When you first cast eyes on the new Mac Studio, it’s hard not to be reminded of the old Power Mac G4 Cube. The G4 Cube, was released back in 2000 and was one of Apple’s first attempts to produce a powerful, small form factor desktop computer without a built-in screen. The Cube itself was something of a Marmite design –a 7.7-inch computer housed in a box of clear acrylic, making it look like no computer had ever looked before. Some people loved it, others weren’t sure what it was and some people thought it looked like a box of tissues.
Of course, Apple’s golden boy Jonny Ive designed it, and it looked like it belonged to the same family as his other classic computers, like the iMac and the Power Mac G4. But if we’re honest, it was a little more towards the ‘toaster’ end of the design spectrum than anything else he’d done.