Want a superlegal reading tip from the design field for this Saturday? Fear not, dear reader, for you have just come to the right place.
The designer and developer Arun Venkatesan posted on his blog an interesting article analyzing Apple's design choices in the new Mac pro (and in Pro Display XDR) and proving by A + B his argument: that Ma's newest creations are a veritable collection of thoughtful design solutions presented by the company over the past two decades, both in successful products and resounding failures.
For example, the structure of the new Mac Pro, based on the four stainless steel “legs” that extend at the top to become wings and the bottom, to turn feet, in the new: the beautiful, but ill-fated Power Mac G4 Cube It was already adopting a similar solution at the beginning of the millennium, with an aluminum box that kept its internal architecture and the feet that extended to the top as structural elements.
Of Power Mac G5/Mac pro Classic (the eternal “cheese grater”), the new machine adopts the concept of separate thermal zones, which allows the cooling of internal components more efficiently.
J the openings on the front and back of the computer (and the back of the Pro Display XDR) take the lessons Apple learned in precisely cutting the MacBooks Air / Pro 2008 (and all subsequent portable Macs), in order to make openings in the aluminum without compromising its structural rigidity with this, we have a process that removes more than 50% of the aluminum from the carcass, but allows air to pass through while retaining the structure. solid as soon as possible.
The Pro Display XDR articulation, for its part, seems to have direct inspiration from the arm of the beautiful one. iMac G4 It was so strong that Apple recommended using it as a wing of the machine when carrying it. Since the cables that come with the Mac Pro, covered with a fabric fiber, are similar to those that Ma already ships in the box of each HomePod.
The peripherals (Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse) have a combination of traditional silver design and the space gray finish of the accessories that come with the iMac Pro.
At least one element of Apple's new Mac Pro, Venkatesan recalls: its training wheels. All right, so the crowd is cheering for the Greatest hits of the design applied here are successful, really?
tip of Henrique Cunha
