Found Footage: Beautiful Apple design

In the tradition of the "30 years of Apple in 2 minutes" video we recently featured, here's a well-photographed, albeit incomplete, look at some of Apple's best designs. It starts off with the "beige angles" of the Apple II, Lisa and Macintosh before progressing to the "dark portables" (Apple QuickTake and PowerCD) and "translucent colors" (eMate and G3 iMac).

It ends with "glass and aluminum," showing off the current-generation iMac, iPhone 4 and iPad. It's well shot and that ethereal music makes me feel like Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are going to pop up at any moment. Well done, Matt's Macintosh! You obviously love your machines, and we can't blame you.

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBZCcwZfClI

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u07ch

no quicksilver no mirror two of my favourite designs and both far better than the cheesegrater powermacs of today

July 27 2010 at 5:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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jimtastor

I still have my Quicksilver Mac...always love the design. Fully functional and with an Airport card, it still gets use as a guest computer.

July 27 2010 at 10:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kevin.weber

While the original G3 iBook "clamshell" may have been somewhat large, it is an absurdly tough laptop. Extremely resilient; only real weak spot is if something hits the Apple behind the LCD hard enough it will shatter the screen. But 10 years later mine still works great and is iconic of a time Apple was willing to "think different."

July 27 2010 at 3:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

The biggest failure was undoubtedly the "puck" mouse. That's probably the worst mouse ever invented. All who have ever tried to use it know what I'm speaking of.
But fortunately then came white plastic and glass/aluminium. Other PC manufacturers are still stuck with ... well you know with what.

July 27 2010 at 3:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lens

I can't believe they included the "bubble" Macbook. That was a horrifically bad design. How Apple ever decided that rounded lumpy corners that made the notebook about 50% larger than it had to be is beyond comprehension. It was a perfect example of Apple's "style police" overruling engineering sanity. Fortunately that design "innovation" had a short life.

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R94N

Yeah, that does look weird. But look at the competition at the time. No one else was doing this, whether it was right or wrong. Apple's designs certainly were eye-catching and different.

July 27 2010 at 2:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

pika2000

To be honest, I only see Apple's design being beautiful when they use aluminum. None of the transparent plastics.

July 27 2010 at 12:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Adam

Yeah, you could argue that glass and aluminum seems to be the style most in line with design disciplines, but even the translucent colored plastics and white plastics were way better looking than any of the other computers/electronics at that time. A colored iMac in 1998 versus the blocky 1995 Packard Bell our family had then was a world of difference in design.

July 27 2010 at 1:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

R94N

I like the coloured plastics. True, the aluminium is a lot stronger and looks more modern, but the different colour iMacs looked really great then and they still do today, in my opinion.

July 27 2010 at 2:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tony collins

"It ends with "glass and aluminum," showing off the current-generation iMac, iPhone 4 and iPad."

its last gen imac(24inch)

July 26 2010 at 11:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dani Reader

I think it might be referring to a generation of design, considering the latest iteration follows the design of the former.

July 26 2010 at 11:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shifty Wainright

focus
Focus!
F O C U S !

July 26 2010 at 10:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave