Imo the old Macintosh design is the 1969 VW Beetle/ bus of computers. ✌️☮️🌼
Honestly, I am really happy we passed that transparent bubblegum-toy style. My hope is that we move towards physical buttons again, at least where they make sense (cars for example).
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You’re a fan of the half-transparent aesthetic? I’m not.
Never forget what they took from us
I guess it’s very much a matter of taste.
Ten years or so earlier, you could still get a TV where the sides of the case were made of wood. Wood, metal and black plastic throughout. Physical buttons that went ‘clunk’, a physical slider to adjust the volume, a metal dial for tuning.
To me, that was peak design.
I actually took a busted one of those and fit a 32in flat into it. Blocks off a little of the edges with the frame and gives it that square screen look without losing anything important. Cheap soundbar sounds amazing inside the box, everything is plugged into a surge protector inside and fed through the antenna hole.
I really want to get a Vintage breadbox or radio to put the DVD player inside of.
That sounds amazing. I’d love to see a photo. I’d planned a similar project with an old radio, but it’s one of those things that’s been on my “I’ll get round to it eventually” list for 5 years :)
I’m snap a pic when I get home, I still need to find the right tacky fabric to finish the boarder, but it at least works
Technology design peaked here:
I don’t know why, but translucent colored plastic gives me “cheap garbage” vibes. Probably because knock off memory cards and controllers for the PS1/PS2 used exactly that design.
Hey, I still have that exact iMac on my garage!
It’s got Yellow Dog Linux on it lol
Give me translucent Game Boy Color any day :)
Wrong, you can get colored and transparent shells for the Steam Deck. Design technology is still peaking.
)I got one in ‘atomic purple’ because that is the most rad color.
Literally just got a semi-transparent Xbox controller. My kid loves looking at the rumble motor moving inside.
I only got the backplate but man I’m tempted to do the front too.
Also transparent filaments are great. I 3D printed an olfa knife handle in transparent green (think Razer’s green) and it looks fucking awesome.
Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these
Did…did you eat your atomic purple N64?
It was just a nibble!
We were all tempted. It’s okay.
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REAL
The iMac started this.
I definitely had a translucent tape player and clock radio in 1995.
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