Rex Sowards creates a warm, sentimental Macintosh Pocket by taking the antique Macintosh Classic and condensing it into a seductive gadget akin to the Game Boy.

Arizona-based industrial designer Rex Sowards creates a one-of-a-kind, technologically advanced “Macintosh Pocket” by seamlessly shrinking the antique Macintosh Classic into a device resembling the Game Boy.

No one in the 1980s or 1990s could have even imagined the iPhone we have today, that much is certain.

What if, though, Apple had sought to create a pocket Macintosh at the time?

I had the idea to build a Macintosh phone and had been mulling it over for years while watching the show Kimmy Schmidt.

Kimmy had spent a considerable amount of time locked up in a shelter. She was given an iPhone upon finding the world, and upon seeing the Apple logo, she merely said, “Wow! Do you have a Macintosh?”

This is how the idea for the Macintosh Pocket originated, according to Sowards.

He contemplated including a floppy drive slot in this device but ultimately decided to conceptually concentrate on striking vintage Mac connections after spending a lot of time researching vintage Mac designs as well as the Snow White design language and aesthetic Apple used in the late 1980s.

Sowards derived most of his inspiration from the models he was most familiar with, including the Game Boy Pocket, and used its features as his model, from the Macintosh Classic to the Performa and Quadra.

He chose to have a slightly curved CRT monitor that gives the appearance of using an old-school computer, even though a device of this size from this age would have had a flat LCD screen.

This eclectic piece, which takes inspiration from the first PowerBooks, has a trackball on the right, which provides it the ideal space for the Apple logo and label.

I had so much fun putting the connectivity ports in the same back cover that the Game Boy had for the batteries.

Because it would be extremely “Apple” to conceal these ports, I deviated from placing them on the sides, which would have been the PCB’s more sensible location, Sowards continues.

He continued by listing the majority of the rear ports found on the Macintosh Classic, including the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), Printer, Modem, and a SCSI DB-25.

Additionally, he examined the labels of numerous older Macs for the back, and although they were all fairly similar, he skilfully concentrated most on reproducing the Performa’s rear label.