen iMac with the slim keyboards.
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drew.blessing said 2:27PM on 2-05-2008
So I was all ready to hop on and comment about how fake these photos were, because I was just on the Apple campus a few weeks ago. I don't understand how someone would have gotten these pictures, since when I was there someone even reached for their camera bag and security was on them like a fat kid on cake! But, I will say that the pictures must be real because the front desk, and then cafeteria pictures look authentic. The courtyard picture is hard to tell because it's such a narrow shot. I can't speak about the offices though.
Pretty impressive! Wish I could have taken pictures when I was there, especially since Steve Jobs sat down next to us and had lunch. I was like a kid in a candy store, I couldn't believe I was that close to him, but couldn't take a stupid picture to prove it!
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drew.blessing said 2:38PM on 2-05-2008
Oh, also, they do have a bunch of the "Think Different" campaign posters plastered around the cafeteria. And funny enough, they also have several of the "large iPhone displays" set up (like the ones in the windows at the Apple stores). Seems like a great work environment down there. I hope I get my job!
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JS said 2:40PM on 2-05-2008
The musical keyboard appears to be a Korg Kontrol49, which was originally announced during the 2005 NAMM show.
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John said 4:48PM on 2-05-2008
Woah! look at the bottom left picture -- is that a prototype wireless keyboard sitting on the binders?
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HDNFLD said 5:55PM on 2-05-2008
In one pic the computer is running leopard (check the desktop background)
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Karl said 9:29PM on 2-05-2008
I spy a 12" PowerBook! Apple even knows it's the best!
And don't even start with the "MacBook Air fits the bill". We want power!
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