I haven’t reached this stage yet because lugging this 40 lb monstrosity is a weekend endeavor complete with cab ride to Manhattan. In the past I have used my cart with bungee cords to bring it in, but I don’t think I’ll feel like doing that when I decide to bring it into the store. I think Jonathan Ive is a rich enough guy that he can just design Apple products without having to deal with nitty gritty details of actually using them. The handles on the G5 might as well not be there at all because it’s metal with sharp edges. Of course it is actually better that they’re there, but no one is going to want to use them for any extended period of time.
I don’t understand, since Apple already went through some changes with the handles on the computers in the past that they’re going through it again. My G4 has these plastic grooves on the handles that make it uncomfortable to hold. Two generations later on the quicksilver G4 they finally got them to be smooth, but now we’re worse off than when we started.
An amusing link my friend Mark likes to point out to me when he gets the chance is the Knowledge Base instructions on the offical Apple website on How to Pick Up your iMac G5. I think the notoriety of this article is roughly equivalent to the disclaimer on the iPod Shuffle page that said “Do not eat the iPod Shuffle.” It looks like that’s since been removed.
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