Off-topic - I love the fact that Apple takes care to make the insides look as nice as the outside. Everything from the layout to the boards looks so good.
Growing up, Jobs once helped his father build a fence around their family home in Mountain View. While working, Paul shared a piece of advice with Jobs: “You’ve got to make the back of the fence, that nobody will see, just as good looking as the front of the fence. Even though nobody will see it, you will know, and that will show that you’re dedicated to making something perfect.”
The idea stuck with Jobs.
While at the helm of Apple, Jobs insisted that every element of the Macintosh computer be beautiful, down to the circuit boards inside.
“Look at the memory chips. That’s ugly. The lines are too close together,” Jobs said of the circuits in Isaacson’s biography.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/how-steve-jobs-developed-his...
The laptops get scores of 2~4 (the touchbar iterations were an amazing 1, you have to look for the Surface Laptop or an orange to get worse), meanwhile the iphone 14 debuted a new design which earned a 7.
>The laptops get scores of 2~4 (the touchbar iterations were an amazing 1, you have to look for the Surface Laptop or an orange to get worse), meanwhile the iphone 14 debuted a new design which earned a 7.
I'm more optimistic than sudhirj. There is a longstanding trend in Apple, going back to the Apple II versus Macintosh 128K, of alternating between open and sealed designs. As just one of many, many examples: The iBook G3 (not the clamshell)? Very sealed. iBook G4? Quite open, despite its exterior having very few changes.
The innards of the PowerMac G4 towers and PowerBook/iBook G4s weren't very nice looking, and the latter were an absolute nightmare to disassemble with 3x as many screws as seen in the video above.
Where that changed was with the PowerMac G5 and iMac G5 on the desktop side of things and the unibody MacBooks on the portable side. The internals of the first couple revisions of 20" iMac G5 in particular were very nice both aesthetically and from a serviceability standpoint, which they unfortunately degraded with later revisions by making it necessary to remove the screen to access internals.
I remember they were dangerous to repair as the screw lengths were all different and you could screw a long screw into a short hole which would cut into some pcb traces.
I disassembled a white iBook G4 ages ago and it was a real mess to take apart.