The Macintosh will celebrate its 31st anniversary in 11 more days, and while Apple’s design team has moved on from the tiny all-in-one form factor of the first Macintosh, our friends at Curved decided to bring a facelift to Steve Jobs’ creation that led the PC revolution.
For their futuristic redesign, the Curved team slapped an 11-inch MacBook Air screen into a thin brushed aluminum frame that mimics the original shape of the Macintosh. Instead of running regular OS X, the new Macintosh packs touchscreen controls to go with 128GB of storage and 8 GB of RAM.
Take a look at some of the mockups below to see if you’d like this concept to grace your desktop.
The back of the new Macintosh would feature one USB port and a Thunderbolt port, however, recent rumors claim Apple is moving to just one USB type-C port on the MacBook Air line. The rear shell also has a glowing Apple logo.
It comes and Silver, Gold, and Space Grey and actually looks more like an iPad Air stand than a Mac. Someone should hurry up and Kickstart this thing
Source: Curved
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14 responses to “Macintosh gets a facelift after 31 years in this fun concept”
That would be a great idea for an iPad stand using the Apple keyboard for input. iPad would need to be vertical for the docks connector, but still.
I agree. A stand like this will help the iPad to be used as a “portable” desktop Mac. Also, it will greatly help any users anywhere. I imagine this kind of stand in coffee shop, library, etc. With connectors adapter, any iPad could be used for free!!
How would the disc drive On the front work?
That’s a credit card reader on the front so you can make online purchases.
With Apple Pay, why is even that required?
I was being fatuous. Christ! You wonder about some people.
Why not turn that around, tilt the display the opposite direction and build in keyboard
We all realize this isn’t a “mock-up,” but a digital rendition, right?
I don’t think I have wanted a computer on my desk as much as I want this one in a very long time. Is that wrong? Oh well, I don’t care. I really dig this design.
I think that this design may be the next Mac Mini!!! I hope that Apple will go in this way because a lot of people is waiting to buy a iMac at a true affordable price and this beauty could be the answer. I sign for it!!
Love it. If I was a Desktop user that would be the machine for me. So long as I can get specs like 27″ Retina Display, 2Tb HDD, 128G RAM etc etc.
Barely any improvement. Why is that stupid double bend there? Why not a simple L design? what a waste of my internet time.
Then, why are you typing this comment??? dooh!!! ^^
You are clearly too stupid for the Internet if you have to ask those questions.