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Jon Rubinstein, who was in charge of hardware, adapted the microprocessor and guts of the PowerMac G3,
負責硬件的部門主管喬恩·魯賓斯坦，決定采用PowerMac G3的微處理器和內核，
Apple's high-end professional computer, for use in the proposed new machine.
這是蘋果專業類專業版電腦，針對計劃中的新機器使用。
It would have a hard drive and a tray for compact disks,
此外還安裝了一個硬盤驅動器和一個光盤托盤，
but in a rather bold move, Jobs and Rubinstein decided not to include the usual floppy disk drive.
但是喬布斯和魯賓斯坦作了一個大膽的決定--新機器不再配備普遍使用的軟盤驅動器。
Jobs quoted the hockey star Wayne Gretzky's maxim, "Skate where the puck's going, not where it's been."
喬布斯引用了冰球明星韋恩·格雷茨基的名言：“要向著冰球運動的方向滑，而不是它現在的位置。”
He was a bit ahead of his time, but eventually most computers eliminated floppy disks.
在當時他這個做法非常前衛，但是最終大多數計算機都取消了軟盤驅動器。
Ive and his top deputy, Danny Coster, began to sketch out futuristic designs.
艾弗和他的第一助理丹尼·柯斯特開始計劃這種未來主義的設計。
Jobs brusquely rejected the dozen foam models they initially produced, but Ive knew how to guide him gently.
喬布斯不客氣地否決了他們最初設計的幾十個模型，然而艾弗知道怎么去溫和地引導他。
Ive agreed that none of them was quite right, but he pointed out one that had promise.
艾弗認同所有的模型都不完美，但是他指出了其中一個有希望的。
It was curved, playful looking, and did not seem like an unmovable slab rooted to the table.
曲線形的有趣外觀，看上去也不像是一塊釘在桌子上挪不走的板子。
"It has a sense that it's just arrived on your desktop or it's just about to hop off and go somewhere," he told Jobs.
“它帶著一種剛剛來到你桌上，又隨時可能會飛到其他地方的感覺。”他這樣告訴喬布斯。
