Here's What Apple Vision Pro's Huge Box Looks Like

[arc of the universe]

I like Big Box and I Can Not Lie.

and then, like, half of my paper was gone
and i was like
hnnhhph?

 

[Edsel]

After reading MacRumors detailed Vision Pro packaging description, all I could envision was this....🤣

 

[darngooddesign]

…The box is big and thick and I wasn't expecting that.

 

[coherence]

Seriously, this is ridiculous. $30B in R&D and they couldn't figure out how to get it into a box as small as MQ? I guess we won't be seeing an Apple exec touting how they reduced the packaging size to reduce their carbon footprint this year.

Is it $30B? I thought it was 15 years at roughly $1B per year. Curious to learn more.

 

[iZac]

I know this is just a render to allude to what it will look like, but for some reason the first thing that came to my mind was this old fake leak of a new iMac:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/imac-photos.86364/

yes this was only 20 years ago. Yes I wasted half my life lurking on this forum.

 

[randolorian]

What a chonker, an absolute unit.

 

[Abazigal]

Keeping the packaging compact by removing things like the charger, people complain.

Give people more stuff in the box (thus necessitating a larger container), people also complain.

 

[darngooddesign]

Keeping the packaging compact by removing things like the charger, people complain.

Give people more stuff in the box (thus necessitating a larger container), people also complain.

Yeah people who are irrationally biased against the VP are happy to have something else to complain about. That render makes it look larger than it probably is, but I’m looking forward to the unboxing videos so we can see how efficiently Apple packaged everything.

I bought an Amazon refurbished iPad Pro and its brown box was half as thick as the Apple box. Of course all they did was wrap the iPad in some bubble wrap while the cable and plug were sitting loose in it. Plenty of opportunities for the iPad to get scratched up during shipping.

 

[citysnaps]

Keeping the packaging compact by removing things like the charger, people complain.

Give people more stuff in the box (thus necessitating a larger container), people also complain.

Sadly, true. But it does help people to feel better.

 

[Born Again]

I collect Apple Boxes and have about 25 years worth. This won't fit on the shelf I use. They're all HOmePod height and only my PowerMac and iMac boxes sit out in the garage. The AVP box won't fit on my big shelf of boxes so I'm not sure where I'm going to put it. Maybe I need a new shelf?

Can you share a picture of your “collection”?

 

[adamjackson]

Talk about first world problems

I live in USA so yes.

 

[adamjackson]

Can you share a picture of your “collection”?

The are just the ones that sit behind me in my office on Zoom calls. there are more on the 2 shelves below. My wife for Christmas got me those Apple Park prints on the wall which I LOVE.

All of the computer boxes are in the garage and they're all in their respective cardboard boxes. All of the iPhone boxes have the iPhones in them including a gen 1 iPhone. I have some of the old iPads but not all and then I have every Apple Watch "series" box including the Series 0 space black w/ link bracelet (bottom right) and you can see how HUGE the gen 0 Apple Watch box was compared to toda.

 

[bodhisattva]

Wow, there are not enough box jokes here. If there is one more thing I need is another box joke (patiently waiting for a box joke.)

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

"Virtue signaling is not virtue.
Athens signaled their virtues and murdered Socrates." Bubba Satori

I think Jobs sincerely believed in this stuff.

Cook? I'm way more skeptical.

Seriously though, the list of what's all in the box doesn't at all explain why it's so huge.

 

[hajime]

Looks like a box I saw in CSI awhile ago.

 

[ninecows]

The are just the ones that sit behind me in my office on Zoom calls. there are more on the 2 shelves below. My wife for Christmas got me those Apple Park prints on the wall which I LOVE.

All of the computer boxes are in the garage and they're all in their respective cardboard boxes. All of the iPhone boxes have the iPhones in them including a gen 1 iPhone. I have some of the old iPads but not all and then I have every Apple Watch "series" box including the Series 0 space black w/ link bracelet (bottom right) and you can see how HUGE the gen 0 Apple Watch box was compared to toda.

Apple loves you

 

[crsh1976]

I somehow doubt we'll get a zero carbon footprint speech concerning the AVP.

 

[Lioness~]

Apple are going insecure.
Need to blow up the box to at least give the customer a good box.

All other products have fitting boxes without empty space. It’s really odd around these scubas.

 

[deebinem]

But it does help people to feel better.

Does it though? Typically, when I complain, my partner does not feel better which leads to me not feeling better.

 

[nevesis]

Zero chance the box is as big as the rendering shows. No way.

 

[sjperformance]

Taking the radio flyer for pick up.

 

[Timo_Existencia]

I don't believe this will really be the box. It's just way too big. And non-descript.

Perhaps this was a box that they used to ship multiple demo units to a store for employee trainings.

 

[ShadowJade]

Zero chance the box is as big as the rendering shows. No way.

And could easily be marketing material.

 

[jaw04005]

I do not want to bash the Vision Pro, it may be an awesome product. But the contents of the box just does not scream Apple "it just works": Solo Knit Band, a Dual Loop Band, a Light Seal, two Light Seal cushions, a cover, an external battery pack, a USB-C charging cable, a power adapter, a polishing cloth, and the Vision Pro headset itself. Plus you may need Zeiss lenses.
Compare that to an iPod plus headphones, an iMac all-in-on computer, an iPad tablet, or an iPhone that you used with only your finger (a *key* feature when it came out).

You didn't buy the first iPhone, did you?

 

[OrenLindsey]

That's almost the size of the Mac Pro box (Apple's biggest product box)