#Mac powerbook g4 titanium 2001 full
At 25mm (1”) thick, it was a full 18mm (0.7”) thinner than its G3 PowerBook predecessor. The TiBook is outwardly a simple rectangle which emphasizes its thinness by simply being a block, and not doing any visual tricks such as color breaks or chamfers to make it look thinner than it is. (Hence the asterisk up in the header.) Square in all the Right Places The entry for the Industrial Designers Society of America’s Gold Award simply credits ”Apple Computer, Inc”, but that was standard practice at the time for the company. But as some have observed, it bore little resemblance to anything else that Ive designed. It’s hard to believe that Apple Industrial Design Group chief Jonathan Ive had no role in such a tent-pole product. That may very well be correct, but it’s difficult to discern their specific roles, or who else may have been involved. Three people - Jory Bell, Nick Merz, and Danny Delulis - are typically credited, though the standardization of that order of mentioning them in every article, and the lack of any other details makes it seem like everyone is just repeating the same original source (whatever that was). Sadly, little is known about the design process and who drove it. As we shall see, however, it was something of a one-off, as subsequent laptops took that aesthetic in a more bland direction. Just as the Apple IIc created the design language Apple would follow for years to come, the TiBook (as it was commonly known) kick-started the more minimalist aesthetic for PowerBooks and MacBooks to the current day. And you paid for all that power and style: It was priced between $2,500 and $3,500 in 2001, or $3,800 to $5,125 today. A cool, sleek 1-inch thick slab of titanium clad futurism that oozed power and brutalist refinement. The PowerBook G4 was launched Januat MacWorld Expo and marked a 180 degree change from the curvy plastic PowerBook G3s that had come before (and from the consumer-oriented iBooks then on sale with their iMac-inspired colors and shapes). The colorful translucent iMac was a big hit in 1998, but the company’s laptop line was a languishing mess of polycarbonate blobs that even then felt cumbersome and uninspiring. In early 2001 Apple was still finding its mojo and remained a decidedly niche brand. Steve Jobs had recently returned, and October of that year (just a month after 9/11) the iPod was launched, which led to the iPhone, which led to the Apple we know today.
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