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YoDave writes "Have a slick new iMac and a boring old desk? This BBC report may be music to your eyes. John Treby from the University of Hertfordshire has designed the iDesk. It has space age styling with space for all your Apple goodies and not much else. Rain Design of San Francisco is shipping a similar stand called the iGo. PC users can prepare to drool with envy, again."
I do to an extent. I am a PC Linux user and have been for a while, but I must admit to getting a bit fed up with grey boxes. Sure there's all those PC case modification bits around but all the neon in the world won't make your machine look as good as an iMac. I really like the latest design, especially the screen. I thought the previous iMac was alright but never considered it to be as groundbreaking as a lot of people made out. I think some of the G4 cubes are pretty hot too.
But these days when I look at a Mac, I'm seeing a stylish machine, with decent oomph (maybe not as much oomph as a 3GHz P4) - and the killer - a mature, stable UNIX-style operating system with a great graphical user interface.
That said, darned thing doesn't fit my budget. Until they come down in price a bit more I just can't justify the added expense. If they'd just release the MacOSX port for x86 I'd put it on my machine, but it seems this ain't going to happen, and we have the usual culprit, Microsoft, to blame IMO. If Apple released their x86 port, MS would discontinue Office for MacOSX in a flash, creating serious problems for their potential market. Until Apple create a decent office suite themselves (OpenOffice.org with a Cocoa interface, anyone?), they'll be pretty stuck.
But what will looks of your desk help when your back and neck is strained? I think that was by far the most non-ergonomical desks I have ever seen. I think I would throw them it out imediatly if my employer asked me to use one of thoose.
It is so many errors with the workspace that I don't even what to go into it.
Only one thing good was probably the iGo's built in lamp for night-work. But that is probably just about it.
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Why is it that almost all desks made specifically for computers have their legs exactly where I would like to put mine? I hate furniture that comes in my way when I try to use it. Why not just let the table have its legs far apart, with room for my legs in between?
The pictures on the iGo page are hilarious. Can you see the way the woman has to sit in order to use the computer? More than 5 minutes at a time in that position and my back breaks. The designers obviously never tries to actually use the furniture they make.
good point - there needs to be more room for *stuff*, while still encouraging tidiness..
I reckon it could do with:
* document-holder-clip-thing beside the monitor
* cd-storage-stack-thing
* a shelf for books + misc items
* another one of those mousepad platforms, it looks about right for an open book
my $0.02 anyway
Someone please mod it up. I agree entirely. At work, I have my monitor lifted up pretty high, because I'm convinced that the people that came up with the notion that you monitor should be lower than your eyes have never actually worked at a computer all day. Everything about that desk looks right. As for not having enough room for documents and things, nobody ever said that you can only have one desk. At work, I need a lot more than one dest to suit my needs.