Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later in All things Macintosh http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20439583 en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:41:53 EDT Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:41:53 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457609 SK :
said by SlickEnW See Profile :

I buy new [apple] toy's every month. Taking off the plastic is the best part :D
Apple toys:plastic wrap::Women:lingerie]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457609 Fri, 09 May 2008 15:03:20 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457145 HiVolt :
said by jayco437 See Profile :

It says built-in wifi, is this indeed the airport card, and would it be removable? I know nothing of "vintage" macs.
Yes, it would be the original Airport card. They fetch a pretty penny on eBay. I had two from old iMac that I sold to a couple forum members here.
--
GOLF LEAFS GOLF!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457145 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:29:50 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457013 jayco437 : It says built-in wifi, is this indeed the airport card, and would it be removable? I know nothing of "vintage" macs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457013 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:06:04 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20456936 SlickEnW :
said by HiVolt See Profile :

said by Tzale See Profile :

That is a major gripe for you? How often do you buy Apple products that a few pieces of protective plastic get under your skin?
When you're asked to help out to set up a few small computer labs, it is a big pain in the ass, removing the plastic crap from all the accessories.
I guess for govt / k-12 it doesn't matter if components are scratched but usually corporate / personal users like their NEW stuff to look pristine :)

I buy new [apple] toy's every month. Taking off the plastic is the best part :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20456936 Fri, 09 May 2008 12:51:47 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20456669 X Man : Some of those are quite a bit newer than the Original Bondi Blue. Also, if there really are a "few" with Airport Cards the cards are worth $40 minimum on eBay. So, it's a good deal, but WTF will you do with them? :D

Regards,
Mike]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20456669 Fri, 09 May 2008 11:51:31 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20455058 jayco437 : These the same thing you think? »elpaso.en.craigslist.org/sys/672952023.html

That's local to me, half thought about getting them. But WTF would I do with all of those (besides a G3 cluster ;-))?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20455058 Fri, 09 May 2008 02:34:00 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20453190 HiVolt :
said by Tzale See Profile :

That is a major gripe for you? How often do you buy Apple products that a few pieces of protective plastic get under your skin?
When you're asked to help out to set up a few small computer labs, it is a big pain in the ass, removing the plastic crap from all the accessories.
--
GOLF LEAFS GOLF!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20453190 Thu, 08 May 2008 18:12:32 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20452556 Tzale :
said by HiVolt See Profile :

said by JoeG4 See Profile :

However, the laptops were always just about the same. That said, PC manufacturers have yet to come close to Apple's packaging ;)
Yeah, because wrapping everything in layers of sticky plastic is really that necessary. ;)

This is one thing that drives me nuts about Apple packaging. Peeling the shit away from the power adapter & such. :mad:
That is a major gripe for you? How often do you buy Apple products that a few pieces of protective plastic get under your skin?

-Tzale
--
Neoconservatives (G.W.B) are not true conservatives. A conservative believes in defending the Constitution. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - RON PAUL & MURRAY SABRIN (NJ GOP FRONT RUNNER for SENATE) 2008
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20452556 Thu, 08 May 2008 16:23:34 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20451438 HiVolt :
said by JoeG4 See Profile :

However, the laptops were always just about the same. That said, PC manufacturers have yet to come close to Apple's packaging ;)
Yeah, because wrapping everything in layers of sticky plastic is really that necessary. ;)

This is one thing that drives me nuts about Apple packaging. Peeling the shit away from the power adapter & such. :mad:
--
GOLF LEAFS GOLF!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20451438 Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:00 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20451406 JoeG4 : The funny thing about the imac vs PC tower video is that it's even more true today - only that the iMac is thinner than your garden variety LCD, and if you have a wifi router the only thing you need to plug in besides the keyboard and mouse is the power!

However, the laptops were always just about the same. That said, PC manufacturers have yet to come close to Apple's packaging ;) ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20451406 Thu, 08 May 2008 12:36:42 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447608 Count Zero : That sounds very logical to me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447608 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:34:24 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447230 wmcbrine :
said by Count Zero See Profile :

Were Macs really a greater % of the user base in 1995 than they are today? That would seem to imply Apple has shrunk since Jobs came back.
The share is smaller, but the market itself is much larger (i.e., more people buy computers). I believe it works out to considerably more customers now.

It seems almost counterintuitive to someone like me, who's always owned computers since 1982, but it's true. The popularization of the Internet drove a huge uptake of computers among the general public (and still does, of course).

At one time I had a nice chart showing this, but I can't find it now.
--
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447230 Wed, 07 May 2008 17:18:56 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447001 DrewCapu :
said by KCrimson See Profile :

MacWorld, held in Boston that year,
said by KCrimson See Profile :

this guy Avi Tavanian was helping create a next generation MacOS with something called a Red Box and Yellow Box. :)
So, if MW were in Chicago, would there have been a White Box?

:D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447001 Wed, 07 May 2008 16:41:30 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20446466 anon :
said by KCrimson See Profile :

This article »www.theage.com.au/news/technolog···660.html from Australia, pays tribute to the 10th aniversary of the iMac by reprinting an original 1998 review. Its amazing how much has changed in that brief time. Its actually humorous to read, and it will definitely take you back to times that really are not long ago.
An excellent look back. Kudos to Apple for guessing right on Ethernet, USB, and getting rid of the floppy.

Of course, PCs just copied everything and made it all cheaper, since they saved on the R&D :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20446466 Wed, 07 May 2008 15:16:04 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445532 Count Zero : Notice that the kid checked the Disney Stock :) Hint at things to come.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445532 Wed, 07 May 2008 12:34:04 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445397 C0deZer0 :
said by Tzale See Profile :

said by Zyncotl See Profile :

Notice the iMac ran IE...heh
LOL... Why would they run such a shitty browser?
Safari didn't exist yet.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445397 Wed, 07 May 2008 12:11:09 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445389 C0deZer0 :
said by jrs8084 See Profile :

(youtube clip)
remember when Steve showed this during the keynote.

I guess I liked it because I had a border collie that looked just like Brody :-)
Nah, it just proves how useless MBA's are. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445389 Wed, 07 May 2008 12:09:30 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444543 KCrimson :
said by wilbilt See Profile :

said by Count Zero See Profile :

Were Macs really a greater % of the user base in 1995 than they are today? That would seem to imply Apple has shrunk since Jobs came back
The first thing he did upon his return was to kill the clone licensing. Radius, Power Computing, SuperMac and Motorola made some pretty nice machines. That had to hurt the OS user base.
Actually, that isn't the reason that the userbase dwindled. It already WAS dwindling for a couple of years. The effect of dozens of clone makers providing commodity parts started to take effect, and people were realizing that they could get the GUI interface (which MS was steadily catching up to Apple at providing) for less money. I remember reading sneak previews of Win95 and being a bit jealous that MS was finally getting things right. Combine that with Apple selling off unsold machines for losses, rumours of buyouts, unsuccessful long-overdue-rebuilds of MacOS, and the apparent lack of direction of the company, it was pretty sad.
When Jobs came back there was excitement for the first time in YEARS. Yes, he shocked everyone initially with the discontinuation of the clones. MacWorld, held in Boston that year, was the event where he announced the Microsoft commitment to Office. The press was already detailing the wonderous new direction that the new MacOS was taking. With the NeXT software assets this guy Avi Tavanian was helping create a next generation MacOS with something called a Red Box and Yellow Box. :) If the past few years were a bottomless pit, that MacWorld was the beginning of the climb back out.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444543 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:33:11 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444488 KCrimson : Yes, MacOS commanded a larger segment of the overall market back then, as opposed to the less-than-10% we see OS X enjoying today. I don't have the numbers, but I'm sure they'll prove me correct. It wasn't until the release of Win95 and then Win98 that Windows started to obliterate its competition. During the Win3.1 days it was very close, and with the installed base of machines dating back a few years, the previous close-call meant PLENTY of installed MacOS users.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444488 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:19:27 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444455 KCrimson : Actually we're both right, and we're both wrong. MS Word appeared on Mac, and gained its initial popularity on the Mac platform BEFORE it was released on Windows. HOWEVER it was released on MS/PC-DOS before that, seeing much less success. Wordstar and then WordPerfect were the word processing powerhouses on PCs.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444455 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:11:07 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444413 wilbilt :
said by Count Zero See Profile :

Were Macs really a greater % of the user base in 1995 than they are today? That would seem to imply Apple has shrunk since Jobs came back
The first thing he did upon his return was to kill the clone licensing. Radius, Power Computing, SuperMac and Motorola made some pretty nice machines. That had to hurt the OS user base.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444413 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:59:18 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444347 Count Zero : Were Macs really a greater % of the user base in 1995 than they are today? That would seem to imply Apple has shrunk since Jobs came back]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444347 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:37:09 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444286 wilbilt :
said by sporkme See Profile :

said by Tzale See Profile :

LOL... Why would they run such a shitty browser?
IE:Mac was a different codebase from windows. At the time it was faster and rendered better than Netscape and Opera. Having used it on a bondi iMac, I can vouch for it. :)
Yes, it was bundled on them, along with Outlook Express.

It was part of the Apple/MS settlement/bribe or whatever you want to call it.

I bought a Bondi rev.A new when they first came out. I can still remember the excitement when that FedEx truck pulled into the driveway...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444286 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:17:34 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444282 inteller :
said by jrs8084 See Profile :

said by KCrimson See Profile :

If I recall correctly MS Word and Excel first appeared on MacOS.
You are correct. And they were quite decent (especially Word 5.1), until the release of Word 6/Excel 5, which were horrid and slow. Office 97 did fix things greatly, though.

And yes, IE was on that original iMac. Sadly, that was the best (IMHO) for that time. Yeah, Netscape was there, too, but it wasn't that much better.
no you are both wrong. Microsoft released the program October 25, 1983, for the IBM PC.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444282 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:16:44 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443269 sporkme :
said by Tzale See Profile :

LOL... Why would they run such a shitty browser?
IE:Mac was a different codebase from windows. At the time it was faster and rendered better than Netscape and Opera. Having used it on a bondi iMac, I can vouch for it. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443269 Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:25 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443237 X Man : It was, and IE was the best on 9 no doubt. I liked System 7 though. Still do, maybe 'cause 7.5 was my first Mac's OS.

I liked hopping 7.5 up to look like 8 with Appearance Manager, good stuff. I still run Basilisk II with that 7.5 APM set-up and play Sim City :D

I'm going to have to fire up my Mac SE HD as I haven't in probably 2-3 yrs :o It's stacked with a 4MB RAM upgrade and System 7-Up ;) And, it can Talk with MacinTalk and I bet it can still kick my ass @ GNU Chess. :D

Regards,
Mike]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443237 Tue, 06 May 2008 23:54:19 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443215 KCrimson : I don't agree. I was using OS 7 in all its revisions, as well as every version of OS 8, and also using PCs at that time. There was LESS of a difference in browsing than you find today. Speed was limited mostly by the user's bandwidth, not processing power. Active-X was not yet as pervasive as it is today. Every popular plug-in was available for both platforms. As Macs were a greater percentage of the installed base, there were fewer sites that disregarded the ability of Mac users to correctly view web pages. Perhaps you had broadband, I didn't have it until around 2000, by which time I was using the other platform.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443215 Tue, 06 May 2008 23:50:01 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443178 HiVolt : Browsing the internet on OS 7.5/8/9 was horrible, even with a modern machine for the times.
--
GOLF LEAFS GOLF!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443178 Tue, 06 May 2008 23:38:35 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443157 X Man : Ever run .6 or .7 versions of Mozilla on OS 8.6? Good god! It was un-usable! So horrible, I'm almost amazed at how great the Mozilla based stuff became. :D

Regards,
Mike]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443157 Tue, 06 May 2008 23:32:01 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443095 jrs8084 :
said by KCrimson See Profile :

If I recall correctly MS Word and Excel first appeared on MacOS.
You are correct. And they were quite decent (especially Word 5.1), until the release of Word 6/Excel 5, which were horrid and slow. Office 97 did fix things greatly, though.

And yes, IE was on that original iMac. Sadly, that was the best (IMHO) for that time. Yeah, Netscape was there, too, but it wasn't that much better.
--
512Ke, LC, Classic, Qudra 605, Centris 610 AV,Performa 6112, PM 6500, Cube, iMac G4 17", iMac 24", PB 5300, PB 3400, PB G4, and a few PCs]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20443095 Tue, 06 May 2008 23:19:07 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442950 Tzale :
said by Zyncotl See Profile :

Notice the iMac ran IE...heh
LOL... Why would they run such a shitty browser?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442950 Tue, 06 May 2008 22:48:47 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442882 KCrimson : If I recall correctly MS Word and Excel first appeared on MacOS. I had no problem at all finding exactly what I wanted. In fact, unlike today, a good percentage of software available in retail stores was released on CDs that contained both Mac and PC compatible versions.
As for IE, yes it was available, as was Netscape and Mosaic before it.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442882 Tue, 06 May 2008 22:34:13 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442789 Zyncotl : Notice the iMac ran IE...heh]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442789 Tue, 06 May 2008 22:16:24 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442496 bobrk :
said by Tzale See Profile :

said by Zyncotl See Profile :

said by thorgod See Profile :

Dang! I've never seen that commercial but talk about a good one!
I disagree. I think they were a bit exaggerated in their times to set up and the difficulty. HPs were color coded. It also took the adult twice as long to unbox the first part...really? The iMac was easier, but not THAT much easier as made to appear in the video.
Yeah, good luck finding software that worked with it also...

-Tzale
All the software you needed was available.
--
Iraq Coalition Deaths | bobrk]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442496 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:17:33 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442486 Tzale :
said by Zyncotl See Profile :

said by thorgod See Profile :

Dang! I've never seen that commercial but talk about a good one!
I disagree. I think they were a bit exaggerated in their times to set up and the difficulty. HPs were color coded. It also took the adult twice as long to unbox the first part...really? The iMac was easier, but not THAT much easier as made to appear in the video.
Yeah, good luck finding software that worked with it also...

-Tzale
--
Neoconservatives (G.W.B) are not true conservatives. A conservative believes in defending the Constitution. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - RON PAUL & MURRAY SABRIN (NJ GOP FRONT RUNNER for SENATE) 2008
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442486 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:14:23 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442362 Thinkdiff : I can't believe it's been 10 years already. Man am I getting old ;).

FWIW, my Mom's Bondi Blue iMac (8MB VRAM) is sitting on my desk at home, still working just fine. She used it up until 3 years ago as her main work computer on Mac OS 9.1 and it worked perfectly fine. I completely disagree with anybody that says Mac OS 7/8/9 were crap. They were all great in their respected eras. 9 was a bit of a slow down on most of my computers, and 9.2 seemed like a bastard child to hold over until they had OS X ready, but 8.6 and 8.1 were fine. I still enjoy using them every so often when I turn on one of my older Macs.

I believe August 15th is the actual "birthday" as that's when they first shipped. I'll be sure to boot up my 2 Bondi Blue iMacs in memory on that day ;)
--
University of Southern California - Class of 2010. Fight On!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442362 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:45:51 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442273 Zyncotl :
said by thorgod See Profile :

Dang! I've never seen that commercial but talk about a good one!
I disagree. I think they were a bit exaggerated in their times to set up and the difficulty. HPs were color coded. It also took the adult twice as long to unbox the first part...really? The iMac was easier, but not THAT much easier as made to appear in the video.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20442273 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:26:23 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441931 KCrimson :
said by M A R K See Profile :

Lets be real tho, OS8 and OS9 were total trash and a true let down. I got my first ibook in 2000 and heated OS9.
Was that your first Mac, or were you an existing Mac user? I don't think that at-the-time typical Mac users would have agreed with your assessment. In fact, OS 7, 8 and 9 each saw incremental improvements in the interface. We were reading about Copeland, had Copeland-like interface hacks that programmers added to make the windows look like Copeland, we were reading about what would become OS X after the Next purchase (and the dumping of Copeland). In the meantime Apple kept on slowly improving the existing code base. When I returned to the Mac a few years ago, I was surprised at how LITTLE I needed to learn, as it almost seemed that the Finder was lifted from the version I last used in 8.6. :)

For those long time Mac users - What do you think, were you surprised that those drawer-tabs didn't make it into OS X? I really do miss them - they were a neat way of leaving open windows minimized.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441931 Tue, 06 May 2008 19:19:42 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441830 praetoralpha : 10 years ago, the floppy started to disappear. How much longer does the DVD drive have? 20 years? less?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441830 Tue, 06 May 2008 18:59:10 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441666 sporkme :
said by jrs8084 See Profile :

(youtube clip)
remember when Steve showed this during the keynote.
I think the biggest sham in that video is pretending that the kid could even lift an iMac - those bitches are heavy and the kid is small.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441666 Tue, 06 May 2008 18:30:07 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441443 thorgod : Dang! I've never seen that commercial but talk about a good one!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441443 Tue, 06 May 2008 17:48:37 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441289 M A R K : Lets be real tho, OS8 and OS9 were total trash and a true let down. I got my first ibook in 2000 and heated OS9.
--
Neturei Karta]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20441289 Tue, 06 May 2008 17:21:11 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440155 KCrimson : I have fond memories of OS 8 - it saw some additions to the interface that were pretty cool. I liked the drawer that you could leave tabbed on the bottom of the screen, and was surprised when I returned to Apple's camp that it wasn't included as a feature in Finder for OS X. I know it featured some Apple flops like Cyberdog and OpenDoc, but there were some cool features too.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440155 Tue, 06 May 2008 14:04:15 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440125 jrs8084 :

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctjNrCThQNc


I remember when Steve showed this during the keynote.

I guess I liked it because I had a border collie that looked just like Brody :-)
--
512Ke, LC, Classic, Qudra 605, Centris 610 AV,Performa 6112, PM 6500, Cube, iMac G4 17", iMac 24", PB 5300, PB 3400, PB G4, and a few PCs]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440125 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:59:48 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440117 HiVolt :
said by KCrimson See Profile :

The articles author stated that they ran equivalent to a P2/466 (or thereabouts, I don't remember the exact phrasing).
Yeah, but it was crippled with a slowass 66mhz bus speed, shit video, etc, etc, etc... And it ran OS 8 (PUKE).
--
GOLF LEAFS GOLF!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440117 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:59:11 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440076 KCrimson : The articles author stated that they ran equivalent to a P2/466 (or thereabouts, I don't remember the exact phrasing). I wasn't yet back in the Apple fold, having departed about a year before (for ~6 years). At the time I was using a P2/350, and it ran quick enough to survive an XP-Pro upgrade and remain useful until recent times.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440076 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:52:54 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440045 HiVolt : Ugh, those original iMacs were dog slow... They got a lot better in the slot-load revision that had Airport, Firewire, used standard PC100 ram. We still used one at work as an incoming fax machine, until it kicked the bucket about a year ago.
--
GOLF LEAFS GOLF!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440045 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:47:32 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440036 KCrimson : Lets not forget the heretical idea of releasing a home computer without a floppy drive. :)
When I first started reading the review I didn't realize that ethernet networking wasn't as pervasive as it is now. It seems like more than 10 years has past since I purchased my first gateway (a Netgear RT-314 which a regular member of this forum, BBarrera helped write some custom filters).
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440036 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:44:58 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440008 witmer1 : Thanks for the link. I remember reading that article when the iMac was originally released. I remember thinking who in their right mind was going to buy the iMac because of the lack of USB peripherals as well.... Much less think I'd be happy to own one 10 years later. Happy Birthday iMac.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20440008 Tue, 06 May 2008 13:39:45 EDT Re: A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20439583 Gordo74 : This is the funniest part to me:

"Also missing are serial ports (iMac owners can forget about using a PalmPilot or other hand-held which requires a serial desktop connection) and a printer port. To print from your iMac you'll need to find a USB printer (don't bother looking, right now there are none) , buy a printer with infra-red capabilities (limiting your choice to a handful of models), be connected to a network (at home? yeah, right) or e-mail your work to someone who's got a printer.
--
Ever wonder about the stars? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20439583 Tue, 06 May 2008 12:15:27 EDT A Look At Bondi Blue iMac 10 Yrs Later http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20439502 KCrimson : This article »www.theage.com.au/news/technolog···660.html from Australia, pays tribute to the 10th aniversary of the iMac by reprinting an original 1998 review. Its amazing how much has changed in that brief time. Its actually humorous to read, and it will definitely take you back to times that really are not long ago.
--
Happy With What I Have To Be Happy With]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20439502 Tue, 06 May 2008 11:59:23 EDT