 There are some things in life that capture one's soul, like design that goes beyond the ordinary, compelling beauty and grace, a sweeping curve, the perfect line. In the pursuit of design, humankind continues to make better and more elegant solutions. From furniture to architecture to the tools we use every day, the unity of form and function can't help but make an impact on our lives. Balance, contrast, texture, color, and some deeper meaning. Art is design. Design is art. Life is kept exciting by the discoveries that emerge. They keep us looking forward, reaching for new ideas and innovations. Apple's 20th anniversary Macintosh. A design for the future. So if you imagine an object that is a television, that's a radio, that's a computer, whatever computer means. You imagine an object that has an incredible sound system. You imagine all of those functionalities, all of those technologies. You imagine them converging into one object. What should that object be? What on earth should it look like? One of the things that I think is really striking about the product are the colors that we've used, the materials and the finishes. So those range from fabric on the speaker through to leather on the palm rest. Even the subwoofer that normally lives on the floor actually has a large rubber component on the top. We really also wanted to design a product that would fit into environments, into personal environments, much better than traditional solutions have done. Footprint is a product. We know that traditional computers take up way too much room on the desk. They're too big. They're too heavy. So we wanted to design a product that had a very small footprint, a product that is easy to move around. We wanted to try and manage the cables better to actually make the thing easy to set up, but also to make sure that the back of the computer, the back of the object was as well resolved as the front. And certainly the sound system of the product really did demand that we try to convey, try to describe just how compelling, just how impressive the experience is. Painting the plastics with a lacquer that actually has metallic flaking as well gives the plastics a depth that you don't often associate with computers. The foot on the product is diecast from metal. That's a great material in terms of its strength and its weight. The foot also serves two purposes. Obviously to support the unit, it lets you adjust the angle of the main head unit, but also it folds up and becomes a handle. You can have the the pointing device integrated with the palm rest. You can actually detach it and use it to the side of the keyboard, or you can actually replace it with a mouse altogether. The 20th anniversary Macintosh, I think really describes a whole new product type. And while it doesn't have answers for all the questions it asks, I think it's a consequential. It's an important product. I think it gives a new face, a new meaning to technology that has changed at an enormous pace over the last 20 years. I think more significant, more exciting is the indication, is the signal that Apple takes design very seriously, that Apple is prepared to innovate, maybe ask more questions than provide answers for, but that we're pushing design extremely aggressively as we close the millennium.