A Fortieth Anniversary Macintosh

When rumours circulating for a while gained solidity and Apple began another great processor transition, my iMac was about five years old and the edges of its screen had turned sort of pink. The impression its backlight was wearing out was enough, combined with positive reports about the new “Apple silicon” chips elaborated upon from those in the “iDevices,” to raise thoughts of joining in the migration, just as I’d once moved from the 68030 to PowerPC and from the G4 to Intel. However, the thought I just sort of wanted to see that new hardware in person before putting money down had to face the thought I should refrain from anything so frivolous for public health reasons. A year later, the iMac itself made the processor transition and was repackaged in multiple colours to boot, but I still thought it would be healthiest to keep limiting “going out” to absolute necessities. When at last I worked up the resolve, or threw caution to the wind, to the point of stepping into an Apple Store, the iMac in particular wasn’t quite new any more. I kept waiting to see what would happen next, even though my own iMac had passed the point where new versions of macOS could be installed on it and the edges of its screen might have looked that much more worn.
( New rumours circulating )