It’s the little things…
I was killing time in the Apple store while my wife did some last minute Christmas shopping last night, and I took a closer look at the new LED Cinema Display. It’s really a beautiful design, but one thing jumped out at me that I’d never noticed before—the aluminum foot that the display rests on is actually tapered at the end.
This little detail struck me as so Apple. The previous Cinema Displays have the same foot, but not tapered. That existing solid aluminum base has gotten praise for years for its simplicity and minimalist design. There really wasn’t any need to change it, except for the fact that it made it better. When you put the wafer thin new aluminum keyboard in front of it, they compliment each other even more with their thin size. It reminds you of the MacBook Air. I ran my hand over it to feel how thin it actually was.
I don’t know that many people would even recognize the change if it wasn’t pointed out to them, but somehow that’s not the point. It’s a tiny change in relation to the overhaul of the whole display, but to me it speaks volumes.
