Apple WTF

Daniel_Beardsmore

The first time I saw an iLamp, I laughed, and laughed, and laughed, until they took it away again.

I can put up with the low resolution, unevenly lit and washed out screen that won't quite stay where you left it, the ridiculous DVD drive flap (even when it jams), and the unsatisfactory keyboard (bring back the AppleDesign Keyboard; even the diddy keyboards had nicer keys) but what I can't abide is a power button that's impossible to find. It's small, obscure, and not located anywhere near a corner (ha) in the case. If any machine truly needed the original power button on the keyboard where it belongs, that was it.

Moving the headphone jack socket around to the back somewhere was another mistake -- classic 1 m earphone cables are too short to go all that far around (the modern cables are often 0.5 m longer, which I really appreciate). The iLamp regressed a lot, which was sad.

dhromed

I googled for iLamp and got something apparently quite different from what yall talking boot. So what's an iLamp?

(i got a desk light with a pod dock)

PJH

@dhromed said:

i got a desk light with a pod dock

Adding 'Apple' to the search terms gets http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign/iLamp.html - admittedly not much closer to what they're describing I think.

Decided to try Images instead - came up with this:

The second iMac, the G4, was released in 2002. It had a futuristic form factor, it was snowy white and had a hemispherical base containing all the main components and an LCD monitor on a moving arm attached to the top of the base. It was nicknamed the "iLamp".