The single button mouse still technically exists in the magic mouse. That makes it somewhat ridiculous. And no, it's not a real right click if you have to lift your other finger to do it.
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Apple Released the First iMac 25 Years Ago Today
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I never owned it but still keep brand t-shirt with this pic
Those may have been options but from my memory, it would freeze and the only way to reset was to physically unplug the unit and plug it back in. And it happened often.
Yes, these are more cynical times and less brighter days, and the current generic-looking iMac design is a reflection of that.
Back then, I got all my Macs/hardware at Mac Warehouse. And although the Graphite iMac— along with all its brothers/sisters, were the most gorgeous colorway, and the new crystal-clear casing was stunning, there were also the hideous “Flower Power”, “Dalmatian”, and some tie-dye mess, etc etc that really signaled the exhausting, excess of the line… Yes, I get that they were “fun”, but still hideous AF LOL The “snow” era couldn’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned, ushering in the most gorgeous, clean, understated palette-cleanser, and stills striking designs in hardware and the mosts solid, reliable OS: The epitome of form meets function. And, the supreme height of creative and commercial collaboration between Steve and Jon. (…Really regret not snatching up that Apple book…)
The round mouse was actually perfect for my mom?
And, the round mouse is a perfect design in every way compared to any rechargeable mouse that you can't use while charging it because the charge port is on the BOTTOM? SMFH... You'd think that they'd have found a way to add MagSafe charging to the mouse by now and a MagSafe mouse pad that could charge it while still being used????
Sigh.
It’s just outright laziness on Apple’s part to not bother innovating on the mouse.
Drawbacks of current day Apple products seem a result of just adamancy simply because they can get away with it, rather than investing the resources to produce better user-friendly versions. Whereas the drawbacks of certain product designs of the Steve Job era genuinely seems to be him adamantly (or stubbornly) standing by his preferences. And maybe it’s my weird obsession with design, but I’ve always prefer the Apple mouse— from the puck-version to the current insole-version, to any other more ergonomic mice. Having used the Wacom Intuos Pros for a long time now, I still prefer Apple’s mouse over Wacom’s more robust version that would come with some of their tablets.
But thank goodness the puck didn’t last LOL I still remember the endless choices from third-party companies offering their versions of more ergonomically-mouse— and all in the iMac flavors… but they always looked so cheap. I’ve saved old issues of MacAddict, where even their content were filled ith these third-party suggestions. I still remember looking at Mac Warehouse catalogues, where you could order all these mice, all in Bondi colorway. And thinking; my god-- they looked cheap.
Drawbacks of current day Apple products seem a result of just adamancy simply because they can get away with it, rather than investing the resources to produce better user-friendly versions. Whereas the drawbacks of certain product designs of the Steve Job era genuinely seems to be him adamantly (or stubbornly) standing by his preferences. And maybe it’s my weird obsession with design, but I’ve always prefer the Apple mouse— from the puck-version to the current insole-version, to any other more ergonomic mice. Having used the Wacom Intuos Pros for a long time now, I still prefer Apple’s mouse over Wacom’s more robust version that would come with some of their tablets.
But thank goodness the puck didn’t last LOL I still remember the endless choices from third-party companies offering their versions of more ergonomically-mouse— and all in the iMac flavors… but they always looked so cheap. I’ve saved old issues of MacAddict, where even their content were filled ith these third-party suggestions. I still remember looking at Mac Warehouse catalogues, where you could order all these mice, all in Bondi colorway. And thinking; my god-- they looked cheap.
Imaginary brain wanking. None of that happened. Tim Cook was Steve Jobs personally chosen successor. Jobs specifically told Cook to run the company his own way and never try to duplicate what Jobs might think. Cook made into a 3 Trillion (the very first) dollar company. If you don’t like the way Cook is running the company, blame Steve Jobs. 😮💨
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It is ridiculous Apple got rid of the larger iMac...hopefully it is coming back. I moved on to the Mac Studio plus two Studio Displays, but I have several family members that would upgrade their 27" iMacs but there is no product that fills that space. A Mini + Studio Display is too expensive. They do not need a pro iMac as that space is filled already, and pro's don't need all in ones really.
So?
All this means is that different people are needed at different points in a company history. Jobs was right for his era, but he would have been a disaster for the Cook era.
What those haters don’t want to accept and acknowledge is that Tim Cook’s skill set is more suited to run Apple right now than if Steve was still around. Even when Steve was around, Cook was the man running the company behind close doors. Steve mostly focus on products while Cook ran the business day to day. Cook has been running Apple a lot longer than people acknowledge.
Cook even told Sheryl Sandberg the same when she called Cook for some advice, he told her to focus on whatever Mark Z. was weak at or hated to do.
You could enable virtual memory in classic MacOS. Then you could get more memory.
True, but some apps wouldn’t run with virtual memory enabled. It also took up a lot of disk space and slowed things down a lot.
Fact is Mac OS 8 needed AT LEAST 64 mb ram to run well and they shipped a computer with only 32
Sound familiar?
Never happened once during the year I owned one. It appears MMDV (My Mileage Did Vary
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Never happened once during the year I owned one. It appears MMDV (My Mileage Did Vary
My roommate had one it gave them a lot of trouble.
I seem to recall it being a pretty common issue
Not quite true. Mac OS 9 needed 64mb. OS8 could manage with 32, though it wouldn't be great.True, but some apps wouldn’t run with virtual memory enabled. It also took up a lot of disk space and slowed things down a lot.
Fact is Mac OS 8 needed AT LEAST 64 mb ram to run well and they shipped a computer with only 32
Sound familiar?
Fair enough. It could technically run on 32, but it wasn’t great
Wasn’t an issue for me, but I was an early adopter. Not many friends or family of mine bought the 1st iPhone. 😢
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God I know. I bought a PowerBook around that time. Because I hate myself I just did the math on what would have happened if I'd had the foresight to buy stock instead.
Adjusting for splits, AAPL was ~40¢ a share back then according to Yahoo Finance. So that $2200 I blew on that laptop would have bought me ~5750 shares. That's... I can't bring myself to type it... 😭
Ah, enough to buy a studio living space in SF… cool! 😉