IDEO worked with Apple's in-house design staff to incorporate audio and video features into this distinctive display, maximizing the telecommunications and speech technologies of the Quadra and Power PC product family.

IDEO and Apple designers created a speaker "chin" area to accentuate the unit's stereo sound quality, and a tilt/swivel mechanism to facilitate monitor positioning. A proprietary isolated acoustic chamber in the bottom cavity of the monitor raises the sound quality of the relatively low-cost speakers to a level comparable with that of $200 speakers.