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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

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.

Mindwipe 7y ago
> 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.
- cjaybo 7y ago
  To be fair, the machine's tendency to roll around during transport is irrelevant to the claim that it looks better than its competitors.
  - Mindwipe 7y ago
    I meant more that it doesn't look better if it's inside a plywood box.
throwaway744678 7y ago
> The apple trashcan certainly looks vastly better than other commercially available *trashcans.
- ryanlol 7y ago
  I don’t think anyone who’s ever shopped for designer trashcans would agree with this :P
nickpeterson 7y ago
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.
- dzhiurgis 7y ago
  You mean bright LED's and transformer-like mods? I don't think so, seems like ALL gaming PC's are like that.
  - dagw 7y ago
    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_Graphics_SGI_Tezro_Workstation.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Tezro#/media/File:Silicone... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane#/media/File:SgiOctane.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane#/media/File:SgiOcta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2#/media/File:Silicon_Graphics_O2_Plus.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2#/media/File:Silicon_Gra...
    - mrpippy 7y ago
      The Tezro and Octane both have prominent power-on lights, but I think they're tasteful and cool.
    - olyjohn 7y ago
      I mean... they definitely look like they're from the 90's future.
    - mrguyorama 7y ago
      Those unfortunately now just remind me of the Hot Wheels PC https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/azdp7i/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_Graphics_Indy.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy#/media/File:Silicon_G...

Mindwipe 7y ago

> 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.

cjaybo 7y ago
To be fair, the machine's tendency to roll around during transport is irrelevant to the claim that it looks better than its competitors.
- Mindwipe 7y ago
  I meant more that it doesn't look better if it's inside a plywood box.

throwaway744678 7y ago

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

ryanlol 7y ago
I don’t think anyone who’s ever shopped for designer trashcans would agree with this :P

nickpeterson 7y ago

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.

dzhiurgis 7y ago
You mean bright LED's and transformer-like mods? I don't think so, seems like ALL gaming PC's are like that.
- dagw 7y ago
  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_Graphics_SGI_Tezro_Workstation.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Tezro#/media/File:Silicone... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane#/media/File:SgiOctane.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane#/media/File:SgiOcta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2#/media/File:Silicon_Graphics_O2_Plus.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2#/media/File:Silicon_Gra...
  - mrpippy 7y ago
    The Tezro and Octane both have prominent power-on lights, but I think they're tasteful and cool.
  - olyjohn 7y ago
    I mean... they definitely look like they're from the 90's future.
  - mrguyorama 7y ago
    Those unfortunately now just remind me of the Hot Wheels PC https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/azdp7i/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_Graphics_Indy.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy#/media/File:Silicon_G...