I really like this photo:
I learned so many things from it. Using the Mac Pro in the foreground as a reference for scale, I learned that Steve had a custom 60" monitor made for his home office. I also learned that he was four meters tall.
The perspective messes everything up. It’s obviously a half-in-all-dimensions model of the machine that would become the Mac Pro in time. Once you realize that, the gigantic monitor turns into a standard production 30" Cinema Display, and Steve is a normal-sized human again.
I was just amused at how if you use the little model of the great big computer as your size reference, everything else scales up in proportion.
I found myself laughing at this. I’ve seen this photo before but I never really THOUGHT about the photo. Perspective is everything.
That’s probably not a Mac Pro; IIRC some of the 3rd party vendors manufactured hard drive enclosures in the shape of a “mini-me” version of the Mac Pro — which would fit with the scale.
The monitor doesn’t look quite right, but a custom 42" in an Apple Cinema Display enclosure wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest — I’m fairly sure that before prototypes would be let loose in the world Steve would insist on road-testing them himself.