miss the old shipping boxes

[abevilac]

I'm taking out my christmas stuff and I have some of it in the original shipping box for a G4 PowerMac. It sure is a beautiful box; it proudly shouts its contents w/ words and pictures. I wonder why they switched to plain brown boxes???

[jardster]

aren't brown plain boxes just for refurbs?

[abevilac]

They actually used to ship in the photo on the outside box. Now, they ship that box in a box, or at least my last two purchases came that way.

[rjmacs]

Plain brown is for 'furbs... Shiny pretty boxes still available for brand spankin' new machines. Apple loves to show off their stuff, and they've always done a good job with packaging/marketing. The boxes just make you want to open up the package and try out all the cool stuff highlighted on the box!

Edit: abevilac, what kinds of machines are you talking about? The smaller, more fragile machines (macbooks, imacs) are repackaged to protect the screens, but i think the towers still ship in shiny boxes, no?

[prymsnap]

The original box for my Imagewriter is still in use for Christmas ornament storage. Makes me smile every year when it gets hauled out of the attic.

[GGD]

Back in the early 1990's Apple changed their packaging to plain brown cardboard as part on an environmental initiative, but that changed back when Jobs returned.

I've got PowerBook 140, CD SC Plus, and Quadra 700 boxes that were from that plain brown era (they used black ink, and sometimes white ink for lettering on the plain brown).

Edit: And before that switch to brown, the boxes were white with red and black ink.

[abevilac]

OK. Stand corrected. My recents have all been laptops. I thought they were using brown boxes for security reasons.

[OWC Jamie]

My G4 Powermac came pretty black graphic box inside a thin chipboard sleeve.
Presumably to protect the integrity of the inner box. Probably also to disguise the contents.
Probably also to save the shipper(s) placing in another triple wall box.

Came straight from Apple.

[cbelt3]

Yeah, my original Appe ][ monitor box died in a basement flood a couple of years ago. It was a sad moment.

[LyleH]

Every year my Imagewriter II box is placed under our Christmas tree to keep it at the right height. :-)

LyleH