Paris, year 2004. Steve Jobs is not at the helm of the company because of his surgery that keeps him on leave, so the responsibility of presenting the new all-in-one from Apple falls on Phil Schiller, Steve Jobs's right-hand man.
The new iMac is the first with a flat panel display that includes everything on the screen and leaves nothing out, so it was the forerunner of the iMac we know today.a, and is that in fact the design is really very similar to the current one. On the other hand, it received the G5 processor, which did not last long in the maquero market due to the transition to Intel.
As far as hardware is concerned, it was a good computer but nothing to write home about. It relied on a huge G5 processor for almost everythingSince the 400 MHz DDR memory was somewhat short by default and the graphics, even though it was sufficient for day-to-day life, was not anything to write home about, low-end nVidia.
The starting price of this computer was $ 1299, lowering the company's bar a lot and expanding market share. It may not have been Apple's best iMac, but it was the precursor to the one we have today, and that was vital.
A good computer ... riddled with problems. On the one hand, the excessive heat generated by its G5 processor. And, on the other, the problems with the trainers suffered by a large number of computers (practically all the large manufacturers installed tricky trainers at that time) in those years.
Intel iMacs, even the first transitional models, have fared better.