The Evolution of iMac (Apple's First iProduct) - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk

fun fact only the late and mid 2009s look like that the early still look like the 2007 macs source: I have a early 2009 mac

how can the imac be aircooled when there is no fan

The iMac was revealed on my birthday 😊😊😊

Almost 2 years out and we’re still waiting for that “even bigger Apple silicon iMac with much faster processors” 😢

For a while I worked on a G3. It wasn't that pleasent of an experince. Look the unit (bought used) and it stopped working.

Great video that brings Great memories. Thanks Ken!

I have a imac g3 Dv se running macos 9 but now running 9.2.2. Struggling to find out how to get tiger on it

Evolution of apple products: 1980 - $1000 , $1981 - $1100 ... 2023 - $4000 ... "Should we change the spec?" , "Nah"

Wow … the og iMac is 5 days older than me😅😅

Great video Ken. It is nice to see the history of things, some of us has used for ages. Thanks! Love it. Consider changing perspective from the computer to a workflow or process. Like working with videos, photos etc. What was the workflow on the first iMac compared to now, including distributing your end product. I started in 1989 with an IICX and a 21" black white monitor, DTP was new and changed everything in the graphics- and advertising industry, almost over night. From 1987 to 1991, while I was under education, we went from 20k$ systems (CR Tonic 360) to 5-7k$. A professional graphics workstation (now including video editing) is still around the same price level. Productivity from the Linotype workstation to the Mac was 4x in the first try. NOT including any graphics at all. The CR Tonic 360 had print capability, so the text output was on photographic paper, that had to be developed in the darkroom. Only text. To get the text and graphics out of the Mac in high quality, you needed something like a Postscript RIP Linotronic 300 / 2400 DPI. So sitting with a Mac working with Pagemaker, QuarkXPress , Freehand, Illustrator etc. was like taking a huge step into the future - in one giant go. There was a time before DTP and a time after, for sure. And the same happened to the photo- and video production industry. I actually bought a 2020 iMac 27 from a video production company. They are now working on Macbook Pros.

Steve Jobs the devil..Steve Jobs the devil..make a dalmatian I-Comp? You bet that he will! Wears a turtle's neck and hates on poor old...Biiiiill..Steve Jobs..is a..devil!

It's really cool how well preserved the Mac's are!

I think the big thing that was cool about the g4 design was the range of motion for the monitor, they should have kept that aspect of it

The newest version of the iMac has only two problems. The currently only available version is too small and with its white frame and notch it’s hideously ugly. The first iMac that I personally couldn’t stand to look upon for more than a view minutes.

I’m still waiting for the 27” Apple silicon iMac 😒

is imac an all in one
short answer: yes
long answer yes but no cuz external power supply

Steve Jobs made this when he returned to apple!

The Macintosh Performa "All-in-One" had a similar design language to the iMac and predates the iMacs. These were almost used in schools

Very awesome recap, thanks so much! But it's still kinda crazy to me how apple still hasn't release a new 27 or larger iMac. From all the product lines I was sure the Macbook Air and the iMac would go on and on and on. They could bring the bigger iMacs back at any time of course, but who knows. I think they rather sell the Mac Mini or Studio and a Studio Display at the moment ^^

I hate Apple, but damn! The latest iMac (The teal one) looks hella cool!

Crapple will be crapple. Overpriced, underpowered, aluminum crap.

This video makes me want an iMac, darnit.

The bigger iMac that never came lol

I don't know why but the new iMac models are a bit underpowered, more than the Mac Mini and have a high price tag. Why is it so much more expensive than a Mac Mini and monitor🤨

You could say that the g3 mouse was pucking weird

“Can’t wait for the future of iMac”
Apple only releasing a chip refresh after 2 years and changes nothing more

The iMac came out in the period where everyone was obsessed with see-thru colored tech like the Nintendo N64.

Coolio man! : )

He called it MacMan for Pac-Man

I have the line green one but the mouse stopped working

I remember when my school switched from Performas to iMacs

I used the original imac in my elementary school days. Someone donated handfull of units to our school I think it was an office that have been closed by the company. We have used the computers to learn how to use well... Computer... It was different than the windows computers we had back then for sure... It was different and awsome in any ways.

Ranking all iMac designs
1. iMac G4
2. iMac G3
3. eMac
4. iMac G5
6. Apple Silicon iMac
7. Intel iMac

In my opinion the iMac G4 and iMac G3 are the two best looking computers ever made.

27” iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro no longer in production (or when M2 np longer available), but the best products always get booted at some point. Guess it is miniature economy. E.g. remember laptops were once weak now tablets surpassing sales of laptops? Desktop computing may be on the decline now. Gone by 2030, very good chance. You can’t upgrade these products to control the third-party market from unauthorized repair DIYers.

At least they didn't name it the "Performa G3"

Quack

I search for the podcast, it's says last chapter was from 2021 on Spotify, is that correct? thanks

Used to have the 2007 iMac. Nostalgia hitting hard atm

I owned the 2nd version of the original iMac with red shell (when they released all the colors + black/white SE models)...my color foreshadowed my political affiliations after College attempted to brainwash me in the early 2000s haha. I would've actually gotten the SE models, but they were both more expensive; it was extra RAM and faster processing if I'm not mistaken. The 2nd generation I only saw was during Community College (Fullerton College) in the computer lab for music recording/graphic design. Even though I started out with a Macintosh LC model (the one with the flat "tower" that the 13" CRT sat on). I switched to PC in 1996 and had an HP and a Compaq with Pentium 2/3, respectively. All my friends had the famous white/black MacBook from like 2006-2008, but Notebooks were expensive back then, especially Apple...or so it seemed, despite the fact I swear they were $800, and the same Intel Core 2 Duo PC Notebooks were like $999.99-1,799.99. I was a Supervisor at Best Buy (this was before being promoted right after graduating to a Mgr.) and my good friend Robert was the Manager at the time...we got in huge trouble for marking down all the (HP's/Sony's mostly) that were majority Core 2 Duos with various configuration processors. Ya, selling those even for half of the price we sold them for normally, was going to a higher benefit to the overall store, because Junk-Out/Write Offs couldn't yield the customer satisfaction to, repeat business/exposure, to making 200 dollars in a tax write-off that would just create a complete waste. This was before books were 'cooked' regularly by large companies, so I had to literally create a report including mathematical equations based off P&L information to show we didn't lose thousands in money by selling them that way and also scientific analysis on the Psychology of benefits overall to the store as a secondary reasoning to cover us. On a side note, Best Buy was my favorite job during the entirety of college, but things like that blew my mind. It all came full circle when I was immediately made a Manager right after college (so I could work 60 hours a week) and was given the honor of GOing a large volume store and had even more flights to corporate to talk with the CEO.

Unfortunately, during my 6-year college stint from 2002-2008, regardless of being the Supervisor of that grouped 3 departments grouped as "Product Process" (Best Buy) concurrently, this was bad timing for me, even as making good money, since I was paying for CSUF tuition myself. Paying for my full time CSUF, while working 40-50 hours a week, in addition to my rent at my Condo with friends, and everything else that goes along with being a Young Adult made it so I couldn't get a Core 2 Duo HP, like I really wanted for latter my 2 year stint as a senior (lost my Mom at 25, it broke me). I ended up having to grab a horrendous Sony Vaio that was a 17" brick that featured a Pentium D (not at all optimized for battery/laptop efficiency), which made it one of the original Desktop replacement; unfortunately, the only one I could actually afford at $360 ($720 originally)...of course, the processor was a failure by Intel since no notebook of the time could handle the voltage/manage the battery efficiently with a Dual-Core Pentium 4 based architectured chip in a a portable device. Other major issues included it being 11 lbs in a backpack stuffed with a BioChem, Cognitive Psych, Statistics 2, and I/O Psych books was insanity. Even in class, regardless, there were only on average 5-7 other people who had Notebooks (no iPads & before notebooks were truly affordable). Let me just say, you could be 'rich' in Orange County, but there were tiers of that, even. Anyways, sorry for the rant, but I just want to blow kids' minds by letting them know that there was a point at which we mostly wrote down notes. Even with all kids growing up with modern technology, there is a substantial difference between physical books, tangibly writing down notes/study guides, and in-person interactions. It's a psychological thing, you will remember anything you had wrote incomparably than typed, holding a tangible book (as opposed to a screen reading) also is incomparably better for learning, and human interaction (face-to-face) is the only way to become a social being, which the past 1 1/2 generations have mostly become introverts as a result. I worry about these Gen-Z kids (and even 2nd half millennials), this is what they know, and more and more, their succumbing to mental illness; this is due to the inherent biological necessity for human interaction (directly).

When Jobs didn't like an idea at first usually meant that he couldn't accept someone else conmig with a better idea than him. It's quite typical narcissistic behavior

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