Word: imac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special event" yesterday, 13 months after the first iMac was unveiled, Apple interim CEO and Noah Wyle lookalike Steve Jobs launched four new products: three new iMacs and a new version of the Macintosh operating system called OS9. Besides keeping its promise to upgrade its product lines more or less annually, and giving its fans something to ask Santa for, the announcement revealed Apple as firmly seated on three bandwagons: the Internet, desktop video and privacy...
...First and foremost, the new iMacs give their users what all users want: more power. The basic iMac - which now qualifies as the low-end iMac - comes with a 350MHz G3 chip, 64 MB of RAM (expandable all the way up to 512MB), and a six-gigabyte hard drive. What else? A new, quieter cooling system, rapid startup, and a new price: $999. MORE...
...COLOR ME iMAC...
Architect Christian De Portzamparc's innovative 23-story building in Manhattan with a faceted, overlapping glass facade [FALL PREVIEW, Sept. 6] is indeed striking, but perhaps he has unknowingly taken a leaf from Apple Computer's book. With a Bondi Blue color typical of the iMac and a translucent exterior, can this building be mistaken as anything but an iRise? Perhaps later we'll see versions in lime, blueberry, tangerine, grape and strawberry? DENNIS WINDRIM Edmonton, Alta...
...online, where operating systems matter least. "No website," says Jobs, "knows whether it's a Mac or Windows on the other end of the line." In fact, for the home user who spends most of his computer time reading e-mail and browsing the Web, the plug-and-surf iMac is clearly a superior product--a fact vividly evidenced by the rise of Apple's consumer market share from 5% to a startling 12% in less than a year. In a little-noted but surely deliberate statement of purpose, Jobs devoted the bulk of last week's keynote...