It’s kind of a shame the designs basically just kept being a refined iMac G5 style, the changes between G3->G4->G5 were really cool at the time (even if G4 is the best since you can actually adjust the height of the screen). I’m glad they at least brought some fun back to the iMac with the M1 colors.
I mean, how else would you design a screen with computer inside. Nowadays most smart TVs are the same but with weaker boards.
I remember the G4 with great fondness; my dad’s G4 was what I did homework and gamed on as a highschooler, and then when he retired it I brought it to college and it served as our living room ‘jukebox’ for another five years.
I loved the commercial of the guy head booping and the computer did the same moves then he would stick his tongue out and the dvd tray would pop out!
You can not understate how important the iMac was to Steve Jobs’ plan to save Apple.
The G4 is in my opinion the coolest computer ever designed. I just love it, it still looks so futuristic.
The Intel white core 2 duo was my first Mac, I saved up for a whole month making minimum wage to get it and I used the hell out of that computer. I started and ran two small businesses from it and made enough selling websites (mostly made in Flash, that era of the web was crazy fun) to pay for my university. My parents got rid of it while I was studying and it was a bummer, I lost thousands of photos that I would love to look back on.
It still brings back great memories seeing pictures of it. The iMac is such a wonderful machine.
I know the new colourful ones aren’t to everyone’s taste, but they’re my favourite after the G4 and G3 (you just can’t beat the classic design).
