I always found this picture of Steve Jobs in his home office fascinating

Genelec is a speaker brand isn't?

(Something like this https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?attachmen...)

To answer the post's questions:

1. The tiny "Mac Pro" is a scaled-down mock up of the Power Macintosh G5, which was the Mac Pro of it's time. There's a video of Jobs showing it off somewhere. Or maybe it was in the Isaacson book and my memory is too vivid. Anyway, it's not a computer, let alone a functional one.

2. The "UPS" is an older Genelec audio speaker. One cable is for AC power and the other cable is for audio. It has the Genelec logo on the back. There are other photos of Jobs' office from the other side that show it's clearly a speaker. And there's another speaker on the other side of his monitor, close to the wall.

3. On the bookshelf are various tinctures and aromatherapy bottles. This has been mentioned somewhere -- probably the Isaacson book, again. Jobs was really into homeopathic medicine.

4. Bonus answer: The little cylinder mounted at the top of Jobs' monitor is an iSight camera, which was ahead of it's time. It had really good video quality and plugged into the Firewire port on the Mac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight

Edit: grammar.

Just like people holding box-like things to their ear in photos from 1910 are not showing someone with an early iPhone, things in Jobs' office from long ago are not always Vision Pro cameras or whatever.

We're just projecting.

That "mini Mac Pro" thing (next to the Genelec speaker) could also be an external drive bay -- Macsales/OWS sold a silver one for years IIRC -- they now sell an SSD version of it that's not silver anymore: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB3F81S128/ -- and I think the form factor may have shifted a bit.

I would wager that the little bottles of liquid are tinctures.

the mini power mac is just a scale model, nothing functional

the other thing is a speaker, you can see the other one in a different angle

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So the thing I find most interesting is how "cluttered" his office appears to be. Like it looks a lot like my cluttered office. (I have no room to judge). I'm not a big Steve Jobs superfan or anything, but his public persona was always so groomed his (and Apple's) brand is always so curated, I kind of half thought his office would reflect that. But hey, I'm glad to see he worked in an office that was just as cluttered as mine!

The device on the left is a studio monitor (speaker), probably there's a near-identical one on the left side of his display.

The other one I'd think is a scale model of a Power Mac G5. It matches the general layout but it's too small to be a real one. It's also not connected to anything, and I think it's being used as a bookstand.

It would also appear that the mini Mac Pro isn't connected to anything, so it's probably just a scale model?

He was likely test-driving early versions of Apple products

> in the left segment of the bookshelf, there are many small bottles of liquid drops. What were they for?

They look like homeopathic liquids to me, which was something he was into.

You mean Steve was doing remote work? I thought that wasn’t possible to do.