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Eight ways the iMac changed computing
Macworld —
The iMac made an instant impression when Apple first unveiled it in May 1998 . But it didn’t start to really shake things up unitl it began to ship—which happened 10 years ago on August 15, 1998. Arguably the most influential desktop computer of the last decade, the original iMac’s specifications seem quaint by today’s standards. For $1,299, you came home with a 233MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 32MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a 15-inch built-in monitor, and stereo speakers—all in an amazingly stylish case. The Bondi blue wonder heralded the return of Steve Jobs as a visionary leader for Apple, and it halted Apple’s mid-1990s financial ...
Steve Jobs introduces the iMac...1998
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Wow. Ten years and the iMac has changed shape many times. But there is only one original. iMac shipped for the first time on August 15, 1998. This device is what signaled the return of Apple an the emergence of Jonathan Ive's designs that would dominate Apple's revolutionary harware for the next decade.
Those specs seem pretty paultry now but were impressive at the time. What is more impressive is that I know more than one person who still uses one of these ten year old machines... ...
Happy Birthday, iMac
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: iMac, Apple, Apple History Yes, it's time once again to say, "Happy Birthday" to our old friend, iMac. Hard to believe the iMac has been around for 10 years today. Apple transitioned the "consumer device," as Steve called at its introduction, into something more of an icon of computer design. Above is a commercial for the iMac G3 which shipped in Lime, Grape, Blueberry, Tangerine, and Strawberry and featured the song "She's a Rainbow" by the Rolling Stones. The specs for ...
The iMac turns 10 today
Apple Gazette —
Let’s travel back in time to a far away land. A land where 10% of homes in Silicon Valley had home networks. A time when a 4 GB hard drive and a 15 inch display were all you’d ever want.
It was only 10 years ago (and its amazing how far we’ve come in that time) and Steve Jobs was introducing the iMac to the world. Today is the 10th birthday for the machine, and it has had an amazing evolution over the past decade. Moving from the blueberry colored 40lb bubble in the video above, to the slick 30 inch display below.
When you see how this has ...
The iMac celebrates 10 years (is there a "blue plastic" anniversary?)
MacUser —
Happy birthday to blue, happy birthday to blue, happy birthday dear iMaaaaaaaaaac, happy birthday to blue. Hard as it may be to believe, ten years ago today, the first iMac began shipping into customers’ hands everywhere.
A lot’s happened in the past ten years: we’ve been through a software transition, a hardware transition, the birth of the iPod, the iPhone, and the iMac itself has gone through two more design evolutions. But let us cast ourselves back, adrift in time, to that more innocent day.
For a kick, sit back and enjoy this seven minute video of Steve Jobs introducing the original ...
10 - iPhon.fr : l'iPhone en France
iPhone Topsites - All Sites —
Qui dit iPhone dit forcément Apple. Alors bien évidemment nous ne pourrons nous empêcher de parler de l'iMac. L'actuel modèle allez-vous me dire mais non ! Le tout premier modèle . Il a été mis sur le marché il y a dix ans . Et bien évidemment il n'y a qu'Apple pour sortir des produits un jour férié ;)
What Was Steve Jobs' Most Important Macworld Keynote?
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
What Was Steve Jobs' Most Important Macworld Keynote? Posted by: Peter Burrows on December 16 I suppose you’ve got to go with the first “Stevenote” , when a suit-and-tie wearing Jobs introduced the Mac in 1983. I wasn’t there, but people who were say it was the greatest tech-related theater they’ve experienced. It certainly set the blueprint for thousands of product intros by others(almost all of them pale imitations) that followed. For me personally, though, it’s hard to beat Jobs’ bravura performance upon retaking the helm in 1997. I hadn’t seen a Jobs keynote at that point. This one was remarkable for the many critical missions it ...
The Top 8 Stevenote Moments
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
jobs Whether he’s telling us what mere mortals do and don’t need, assuring us that whatever he’s just showed us is “un-bel-liev-able,” or making the rare flub on stage, Apple’s CEO always puts on one hell of a show. In honor of what appears to be the end of an era with yesterday’s announcement that Steve’s Macworld keynotes have come to an end, here’s a tribute to some of the last quarter century’s greatest Stevenotes. Apple Sales Event, Fall 1983 Flushed with pride and wearing a huge grin, Steve tells the crowd that Apple is the only force that can ensure our future freedom from a drab IBM-dominated world, and previews the infamous1984 ...
What Was Steve Jobs' Most Important Macworld Keynote?
MacBytes.com —
What Was Steve Jobs' Most Important Macworld Keynote? Posted by: Peter Burrows on December 16 I suppose you’ve got to go with the first “Stevenote” , when a suit-and-tie wearing Jobs introduced the Mac in 1983. I wasn’t there, but people who were say it was the greatest tech-related theater they’ve experienced. It certainly set the blueprint for thousands of product intros by others(almost all of them pale imitations) that followed. UPDATE: This actually wasn’t a MacWorld, which should have been obvious to me when I first posted. This event, as reader David Needle reminded me, was an Apple event at De Anza college. For me personally, though, it’s ...
USB 3 test spec to be in Apple's hands by June
AppleInsider —
By Zach Spear and Prince McLean Published: 04:00 PM EST A new USB standard that would bump data throughput to 5Gbps is slated to arrive as a test specification in June, with a possible final release ready for Apple adoption by next year. Agilent Technologies has announced at a recent Tokyo seminar that Test Specification 1.0 of the new USB standard, known as USB 3.0, will be released to manufacturers by the end of June. After the release, compatibility tests for transmitting and receiving circuits will begin, and the USB Implementers Forum Inc. (USB-IF) will hold a compliance workshop at the end of this year to make the final tweaks. "USB ...
Apple plans Mighty Mouse makeover
AppleInsider —
By Prince McLean and Kasper Jade Published: 07:00 AM EST Twenty five years after introducing the world to mouse-based computing, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is now hoping to deliver significant advances to the input device by applying the company's extensive research and development in multitouch technologies, AppleInsider has learned. Apple's latest twist on the venerable mouse could arrive as early as this year, possibly in conjunction with the imminent release of new iMacs, the company's flagship desktop computer. Existing iMacs are reported to be in short supply in many locations, according to people familiar with Apple's ...
Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears [Apple]
Gizmodo —
The iMac revived Apple after a decade of sickly malaise. The name is so obviously iconic. So it's shocking that Steve Jobs hated it and wanted to call it something so awful it would "curdle your blood." That's according to the man who named it, Ken Segall, who talked to Leander at Cult of Mac. He worked at Apple's agency TBWA\Chiat\Day, and not only christened the iMac, but was the man behind Apple's pitch-perfect "Think Different" campaign. It's ironic that Segall, who knew iMac was the perfect name and pitched it to Jobs over and over after being rejected again and again, thought that the computer itself ...
