{"id":31164,"date":"2020-12-30T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31164"},"modified":"2020-12-30T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:37:43","slug":"20-macs-for-2020-1-imac-g3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/30\/20-macs-for-2020-1-imac-g3\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Macs for 2020: #1 &#x2013; iMac G3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2020\/12\/20-macs-for-2020-1-imac-g3\/\">Jason Snell<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25566642\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2020\/12\/20-macs-for-2020-1-imac-g3\/\"><p>But Mac OS X wouldn&rsquo;t ship for another two years, and it would be a painful years-long transition away from the classic Mac OS. In the meantime Apple needed to start making money again, needed that infusion of cash that would allow Jobs to turn over the Mac product line and let Mac OS X come to fruition. Sure, what it really needed was stability, but a hit wouldn&rsquo;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>And a hit is exactly what Apple got.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>People who didn&rsquo;t live through it might not believe it, but the iMac took the product-design world by storm. Over the next few years, there would be very few consumer electronic products that had not offered a special, iMac-inspired translucent plastic edition. It started with USB accessories for the iMac, as printer and floppy-disk vendors quickly placed orders for translucent colored plastic pieces to replace their opaque beige ones. But it just kept going and going. Telephones. Toys. And my personal favorite, the George Foreman iGrill.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The iMac wasn&rsquo;t made to impress the Mac&rsquo;s installed base. Hard-core Mac users criticized the lack of a floppy drive and familiar ports, but also the 233MHz PowerPC G3 processor, which was slower than other G3s. But it was $1299&mdash;it was aggressively priced for a general consumer audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My recollection is that the processor was considered very fast compared with the Power Mac 5400 and Performas of the day. But I\/O via USB 1 was really slow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell (Hacker News): But Mac OS X wouldn&rsquo;t ship for another two years, and it would be a painful years-long transition away from the classic Mac OS. In the meantime Apple needed to start making money again, needed that infusion of cash that would allow Jobs to turn over the Mac product line and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-30T21:37:46Z","apple_news_api_id":"408b1023-83dd-42bc-b5f5-1b431bea71e1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-12-30T21:37:46Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQIsQI4PdQry19RtDG-px4Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,1297,30,924],"class_list":["post-31164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-imac","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-9"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31165,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31164\/revisions\/31165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}