I am green with envy due to ttyymmnn and his new super-slick iMac so I decided to pull my iMac out of the basement and show it off.
It is a state of the art circa 2001 600 MHz PowerPC G3 iMac. I bought it 2008 to make me daily drive a mac a bit and learn it as I was supporting it during my job.
It got used some but eventually put back in a box in the basement and it stayed there until a couple months ago as I was cleaning out my basement as Apple left the IBM powered machines behind in their Intel transition.
As this thing has a 15" CRT build in it is gigantic on my desk and also puts out a ton of heat.
The keyboard is surprisingly not bad, especially for a 20 year old membrane keyboard. The hockey puck mouse is a horrifying misadventure in ergonomics though.
It does have an interesting thing of a multi-colored ball the same color as the mouse plastic so it flashed when being used.
Also even though USB had existed for a while now it was not really widely used until after this machine. It made excellent use of it with decent IO and a built in hub in the keyboard to plug in the mouse or other devices.
Man do you forget how slow a mechanical hard drive is until you try to use one again. This thing takes minutes to boot up and the hard drive chunks along making a ton of noise like they always used to. It was downright fast to use even 15 years ago with the 512 mb of RAM and a 60 gb HDD.
There are a lot of things about this machine I didn’t talk about - it really was super-cool when new. I’m no Mac historian so I can’t do it justice, but they really were revolutionary.
Well I hope you enjoyed this random trip down memory lane with me - now she goes on CL for someone else to enjoy/let it take up space.