iMac unveil...

[speg]

.... Original iMac unveiled in 1998!

Hehe, in honor of the upcoming iMac refresh, take a look at the original unveiled in 1998! USB!! NETWORKING. Woo.

 

[sindows]

Meh, I'm looking forwards to the redesigned polycarbonate Macbooks. However its hard to believe 1998 was only 11 years ago...

 

[mmntech]

A decade later... and Apple still can't build a usable mouse.

I remember we had the humpback iMacs in highschool around 2000/2001 for our AV class. I think it even had Final Cut running on it. My first introduction to digital video. Back then the school had one consumer grade DV camcorder that still used tapes. The rest of the cameras were VHS and had to be ingested in real time. Now I've moved to XDCAM but I'm still using iMacs for editing.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: mmntech
A decade later... and Apple still can't build a usable mouse.

They do, however, make a pretty decent trackpad.

 

[Tyranicus]

"It's the most wonderful mouse you've ever used." I'm going to go ahead and disagree with that. 😛

It's weird to see Steve wearing a collared shirt and jacket.

 

[TheStu]

The iMac was the turning point, not just for Apple, but for the industry. 'You don't need beige boxes anymore?!'. Wider USB adoption (the fact that there are still high end $300 motherboards with PS/2 speaks volumes about the PC market), the push towards non-bland designs, and from the iMac spawned renewed interest in Apple, and now we have the iPhone, which is probably more powerful than that old iMac.

I mean, it took time for Dell and crew to move to something other than beige, I think my first non-beige Dell was purchased in mid 2000, right around the time XP was coming out, it was all black instead of beige. Or rather, putty I guess is the technical term.

Soon the new iMacs will come out, allegedly with a redesigned exterior, I wonder what we will have next.

I still say the desk lamp models are one of the best ones. The slabs that we have had since then are nice I suppose, but the desk lamp actually seemed to be trying something new.

 

[Tyranicus]

Originally posted by: TheStu
The iMac was the turning point, not just for Apple, but for the industry. 'You don't need beige boxes anymore?!'. Wider USB adoption (the fact that there are still high end $300 motherboards with PS/2 speaks volumes about the PC market), the push towards non-bland designs, and from the iMac spawned renewed interest in Apple, and now we have the iPhone, which is probably more powerful than that old iMac.

Yeah, the CPU in my iPhone is 2.5 times faster than the original G3 iMac. it has 8 times the RAM and storage capacity. 😛

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mmntech
A decade later... and Apple still can't build a usable mouse.

I remember we had the humpback iMacs in highschool around 2000/2001 for our AV class. I think it even had Final Cut running on it. My first introduction to digital video. Back then the school had one consumer grade DV camcorder that still used tapes. The rest of the cameras were VHS and had to be ingested in real time. Now I've moved to XDCAM but I'm still using iMacs for editing.

You don't understand. It was a secret ploy by Apple to jumpstart the USB peripheral surge. They knew that if they, Apple, made a crappy mouse, people would be forced to seek out alternatives, using USB on the new iMacs at the time, of course. Apple did the world a huge favor - this was a windfall event.

It's all a big conspiracy, I tell you :Q

 

[mmntech]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: mmntech
A decade later... and Apple still can't build a usable mouse.

I remember we had the humpback iMacs in highschool around 2000/2001 for our AV class. I think it even had Final Cut running on it. My first introduction to digital video. Back then the school had one consumer grade DV camcorder that still used tapes. The rest of the cameras were VHS and had to be ingested in real time. Now I've moved to XDCAM but I'm still using iMacs for editing.

You don't understand. It was a secret ploy by Apple to jumpstart the USB peripheral surge. They knew that if they, Apple, made a crappy mouse, people would be forced to seek out alternatives, using USB on the new iMacs at the time, of course. Apple did the world a huge favor - this was a windfall event.

It's all a big conspiracy, I tell you :Q

So I guess the "Mighty" Mouse is a conspiracy to get everyone to use Bluetooth. 😛

Either way, I'm so used to using the mult-itouch trackpad now, it seems so foreign to me using a Mac with a mouse.

 

[dwell]

I just got a new MacPro tower at work and the first thing I did was throw the mouse in my junk draw and replace it with a janky old Logitech.