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Eye guess eye could have looked into that before posting: iNewt

Nothing. What makes it popular is the apple mystic and excellent marketing...

If that was enough, we'd all be watching Apple TV's while jotting notes into our Newtons. Heck, Apple was one of the first Digital Camera manufacturers and had a video game console.

Apple's "mystic and excellent marketing" is clearly not enough to sell any old box. Really, you might want to look into why the iPhone is so popular. I'm sure Palm as we speak is adjusting the Treo line with the lessons learned from the iPhone.

Full disclosure: I'm a prior treo 600 owner. It has a much better keyboard than the iPhone, but for everything else I prefer Apple's little machine.

Hey, is that you? http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/objects/2007/Back.jpg

Sounds like an old TV ad...

DRM only hurts Apple, as illustrated by parent. It's always been obvious to me that Apple only implemented DRM into the iTMS because there wouldn't be an iTMS without it. It was a necessary evil. No DRM, no support from the record labels.

Apple has always had a good attitude about Music and fair use. Remember the Rip. Mix. Burn. campaign? It's your music. Burn it on a Mac.

Answer me this, when in the modern Mac era has apple ever showed it's computers being used by buisnessmen in ties...

Probably not modern enough, but there is http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/redlightrunner/crow dcontrol.mov and http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/Apple Movies/mov/serious_computer.html, not to mention all the Newton ads showing execs on the go. For a more current frame of reference, Apple has http://www.apple.com/macatwork/ on their web site.

I don't think you tried to hard at all.

Your Aquarium iHopper would be the perfect add-on accessory for the MacQuarium owner who wants a little something extra.

Brilliant!

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet. Microsoft Easyball Mouse

And if apple did it, it would look more like this than this.

Those glasses will never be cool without a major re-design. They're far too ugly.

I remember seeing in 99 or 2000 a picture of an Apple branded Palm handheld. Here is a write up of an Apple branded Palm called "MacMate". The URL www.macmate.com points to Apple's website. http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign /ApplePalm.html

Screw that ugly thing (although the modular idea is really, REALLY slick). Check this puppy out.

http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macproto/ beautyshotiphone.html

If Apple came out with a phone that beautiful and had decent service, I'd switch in a heartbeat. With Sprint going through it's merger with Nextel, my Sprint service has gone to complete 5#!+. Not to mention their selection of phones has gone into the crapper (they don't even offer a crackberry anymore!).

I think this is what happened when the PLAY button was pressed. http://www.theapplecollection.com/desktop/large_20 04/blue-screen-of-death.jpg

Finally! Years after Bandai bungled the project, Apple's Pippin is finally going to see the light of day!

http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macproto/ Pippin.html

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Apple sued, IIRC, emachines for selling PCs that they thought looked too much like the early iMacs... here we are. As it happens, I think it's a not unreasonable trademark/branding beef for Apple to have, but Apple can hardly whine when they're on the recieving end of IP lawsuits, given how happy they are to hand them out when it suits.

Not that will stop the hoards of RDF-weenies from claiming otherwise 8)

Damn. I've still got a stack of Intel Inside slug stickers ...

I guess I can't continue to stick them overtop all the Intel Inside plates I run across, so I need some creative ideas as to what I should do with them. Any ideas?

I guess it's time to get my tattoo removed...

I built my motherborad out of GINGERBREAD!

And the computer itself out of wheat bread.

Top that

Sooooo. I guess making an aquarium out of them is out of the question?

Wow, This Aztec is butt ugly, Love the headline.

Microsoft's public failures are always amusing.

to me, it sorta looks like a pippin.

reeallly .. not .. sure thats a good thing though .. and isn't this supposed to have PPC's in it? sooooper weird ..

I just wanted to be the first to say that MacOS X is officially the coolest OS on the planet. It kicks the butt of config-file-addicted Linux users. It sylishly out-secures FreeBSD puffers. It slices, it dices, it is fast and it is pretty. It will bring UNIX to Joe User in ways that Torvalds ... I'm sure doesn't care about -- but it's happening!

Those of you who have yet to "Switch(tm)" -- consider yourself warned! You have exactly five minutes to get on the cluetrain, or doom yourselves to be stragglers and catchup-playing wannabees until The Next Big Thing... which, judging by history, will be quite some time!

I, Anonymous Coward III, hereby proclaim that every UNIX geek worth his or her bits is soon to be running OS X at home!

While I agree with you that this is nonsense and should be thrown out of court, I think the cat naming convention has gone beyond code names (which are by definition, supposed to be more on the "under the radar" side). When you begin to market something with a particular name, it becomes, well, it's name (no "code" about it).

Regardless, Tiger Direct are being a BHR (butt head retailer).

That was the emachines eone. Compared to the iMac, it contained standard ports alongside the parallel ports, and built-in floppy (all of which were missing in the iMac), it was a lot faster and had twice as much memory.....and it cost hundreds less. No wonder Apple had to sue it out of existence.

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(Sorry, can't look for a link for Raul Fernandez's "Think Dirty" girl at work.)

This is exactly the same as when Intel unveiled the Aztec prototypes right after the introduction of the original iMac...

Note: It was a prototype at the time of the article.

• The important one: non-mac users who are flirting with the idea of switching. Maybe they use Macs at work or school, and a PC at home. Perhaps they have an iPod and iTunes, and enjoy the experience, and want iPhoto, iMovie, iEtc. I think this is the critical target group, because this is like training wheels for the switch to Mac. If they like the Mac experience, they may end up switching, or if they don't divorce the PC, at least they could become a long term Apple customer, possibly buying more Apple products in the future. For this group, processor speed isn't all that important. This computer is just to organize their photos, music, and "digital life". Since the price of entry is so low, it's hard for these folks to say no at this point.
• The other group: those who want a net-appliance. Anyone who may have bought a Cobalt Qube is probably eyeing the Mac mini right now. A set-top box, a home router/server, etc. It's good for little projects like that. Again, processor speed isn't as important as it would be in other applications.

Aha, I've found it: George Bush's Mac

Its a little tough finding, since searching for George Bush and Macintosh comes up with many spam pages and Macintosh users' Bush-bash blogs....although I did find a neat Bush Potato Head thing. Judging from that, the President would look cooler with a shaved head and a goatee.

Ever heard of a Macquarium?

this is what airplanes will look like later
apple advetisement middle seat

http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign /iNewt2.html

sorry about this but W uses a powerbook

As they say, of course it does. It all depends on how you define toaster.

http://theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign/poc ketprojector.html

ok, i've never heard of this, but the first google search came up with this page

We almost did have a standing pizzabox. The "boombox" concept for the original LC:
http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macproto/ 010.html
I could've sworn there was an integrated screen too, but given this was 15 years ago, LCD tech probably wasn't up to par for a sub $1000 color Mac.

It looks like the Mac users are one step ahead of the PC folks again. Check out this site. Mac Aquariums Yes folks why settle for XFish when you can have a real live world behind your screen. (Imagine putting a Keyboard in front of one and watching people trying to shutdown your "screensaver".

There are always the classics. Mine is a Mac SE model and has been working flawlessly since 1997.

The original, classic broken computer mod is probably still the best place to keep your purple octopus. Various references are available.

There's always the classic-Mac aquarium. See some at The Apple Collection

While origami where no cuts happen (is that the only form that's truly 'origami'? I'm not sure) is more impressive, you reminded me of this site with paper cut out models of Apple gear.

Scrolling down to some of the constructed models shows how cool they can look :)

The page is rather slashdotted right now, but I managed to get a glimpse. Looks like this thing is just in time for the Doom 3 mania, with more buttons than you can shake a boomstick at! Looks like quite the excellent Doom 3 controller to me, although an additional toggle joystick would help things more. And there's a Google cache right here. Finally, I also found this prototype design of what looks to be another model -- interesting stuff.

Apple has actually prototyped two phone systems in the past. One was in conjunction with Seimens and was a dock for the Newton.

The other was called The Paladin

The extra-large trackball. If you've ever seen one of these things, it's soccer-ball-sized!

No way. Windows users are bunch of sissys, wimps, and p*ssies. I mean, can Windows users stand the pain of tattoos? Where are the sites of tough nerds with Windows tattoos?

I'll bet you Windows peeps start crying like little French girls at the thought of needles.

The Apple Bandaï Pippin was Apple's attempt at a console. One from the 'What were they thinking?' file. More info here

get some nice, reasonably thick paper, print out, & fold

Really? Like 2 feet as in he's sitting in front of his PC? Oh, and it wasn't too long ago when laptops had 9-10" LCDs and people would read them all day long at 640x480 and 800x600.

I agree with the original poster: all the guy did was use a old Mac PC as a case for his PC. I have no clue why he even bothered with the Mac logo on his window, it's like putting a Camaro Z28 emblem on your Civic.

I'm not impressed and don't think this should have even been on /. There's far more impressive conversions you can do with a old Mac case IMHO.