Lego iMac G3 concept is unlikely to go anywhere, but it is very cute

Begging Apple to let another company make Macs for the first time since the '90s.

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[gnasher729]

The sad thing is there's more of a chance of Apple sending cease and desist letters to Lego to take that suggestion off their site then to allow Lego to make this

Says who?

 

[gnasher729]

I'm love a lime one since I foolishly gave mine away when I moved across the country and like a rotary telephone or typewriter I'm missing the beauty of our "can't be hidden so might as well make it look pretty" ancient technology.

That's a nice use of Boba Fett's windscreen.

Mine died during a thunderstorm. The modem cable went inside the computer, and poof! Home insurance company told me they had to replace about 200 computers that night. I took the money, bought a tower Mac, and a surge protector.

 

[gnasher729]

Here’s what I bought:

 

[gnasher729]

You mean would he company who once went after a place that sells apple fritters because they used the word apple and a somewhat similar logo go after lego?

Citation needed. Did they really? One place I worked at used a security company named “Apple Security”. No problem.

 

[gnasher729]

That wasn't the Ebay ad: Classic Mac, working condition, $500
was it?

No. Thats a real product from a company selling the Mac, a PlayStation, a Walkman, a ghetto blaster, and some other classical products for less than £7 each. Photo taken at my home. You can pull the front off and it is filled with “electronics” inside. Half the size of Lego bricks. Buy quickly before Trump adds 100% or 200% tariffs.

 

[gnasher729]

The creator of this would make more money, if all of us that want one of these would pay him $3 for a part list and assembly instructions, than he would ever make if LEGO did make this kit (which they won’t both because there isn’t enough demand and because Apple probably has a cease and desist letter ready to print).

Please explain why Apple would have a cease and desist letter ready. Do you think customers might confuse this model with a real Mac?

 

[gnasher729]

Interesting. I should have screenshots from some time ago when I was eying up some sets.
Or maybe the price for polycarbonate has shot up?
Lego never struck me as a money grabbing company. Yes, sets are not cheap, but given the precision the blocks are manufactured to and the material itself plus its longevity I find the price acceptable.
But then again, I'm a Lego addict since 1959

The thing that is really annoying is “rare collector sets” that are not cheap when you buy them from Lego but also not excessively expensive, but then they stop selling them and they appear on eBay with the price tag multiplied by 5 or 10.

Right now on eBay UK: “Lego Star Wars Cloud City 10123 Rare Very Good Condition” for £6,000 or best offer. Thats British Pound, not Yen.

Of course Lego could stop that in an instant by releasing 100 of this set at a reasonable price and shoot these speculators in the knee.