iMac Anniversary
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krpalmerAs if to show a smidgen of range to my interests, I'm not just keeping track of what Star Wars movies have significant anniversaries this year. I also know that this is the tenth year since the first iMac was introduced, and on seeing a note that today marks the anniversary of its announcement, I soon had my thoughts in order.
I can remember being at home on break from university when my brother returned from high school telling me in a pleased way that there was a big announcement on the Apple web site. I checked it out, and was interested to see a blue and white gumdrop-like computer pictured. There were, of course, people who dismissed the whole thing as just "style over substance," but I suppose we Macintosh users were still hungry for good news, and the iMac's specifications weren't all that low-end either. Over the summer, I made some money on a shingling job and intended to spend it getting a better computer than my Performa 5200, and I suppose that was as close as I came to buying one of the original iMacs... but in the end, I decided that I could make use of the "legacy ports" on the bulkier and heavier Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one. Things might have been different all the same on hearing that my university's computer store had sold out of those models... except for their "demonstration model," which I got a slight discount on. In any case, I suppose I did wonder about the original iMac's CD-ROM drive, which popped the lens out along with its loading tray. Some years later, after Apple had run through all the colours of the rainbow and was moving on to white plastic (itself now replaced by aluminum), I did get the refined version of the gumdrop-like iMac, in grey and white. I didn't stop there, of course.
I can remember being at home on break from university when my brother returned from high school telling me in a pleased way that there was a big announcement on the Apple web site. I checked it out, and was interested to see a blue and white gumdrop-like computer pictured. There were, of course, people who dismissed the whole thing as just "style over substance," but I suppose we Macintosh users were still hungry for good news, and the iMac's specifications weren't all that low-end either. Over the summer, I made some money on a shingling job and intended to spend it getting a better computer than my Performa 5200, and I suppose that was as close as I came to buying one of the original iMacs... but in the end, I decided that I could make use of the "legacy ports" on the bulkier and heavier Power Macintosh G3 All-in-one. Things might have been different all the same on hearing that my university's computer store had sold out of those models... except for their "demonstration model," which I got a slight discount on. In any case, I suppose I did wonder about the original iMac's CD-ROM drive, which popped the lens out along with its loading tray. Some years later, after Apple had run through all the colours of the rainbow and was moving on to white plastic (itself now replaced by aluminum), I did get the refined version of the gumdrop-like iMac, in grey and white. I didn't stop there, of course.
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Date: 2008-05-07 01:47 am (UTC)All hail Steve Jobs!
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