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You should pay less for that awful constrictive design. Apple's product history is littered with failures due to design-led development. G4 cube, round mouse, tube-shaped Trashintosh. Any time the object is based on a standard shape like a circle, cube, or tube you know it will fail. I'm surprised Ive hasn't done a globe yet.

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Don't forget the mouse that can only be charged when it's flipped upside down.

and you can only right click when you lift up your other finger

Well, there was the iLamp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4). Terrible for expansion, but I do like the aesthetic of this one.

>Apple's product history is littered with failures due to design-led development

Also littered with huge successes.

I definitely agree with some of these points—like the round mouse and the G4 cube—but it's kind of hard to take a comment seriously when it includes the word "trashintosh".

The iMac G4 could be described as half of a globe.

Yeah, good point. I don't think it was a particularly good design. I read somewhere that the philosophy was 'not to do the obvious thing and put the guts of the computer behind a large screen' - which is what they eventually did with the next iMac.

This desire 'not to do the obvious thing' is also behind the Trashintosh. And it's also why I'm worried about the future Mac Pro. The obvious thing would be to revive the cheesegrater case, but Ive and co feel they have to do something 'radical' to justify their salary.

They also argued that the optical drive could not be oriented vertically.

I actually really liked how easy it was to reposition the screen frequently, so that I changed my seating position more often.

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