According to late 2000s concept art, this was the future

Does anyone remember a time in the late 2000s, when there was tons of futuristic-looking concept art about future tech? Especially after the original iPhone came out, there were many mockups of sleek and/or touch-first types of devices. I know I have an iPod Chimera somewhere.. found it.
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(Above: The 2010 iPod Chimera, Artist: unknown)
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(Above: MacBook Page By Devindh Baburam)

Here is another piece of concept tech art I found, which looks like a refined ModBook. The ports on the side look like they’re straight off a PC laptop, the body looks like polished stainless steel.
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Frutiger Aero in real life

This is an iPad mini 6 in Purple, running Mac OS X Leopard in UTM on iPadOS 26. It took a few minutes to copy over USB to the iPad, and even longer onto the USB from the Mac, but we made it. Had to delete some apps to clear enough room for this, too.
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Frutiger Aero was all the rage back then, so it’s only era-appropriate to take these pictures in tall, lush looking grass. The effect would have been even more profound if there were dew droplets. Frutiger Aero is an aesthetic style coined in 2017 by Sofia Lee of the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute.

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Setting up Mac OS X Leopard in UTM

You don’t even have to install Mac OS X or Mac OS on your own anymore, they’re all uploaded for your convenience to the internet archive. A Low End Mac user uploaded a file containing Mac OS 9 all the way through Leopard, which you may drag-ang-drop onto the iPad.

The way I did it was by copying to a USB then using a USB-C to A adapter and copying the file off the USB to the iPad locally. I chose not to keep the file in iCloud storage as it is close to 20 GB in size.

UTM SE is a free app on the App Store, it allows you to emulate many different OSes. It’s best suited for older OSes not needing as much power or GPU hardware acceleration when it comes to macOS, but it can just about run Leopard. Mac OS 9 seems to run nice on here. Leopard just fits so well with the purple of the iPad.
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