It would be interesting to know if that drive, which if I remember correctly was manufactured by LaCie for Apple, was even designed by Apple, or if they just said "oh whatever, put our logo on something that looks nice."
In part because there were so many machines, it probably wasn't designed to match a specific one, as much as just be a piece of hardware with the Espresso design language, like any of the printers, scanners, cameras, or what-have-you Apple was building (or contracting, as in the case of at least the QuickTake 200) at the time.
As far as the machines Apple was building -- don't forget their three unrelated laptop lines.
In all, Apple had something like fourteen or fifteen models, and you're not wrong when you say that it was really too much for Apple to handle. One of the first things Jobs did when he got back was to kill almost all of the machines they were making, bringing the line-up to PowerMac G3 (DT/MT/AIO), iMac, PowerBook G3, and in 1999 -- iBook.
Arguably if you count configurations, and move forward a few years (when there were things like iMac/iMac DV/iMac DV SE going on) -- Apple eventually started making a lot more machines again, but you can almost always distill it back to "is this prosumer or is this consumer? is this a desktop or a laptop?"
In part because there were so many machines, it probably wasn't designed to match a specific one, as much as just be a piece of hardware with the Espresso design language, like any of the printers, scanners, cameras, or what-have-you Apple was building (or contracting, as in the case of at least the QuickTake 200) at the time.
As far as the machines Apple was building -- don't forget their three unrelated laptop lines.
In all, Apple had something like fourteen or fifteen models, and you're not wrong when you say that it was really too much for Apple to handle. One of the first things Jobs did when he got back was to kill almost all of the machines they were making, bringing the line-up to PowerMac G3 (DT/MT/AIO), iMac, PowerBook G3, and in 1999 -- iBook.
Arguably if you count configurations, and move forward a few years (when there were things like iMac/iMac DV/iMac DV SE going on) -- Apple eventually started making a lot more machines again, but you can almost always distill it back to "is this prosumer or is this consumer? is this a desktop or a laptop?"