After 30 years of Mac design and innovation, these are our favorites [gallery]

Apple’s Mac team reunited after 30 years (since 1984), celebrating a mostly successful line of innovative engineering and design. We’ve taken this opportunity to round-up some of our favourite designs so far.

We all know that Steve Jobs was a perfectionist and almost tyrannical when it came to the Apple design process. But, there is also no “i” in team, or Steve Jobs. In a CNET article Apple’s vice president of software technology Bud Tribble spoke about his experiences in contributing to the Mac’s design evolution over the years. “We really tried to bring aesthetics into it. We had a group of people from different backgrounds — myself in medicine, we had a physicist, archaeologist, musicians,” he said. He further noted that the Macs through the ages all carry the same DNA.

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