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By Christoph Dernbach. February 10, Apple Macintosh Share this: Twitter Facebook. Apple History. Computer History. March 22, Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Most Popular. About Mac-History. Load more. When Apple turned 20, it made the weirdest Mac ever. If you bought one, a man in a tuxedo would bring it to your house and set it up for you. With the iMac, Apple made its first computer for the internet. Its multi-colored, curved case was as good-looking as a computer had ever been, and came with a high-end modem and processor.
And it had USB ports. Two USB ports. After the remarkable success of the iMac, Apple shrunk the formula into the iBook. It was colorful, powerful, and thanks to an oddly over-promoted handle the 6. And did I mention it had a handle?
But the blue PowerMac G3, and then the G4, released later in , looked awesome. With a new, one-inch thick titanium body, a low-power chip, and a Apple finally moved the entirety of its all-in-one into its display with the iMac G5, as it added a bit G5 processor to the equation as well.
It came with displays as large as 20 inches, and the transparent white mouse and keyboard so many people still remember. Former Apple employee and current blogger Chuq Van Rospach called this model one of his favorite Macs of all time. It didn't work out so well after being introduced in October which, coincidentally or not, was around the time Apple's market share started to head south for a decade. Power Macintosh Introduced in , the Power Macintosh was the first Mac to use a PowerPC chip in the first historic processor architecture switch Apple would make in 25 years of the Mac.
It was designed as a high-end desktop to replace the Quadra and set the stage for a decade of computers designed around the PowerPC architecture. Apple eventually dropped the price more in line with the rest of the Macintosh lineup and sales picked up, but this computer appeared to be more about design than profit.
The multicolored design, introduction of USB ports, and emphasis on simplicity brought a lot of buzz back to Apple, and this model set the stage for the company's desktop computing design strategy that persists today. Power Macintosh G3 Blue and White Jobs' design influence was clearly being felt as the s came to a close, with this Power Macintosh G3 Blue and White replacing a very drab model of the same name as Apple's high-end desktop product.
The side of this machine swung down for easy access to the innards of the system. It resembles later student-laptop designs such as the XO Laptop and Intel's Classmate PC and came with integrated wireless networking, which would eventually become ubiquitous but was a rare thing in It had a huge following among many Mac fans but was plagued by faint lines on the exterior that some felt were cracks and others felt were blemishes.
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