On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Dan wrote:
Not crazy about the iMac G4 design (too many with limp necks). But
I really like the rest of the iMac designs over the years. Very
cool. sigh. Now if only they were easier to repair. Good industrial
design should, IMO, include easy-open / access features. Yea, I
know - Jobs is anti-user upgrade. But geeze - 90% of the bench time
should NOT be taken up by just opening and closing a machine!
Only iMacs, really, and then just some, the G4 iMac in particular. The
G5 iMac was remarkably easy to get into. If only we didn't have to on
such a regular basis...it's as if they knew that one was going to be
the problem child.
But then I still have my 11" long torx screwdriver and case cracker in
the toolbox. :-)
Every B&W G3 and G4 was a breeze to work on, except for the nasty
sharp bits pulling the optical drive cable and after a while you
develop sufficient scar tissue across your knuckles that you don't
notice.
Of the earlier PowerPC macs only the tower models were a PITA, the
desktops were easy to work on; and the PC's of the same era were just
as bad, if not worse. There has been more than one old Dell design
that I've been unable to figure out how to even open the case without
resorting to research. I swear, sometimes that Dell employed the guy
who designed this <http://tinyurl.com/ydv2aw8> .
:-)
IMO the worst single design decision Apple ever made (after the puck
mouse, which is an entire 'sucky design decision' magnitude greater)
was the placement of the power switch on the Centris 610. <http://tinyurl.com/yk32u63
>
Back in the bad old days, when there were only three Macs in the
entire college, in one prof's lab, mac newbies would constantly
complain to me that every time they tried to eject a disk the computer
shut down :-)
--
Bruce Johnson
"Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD
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