Goodbye to the classic Apple iMac

bbcnews.com ^ | march-31-2003 | By Mark Ward BBC News online technology correspondent

[green team 1999]

good bye apple,al gore will sink the company.

[jbstrick]

this is NOT current events. The the "new" imac in the picture has been out well over a year?

Stupid hit piece.

[longtermmemmory]

apple will always be a nich machine. You could even call it a boutique computer. Algore has nothing to do with apple's limitations. In everyday SMALL business, we use IBM/Windows machines. Small business does not want work arounds, software is made to run on windows. If I grow or my business has a need, that need WILL be filled with a windows software package; I might be lucky to find it in apple. I know its a old complaint but its still valid.

[mercy]

Funny ... I always thought of the i-mac as a joke. A joke almost as funny as Apple itself. Only a fool cares what a good tool looks like. I have a flat screen and a box under the desk where I can't see it. I have wireless everything. Now that's cool. Stupid liberals. (oh yeah ... my monitor is also a tv with picture in picture. Too cool.)

[tubebender]

Yahoo reported today that Agore got 30,000 stock options for joining the board. My Granddaughter is still using the Bondi Blue (model A) she got in 1998.

[Young Werther]

Notice that in the Movie Zoolander the IMac was unfathonable! Apple II and IIIs were workhorses. Then Lisa showed promise but was unable to deliver as were the first MACS! When a company, Apple, goes from 80+ percent market share to where they are today, boutique is a generous appleation!

[HAL9000]

It's current news. Apple continued selling the older G3-based iMac even after the G4-based flatscreen Mac was introduced - until a week or two ago.

The G3 iMac was a good, economical model for schools, but the eMac is better.

[Illbay]

The iMac is now a "classic"? Sheesh, that really dates me!

I still think of that little box with the single floppy drive and the greyscale screen as the "classic" Mac.

Good grief, the iMac just came out LAST YEAR!

Er, didn't it?

[Michael Barnes]

Apple will save itself by moving it's OS to x86. Which is well within their means considering their new core is based on an OS that already runs on such. Apple is gonna kill itself just like sun will. They depend too much on Hardware.

Did anyone else hear about Sun going to Linux and eventually sunsetting their SVR4 offering? Ludicrous IMO. Sun's hardware, just like Apple's, can't stand up to the rest of the industry.

[BlazingArizona]

this is NOT current events. The the "new" imac in the picture has been out well over a year?

I'm writing this on one of the "new new" iMacs, vintage last month: 1G processor, 1G RAM. While it runs as the Unix server on my office LAN, I can use its great graphic interface.

[TopQuark]

Wow! What streangth of emotions! Are you a member of the Apple Cult?

[passionfruit]

I'm sitting here in the familiar glow of my iMac. I love this little machine and all those that preceded it. We got our first mac when it was one of the first Macintoshes off the assembly line.

I'm just sick that Steve jobs would politicize Apple by inserting a nincompoop like Al Gore on the Board of Directors. Now I can't buy any more Macs. Alas!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Replacing the i-Mac with the i-Gore?

[green team 1999]

Replacing the i-Mac with the i-Gore?
well gore sure looks like a robot.

[TheBattman]

No need for any "flavor" of iMac here - a power user. I use the G4 tower - Dual 1Ghz G4 Processors, Superdrive (DVD-R + CDRW, Yamaha CDRW, 1GB ram, ATI Radeon 9000Pro):

I do use a Dell UltraSharp 1800FP LCD monitor, though -if anyone cares...hehehe.

[Michael Barnes]

BLASPHEMY! UNIX SERVER and GRAPHIC INTERFACE should NEVER be in the same sentance. Now, please go flog yourself 100 times while repeating I will never stray from the CLI.

;-)

[jbstrick]

I have three PC's and one BSD box.

[Michael Barnes]

Bah....

heheheh..I know..who has millions lying around?

[snooker]

dittos. I hate to say I have an apple, never again.

[Cicero]

It reminds me of those old "streamlined" cars back in the 1930s.