Well that's stability I have never experienced with MacOS but yes it was in general far more stable than Windows and the whole ecosystem less polluted with bloatware or real malware. I actually enjoy (present time) the small open source stuff that's written for mac (like OCLP now to keep my 2012 iMac alive with Sidecar and Continuity while Apple itself fails (or chooses) not to deliver.
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iMac Turns 25 Today: When to Expect the Next Model to Launch
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Classic Mac OS was broken by design. Cooperative multitasking and no memory protection. Even a small bug in otherwise well behaving software could sink the whole system.
It worked in 1984 when you only ran one application at once.
But it couldn't keep up with time and the more demanding and complex computing requirements.
Apple should have created a replacement much earlier.
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Young’un. My first was a 48K Apple ][+. Had a ][GS with the first color Finder; was great to troll Mac Users still stuck with B&W.
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Many of us naturally use our fingertips and don’t want a hand mouse.
24" is a toy. I loved my 27" so much, but the "smoke" @ his screen and the dead of his HDD made me sell it at the end. With a 32" i probably woul'd get another one. But the notebook hooked up at the samsung tv works perfect as well ;-).
Yup! We had those in 9th grade. Felt like a big jump from the TRS-80s in middle school!
If so, the Magic Trackpad would be equally wireless, un-sane, and un-usable while charging. Instead, the Magic Trackpad works both wireless and wired.
No, it's a lack of testing on Apple's part during the design of the Magic Mouse, multiplied by the inherent bias of macOS toward trackpad usage.
The trackpad doesn't move around on the desktop for cursor movements; unlike a mouse. Allowing wired and wireless use by design, much like a keyboard, makes sense.
Hardly. The MM is easily shared when not in use, such as when you are away from the Mac. The design was intended to be wireless from the start, so testing with a charging cable is pointless. Wireless mice, whether from Apple, Logitech, Dell, MS et. al. are intended to be used without a cable, and similarly tenon't even have charging functionality built in.
I'm not a big fan of the MM and prefer my M720 with many more buttons, but can appreciate that it is a good design.
Sad that the iMac has been reduced to a single entry-level model that may go three years without an update... 
Even if some think it is an entry-level model the performance of a M1 is amazing compared to my previous 2015 iMac w/4.0GHz Intel Core i7 w/ 4GB based M395X. It's way faster in daily usage with unified memory compared to way slower DIMMs and SSD R/W speeds. It's just we need now an enhanced performance update to this model and perhaps a larger model introduction.Sad that the iMac has been reduced to a single entry-level model that may go three years without an update...
Of course I (unknowingly) got married on the 25th anniversary. Been obsessed with the G3 iMac since its release.
Maybe, however, I am going to go ahead and disagree with you. A lot of the design appears to be about modularity — which I can understand why that seems odd/unreasonable in an AIO computer.
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My guess, not being a trained engineer, is the modularity was to accommodate flexibility in the final design. After all, the computer was egg-like shape, something unprecedented(?), and thus foreseeable requiring a lot of tweaks.
As someone who disassembled his rev. A iMac several times to perform upgrades and internal cleaning, the external-style connectors added nice durability — although, indeed, also bulkiness. (FYI: in the link above, the “ketchup and mustard cables” are power.
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Speaking of upgrades and modularity, I forgot to mention two things in my earlier post ( primarily replying to @swingerofbirch ):
Une 3dfx Voodoo 2 dans un iMac G3 - Le journal du lapin
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Is the CPU on the iMac G3 upgradable? How is it mounted? Are third-party processor upgrades available?: EveryMac.com
About the iMac G3 processor daughtercard, iMac G3 processor upgrades from FastMac, Newer, PowerLogix, and Sonnet, and more.
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I recall desiring and very strongly considering both but, admittedly, can’t remember if I actually purchased the Voodoo2 card. I eventually shied away from the CPU upgrade because it required sending in your iMac’s original daughter card, and I couldn’t be without a computer for long — and, of course, knowing if something went wrong in that process, I would have a giant, expensive, colorful desk weight.
If the new one had the Apple logo at the front and wasn’t so light and pastel, I think it’d be peak iMac design. The back colours are so deep and rich, i with they were fully like that with an Apple logo. I bet it’s going away just to come back in glorious fashion
This is exactly where I am. I am basically going to keep going with my 27" iMac until it gives out completely because not only do I not want a mac mini or mac studio just shoved under my desk. I completely built my desk with the iMac in mind, and not having a tower. So unless my solid wood desk gives out before the iMac I will just keep trudging on with my iMac. I have tried to talk myself into a mini or a studio a few times, and always quickly talk myself out of it.
I would prefer an iMac, but if push came to shove I would not be averse to a Mac Studio and display. The Mac Studio can sit just under the display so it doesn’t really take any more desk space
Yeah, but it still is not aesthetically pleasing. I do not want that big box sitting right under my monitor all the time. So I will stick with the iMac even though mine is old enough that it can not update anymore, but it will be used until it just can not be used anymore or they come out with a new one. Might end up saving me several thousand dollars because I might miss a complete normal upgrade cycle for me.
Tip: Mount the Mini or Studio under the desk. Upside-down for better Bluetooth transmission, if it's not mounted under a metallic desk.
I’d buy an iMac with a 10 gig ethernet port on the back. It would be nice to have an SFP+ For either a fiber or copper connection, at 10G. For speedy network backups. 27” display would be nice. M2 or better.
The driving factor for me is 10G Ethernet simply because it is my new standard. I have a lot of equipment, routers, computers, branching, switches, all on 10G. I am not interested in dongles.
The driving factor for me is 10G Ethernet simply because it is my new standard. I have a lot of equipment, routers, computers, branching, switches, all on 10G. I am not interested in dongles.
