Ten months after Apple's new management team, appointed by Steve Jobs upon his return to the company that was taken from him, the iMac G3 was announced, at which point the apple company announced aloud that the days when Apple was silently fading into the background they were over.
The iMac was a computer that had a good plant and never seen. We cannot exaggerate if we say that it was incomparable to everything that at that time we had in the world of computing. Next to the gray or beige boxes built by the rivals, it really stood out.
"It looks like it's from another planet," Jobs said at the time. A good planet. A planet with better designers «.
The designer responsible for the iMac G3 was Jony Ive, who was then only 31 years old. He was at Apple for several years before Jobs returned, and was even on the verge of leaving the company due to insurmountable differences with the managers of that time. Instead, he found so much in common with Jobs that his planned resignation turned into the development of a new revolutionary machine.
El iMac G3 was very much an update on the philosophy of the Apple products that powered the original Macintosh in 1984. At the time, Apple's most affordable computer cost $ 2.000, almost double what a Windows PC could cost. Jobs initially wanted something affordable, through which users could access the Internet.
However, like the original Mac, the project became more ambitious and morphed into a statement computer. With its translucent navy blue design (called Bondi blue like water on an Australian beach), the iMac G3 seemed accessible and easy to use. However, everyone did not like it. Some people thought it looked too monotonous, especially because of its hideous mouse "Hockey disk". But everyone recognized its distinctive character.
In terms of specs, the iMac G3 featured a processor 750 MHz PowerPC 3 (G233), 32MB of RAM, a 4GB EIDE hard drive and a choice of ATI Rage IIc graphics with 2MB of VRAM graphics or ATI Rage Pro Turbo with 6MB of VRAM.
Two other pieces of hardware that came with this iMac, which are also noteworthy, was a built-in phone modem at a time when most computers included them only as optional extras and a floppy drive.