Re: should g3 imac go?
Originally posted by jefhatfield
should the g3 imac go?
Yes. I hate it. It used to be cool but now it isn't. It's slow and ugly. I don't think Apple has the gall to let its revolutionary little child die just yet. C'MON APPLE! IT'S BEEN 5 FREAKIN' YEARS!
...and will the g4 emac eventually be available to the general public and if so, will that spell the end to the 15" crt g3 imac?
No. There used to be this cool little Mac called the G3 All-in-One (AIO). It was only marketed to eduaction. It basically was an AIO G3 DT and a pre-cursor to the iMac. But even though Apple could have made $ in the consumer market with this, they didn't. History will repeat itself.
Apple has done this before with the G3 AIO and will do it again. If Jobs wants to push his little iBoob, then that's his problem. I'm just looking at the potential that the eMac would have in the consumer market and I'm shaking my head. The low-end iMac is EXPENSIVE for the general consumer. The eMac would be a lower cost machine that would be more in the price range.
It's called product shielding. "e" is for education, but that's the only thing that makes it definitively education. Just because Apple wanted it to be. Big mistake IMO.
The CRT iMac will die when LCD's become standard across the board. Until then, they need the CRTs because LCDs are still too much of a novelty item.