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Yes, and lots of very smart designers have put lots of time over many decades into making trashcans look good.

The apple trashcan certainly looks vastly better than other commercially available workstations.

It's a shame really, I feel like we've lost something from the years of SGI workstations that looked like they came straight from the future.

The old SGI joke I liked was any system that required less than 4 people to carry was considered a desktop. The future must have very large desks for their users.

Well I can remember when fitting a new dual floppy drive (8 inch) to a pdp11 require two people to install it and a third to help run the cables through the chassis.

You mean bright LED's and transformer-like mods?

I don't think so, seems like ALL gaming PC's are like that.

SGI workstations had hardly any lights. Their essential distinguishing feature where that they sometimes had slightly rounded corners and came in 'fun' colors. Kind of like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Tezro#/media/File:Silicone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane#/media/File:SgiOcta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2#/media/File:Silicon_Gra...

Those unfortunately now just remind me of the Hot Wheels PC https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/azdp7i/hot_wh...

I'd rather see more like the SGI Indy workstation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy#/media/File:Silicon_G...

I think Sony's got your back there. Looks like a source of inspiration for the PS4

I mean... they definitely look like they're from the 90's future.

The Tezro and Octane both have prominent power-on lights, but I think they're tasteful and cool.

No, he's talking about classic SGI machines like the Tezro:

https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/746965/original_3c751a...

> The apple trashcan certainly looks vastly better than other commercially available *trashcans.

I don’t think anyone who’s ever shopped for designer trashcans would agree with this :P

> The apple trashcan certainly looks vastly better than other commercially available workstations.

Not really, when given the tendency of them to roll around when being transported in production environments, they tend to end up bolted within wooden boxes with little wheels on the bottom.

There's a reason Apple listened and put wheels on the new one.

To be fair, the machine's tendency to roll around during transport is irrelevant to the claim that it looks better than its competitors.

I meant more that it doesn't look better if it's inside a plywood box.

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