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Slideshow: Master Maker of Mockup Macs

Japanese photographer Isamu Sanada fancies himself another Steve Jobs, spending weeks designing Macintosh computers. He's so good at anticipating Apple, he dreams up machines before the company does. By Leander Kahney.
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The iTube: A titanium, cylindrical G4 tower.Isamu Sanada

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Another titanium G4.

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Isamu Sanada posing as Steve Jobs, holding one of his own Applele designs. Note his toe sticking out through his sock.

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Sanada's design for an Apple webpad: the HiMate.

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This PowerBook mockup was created 2 months prior to the release of Apple's Titanium PowerBook G4; a testiment of Sanada's keen understanding of Apple design.

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Sanada's updated design for a Newton PDA.

Sanada's updated design for a Newton PDA.

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Sanada's Pin-Pin game console. The name is a play on Apple's doomed Pippin player that never got off the ground a few years ago.

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Sanada's riff on Apple's Cube: a titanium-colored G4 computer.

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