Found footage: 20th Anniversary Mac intro video

Having thought about it...

It really doesn't have anywhere close to the sheer presence and style of a NeXT Cube with the mono monitor.

I totally agree on the fact that the 3D is embarassing. I bought a TAM in 1997 for one third of the original price and though the sound was really great there were a lot of issues, the base-unit buzzed, the fans where always noisy, the cd-rom was very slow as was the entire machine, early generation PowerPC.

I myself did some 3D animation on the side, and when I saw what they presented I couldn't believe my eyes, really simple uninspired modeling, tacky backgrounds and horrible music!

I was produced in the final days of Gil Amelio who never was a visioneer design wise unfortunately.

I still loved my TAM for it's LCD screen and super sound, I used it mainly as a CD/MP3 player with SoundJam (later bought by Apple an converted into iTunes.

Those graphics are just embarrassing. I hope those were rendered on-the-fly in a Quicktime track. If they were just pre-rendered, they really should have had Pixar do one that looked reasonable.

"Check out the fancy CG graphics, self-important narration and the glinting TAM itself."

You forgot to mention that the voice sounds like a Leonard Nemoy wannabe.

Self-important? Yes.

Wrong? No.

The video boasts that it's a design for the future. Well, I'm sitting infront of a 24" iMac. I can't really deny that this is a pure extrapolation of the design concepts the TAM embodied.

The extra 'tower' is just a Subwoofer after all, to balance the BOSE engineered HIFI setup.

That said, if Steve had been there at the time, the video wouldn't have been narrated by a guy who's voice makes you want to punch him in the balls.