L-Shaped Mac Mini Might Be Shape Of Things To Come
3:03 pm, December 4th, 2008, Giles Turnbull
The New Mac Mini Concept from Sait Alanyali on Vimeo.
Behold, the work of Sait Alanyali, designer of things. His plan for an L-shaped Mac mini might leave you a little bemused, to put it mildly, but apart from the hemisphere, what other shapes have been cruelly ignored by Jonathan Ive and his Mac design minions in recent years? Why haven’t we seen a tetrahedron iMac? A rhomboidal iPod? What about iWork packaging that takes the form of a Möbius strip?
While you’re pondering that, have a look at Sait’s Ikea-hacked work station. He even painted the plastic surrounds of his cheap monitors white, so that they’d look the part.
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Hardware, Humor, News |
Concept or not, its crap. heat rises and when it does it wont come out the bottom like that. if its sitting down, it blocks the fan. this guy must never even use a computer or in the least know simple physics. GARBAGE, DONT WASTE MY TIME!!!
Phil, on December 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
interesting, but not at all practical. i’d like to see it do a cute dance with a power cord and 5 usb cables plugged into it.
ncbd, on December 4th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Gee Phil, maybe a little less caffeine?
Don, on December 4th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
stupid concept….what would be the point….air flow? give me a break
theone, on December 4th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I agree with Phil, this is a waste of time. This final insult sees cultofmac.com removed from my auto-click blogs bookmark.
Good Luck!
SAM, on December 4th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
@ SAM - why would you take it that far? You know what this site is all about…good ridance…
theone, on December 4th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
FUG
Felipe, on December 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Wow. Pretty goddamn useless.
And fugly.
And wtf is with the obsession with the fans? The guy knows the Cube didn’t even need fans, right?
Church of Apple, on December 5th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Fascinating design IMO. It doesnt take to be a genius to see that such a tiny device wont have so much problem removing the heat.
I am amazed by how many ways you can use it. Especially pyramid-like stand is unseen before..
Good job.
Onur, on December 5th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
It doesn’t take to be a genius to do a lot of things, random dude.
a, on December 6th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Genius! It resolves a problem with the Mac Mini that never even existed! Not only that, but it introduces a form factor that limits its placement.
This thing is so awesome!
Tim, on December 7th, 2008 at 6:16 am