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This has got to be

Posted October 20, 2001 11:43 AM.

This has got to be my fetish of the moment - ever more pseudo-Apple product designs - some weird, some awful, some truly beautiful. The mistake that is made a lot - particularly in the renditions of the potential new design possibilities of a flat-screen iMac - is that the iMac has to be a friendly looking computer - a computer that has removed all the 'computery' bits that worry people. Some of the projected designs look like flash-backs to 1990, or earlier. Or they look like sleek designer products for people with very urban, stark sensibilities. Where's the 'cute' appeal that the iMac has?

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