Happy 10th, iMac
Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since my friend Matt got a friend to drive him to New Hampshire to buy a brand new fancypants iMac, but lo and behold, the iMac indeed turns 10 today.
Check out the awesome specs the original iMac had:
- 233 MHz PowerPC 750 (a.k.a. G3)
- 32 MB of PC-100 RAM (expandable to 256 MB)
- 4 GB EIDE hard drive
- 15″ CRT monitor w/ 1024×768 resolution, 2 MB video RAM
- 24x CD-ROM
- 56k modem
- 10/100baseT ethernet
- built in speakers
- 2 USB ports
- Mac OS 8.1
- 40 pounds
- no floppy drive
- translucent! you could see inside it! whoa!
The iMac also created, indirectly, a several-year period of time where absolutely everyone else had to make products that featured a translucent colored-and-clear plastic design. I don’t just mean computer/peripheral companies (the iMac-flavored printers were especially gross), but seriously everyone. I recall seeing a fake-Bondi Blue boom box once. I have a vague recollection of a iMac-styled coffee maker. The iMac look was everywhere.
And really, if the iMac never came out, we wouldn’t have iPods, iPhones and Apple TVs, and Apple probably would have been completely out of business about 7 years ago. So thanks for sticking around, Apple; I really love the MacBook Pro I got last week.
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