While installing a new Unifi UNAS Pro it really hit me how good Apples industrial design is. I enjoy a good Thinkpad, I love a little RGB but there is something so beautiful about the design Apple put into something that was meant to sit in a server rack and be seen by only a few people.

At the start of my career in tech I wanted to be a designer because I was inspired by how beautiful everything Apple was.

I bought my first mac, an iBook G4 1Ghz after working on a farm all summer. Shortly after I landed a job designing brochures for a local retirement plan company and slowly realized that I didn’t have the chops for serious design and focused on my IT skills.

There will always be a part of me that watches for these on Ebay and will try to justify building something with them.

Something that would probably be a bit more realistic though would be the iMac G4 with an M4 mod. So cool!