Apple iMac 2002

mac or pc? - Advantages: macs are easy to use, well built, hardly crash - Disadvantages: more expensive, see my review!, power button askward to reach

When the iMac arrived at work, I was on a break, in the middle of reading an article on thinking outside the square … what better example could I have had, than to set up and demo the new iMac in my office. This is one computer that shows, designers (especially those at Apple) are now thinking firmly outside the square. For the last few years computer manufactures have been slowly moving away from the beige box, into more creative systems. Apple are on the leading edge of this move. The first thing people say, "Oh that's a Pixar Apple", due to its striking resemblance to a certain dancing lamp. The solid white base, gleaming ...

The original iMac was released in 1998 and was credited with saving Apple from bankruptcy. It was a revolution that no-one expected, it looked radically different from any computer up to that day and had no ‘legacy’ ports but instead had the (then) not widely adopted USB interface. The iMac went from strength to strength; indeed Apple claimed that an iMac was sold every 15 seconds somewhere in the World. However despite numerous (relatively minor updates) the design never changed considerably and consumers began to get bored (despite the Flower Power and Dalmatian Blue…) and sails flagged. However January saw the release of the widely rumoured ...