What's the Coolest Apple/Macintosh project ever?

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by jdiwnab

Do you mean done with a mac to to a mac or by mac?
Pixar does great things with macs (Hehe).
The G5 iMac is really cool too.
And, already stated, the VT computer is really cool.

Actually, Pixar does most of their work on Silicon Graphics machines. They only recently ported their Renderman Server software to Macintosh. I doubt any of the films you have seen so far from Pixar made significant use of the Mac in their production. I do expect that to change though with the porting of Renderman.

It's been a common "dig" in the industry to point at Steve Jobs and say, "If the Mac is so great, why isn't his other company using it?" So Pixar is making the change.

Best thing about the Mac is the "Human Interface Guidelines" that Apple put together. Make programs adhere to standards that aren't different for similar operations (cut and paste, menu system, open, save, etc.). I bought my first Mac (Mac 512k -- FatMAC) in 1985, and all the grad students laughed at its' size and shape. While they were struggling through the manuals for word processors and other programs though, I was the one laughing. You didn't have to learn new keystrokes for each new program. Unfortunately, human interfaces have taken a back seat to "bells and whistles", or I'd be speaking to my computer now just as Captain Kirk does on Star Trek. (My son plans to change that though upon graduation -- B.S. 2006 EE/CE. Go Josh!!!))