I still have my original Bondi Blue and use it from time to time. Only Mac I use

superhalo

wow. 10 yrs. i remember the first time i had to upgrade the memory on the original. what a pain in the ass. i almost dropped the damn thing

Weihovah

I still have my original bondi blue, networked and running like a clock. Add to that my eMac, Imac G5 and my Macbook to the family..Ill never need human companionship again.

Memories.

Sion

Also, as far as design goes - I have a little soft spot for the original G3 (being the first I used and all), I love the look of the G4 flat panel (but from a service standpoint that thing is fucking hellspawn), I love the original G5 from a service standpoint (3 screws at the bottom and access to EVERYTHING inside), and then I love the new one best from the "pretty for my home and photo editing" angle.

NightElfMohawk

I pour my heart & soul into that last comment, and this is the thanks I get?

malvones

Wow, I can't believe it's been nearly 10 years since I started using the platform on a regular basis. More things making time fly. Means it's closing in on 8 years since the first time I worked for them...

NightElfMohawk

The iLamp is still my main computer at home. It's the purtiest computer I've ever seen, and I'll probably keep it around long after it's expired just for its looks.

mildretard

agreed, i will always have a soft spot for the ilamp

mjbyrne

Yay!!! All the ads are up... The comments are gone though...

dwight-schrute

iLamp FTW! Thanks for getting up the rest of the ads. Sorry I doubted you GIZ!

Elijah86

iLamp... period.

pedrombracho

There was no checkbox in the poll for the eMac I bought when I was in college. It was a slow piece of crap paperweight anyway, as was any Mac before they came into the 21st Century with Intel.

mikeness

The iLamp design and the Thin Can are just out of this world. Eve has done amazing job for apple. I can't see him ever leave Apple.

vgart

I had one of the original blue ones.
And yes, there is a step three: Buy a paperclip so you can restart the machine every 5 minutes.

Pablos102030

I liked the eMac. It was awesome and white. When I got my first iMac that's what i wanted but then I realized my school just had outdated macs, so I got a G5.

Lasarett

I like the tin can now. I used to have a white iMac and didn't like the aluminum ones at first. They sort of grow on you. I am waiting for the " all particle board" iMac. The iWood.

I want to do my part for global warming.

hardenstuhl

iLamp is gorgeous. I've had mine for almost 5 years. Excellent design, and it's still feisty (or I mean, it works great).

UnearthlyB

"there is no step 3...*evil laugh*"

buyj3llo

I loved the iLamp design. The swivel head is awesome. I would totally buy a iMac G4 if someone modded it to have the internals of a new Intel iMac or even the older iMac G5 innards. I'd pay up to 1000K for that baby - oh and must be 20" LCD. Just pretty.

CutePuppyz

My favorite ad is the one for the latest iMac but iLamp is my favorite design (hopefully my Indigo iMac didn't hear that).

MrHaroHaro

"Tens year"? sigh.

Anyway, I forgot about the originals, cause I never had any use for Apple anything. Now that I'm stuck using a Core 2 iMac at work, this article is kinda interesting to see. Not a fan of the form factor but it's sure better now than it was!

apstewart

the towers look better than the bugly all-in-ones i think :P

urbanturban666

+ Watch video

vinnyr

I preferred the old Toy Store colored version.

Con Seannery

PS, You forgot the intel core 2 duo imac with the g5 looking case!

vinnyr

I love the ilamp ad, when the guy sticks his tongue out at the imac, and it opens it cd drive and makes a face!

vinnyr

@malvones: Sorry, the technical problem required nuking the old post (and your comments) entirely.

matt buchanan

@vinnyr:

I'm still trying to "imagine the possibilities"...

*sigh*

So let me get this straight - PowerPC chips were holding back Apple's Mac?

Whatever.

I mean dual/quad-core is neat and all but...

EnochLight

Funny thing, between my wife and I, the iLamp is the only form factor I haven't owned, and yet, if I had to pick an iMac that would be it.

Dearhaw

@CutePuppyz: 1000K is one million dollars. If you are willing to pay that much for an intel lamp, I'll staple dual core in one for you. Just make the check out to cash.

badhatharry

@EnochLight: well i actually love the intel chips, i have there 8 core in my mac pro right now, and it has tons of power.

the powerpc chips werent bad, just not very marketable, 400mhz ppc = 1.6 ghz pentium 4, but that was too hard to explain to basic consumers. Also every try magnifying a dock with a ppc, anything less then a g5 and it will slam the cpus.

vinnyr

G4 iLamp remains the nicest design, but I feel like they killed it off quicker than they did the others. Is it just me? BTW, that has been the only Mac that nearly converted me purely on aesthetics. In fact I will go out on a limb and say it's my favorite post-revival Apple design besides the G3 iPod.

jibbly

i hate imacs and apple.

vasha

The G4 by FAR. It was that computer that got me into Apple stocks. I took one look at that machine and said this company is gonna fly.

The G4 by FAR.

NeoXY

Gotta love the iLamp, for sure.

I still marvel at my Aluminum iMac every day though... definitely the best-looking and best-performing computer I've ever owned, Apple or otherwise.

Stash

I like the Swivel G4 iLamp one. We had one at the studio I worked at for the last two years and I myself have had the intel Chipped Flat White iMac since 06' It runs great, but I really must say that swivel screen design is damn hot and it should be re-vamped and brought back out, the aesthetics aspect of it of course :P

e0ytk

I genuinely loved the skittles ones, namely because that was the first one I actually got. One of my friends had the Bondi Blue one as soon as it came out, I thought it was the coolest fastest thing ever. I would pass one in Sears and always stop to play with it. I still have my Blueberry one packed away somewhere.

sublicon

@EnochLight: Actually, yes - IBM had given up on making a next-gen PowerPC chip that would be power-efficient enough for a Apple's portables, opting instead for the metric assloads of cash Microsoft and Sony were handing them to design the chips that power the XBox 360 and the PS3. So Apple went Intel instead.

At the risk of sounding way too fanboy-ish, I'm quite impressed by the fact that Apple had maintained x86 builds of OS X all along "just in case" - it was a pretty high-priced insurance policy that saved their butts in the end.

rekoil

I used to have that second one; it was the only computer I could use all summer. I hated every single aspect of it, bar none, and it's the reason I despise Macs with a passion today.

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

I have a white intel one (I still see no reason to upgrade to the new ones), but I have owned a g3 eMac iMac(very briefly), and the gooseneck. I bought the g4 gooseneck for my ex, but in the seperation I recieved custody and used it for a while. I sold it, mostly because I couldn't justify owning five computers, i kept my intel iMac, macbook and my powermac g4 server. The g4 iMac and the PowerBook that she broke got the ax. Bought it used for $700 and sold it two years later for $450. The damn PowerBook was allllll screwed up and I still got $750 for despite the fact it was 1ghz and I sold it after I bought my 2.1 ghz Santa Rosa MacBook for $1299. Gotta love how macs retain their value.

thechansen

Looks like you left out the iMac DV (and Special Edition, Flower Power, and Dalmation). The iMac DV SE was my favorite, with the clear black pro mouse.

Yudonomi

Where's the "you guys are fanboys" option in the poll :P

I never really liked the iMacs. If I had to choose the lesser of the evils, I would pick the "lamp" one or the "tin can" one. I liked the swiveling that the G4 could do, and the current one looks the best of the bunch (even when the others came out).

My least favorite is the first one. I never liked it, ever. It was slow, ugly, and the spinning color wheel thing only seemed to aggravate all of these problems. Besides that, it is and was a hideous thing to look at.

wvv

Wow, I have owned all of those except for the latest iteration. I'll get the new one when it gets it's next hardware update.

The Magnificen7

I'm pro-windows but the current imac looks so good.

cskelldog

mmm, the iLamp is purdy.always been my favorite. Funny thing is how a bunch of people still use their old mac's. I can't think of anyone who uses a pc that runs anything older than 2000. I'm probably guns get grilled for this comment.

chizelord

You notice though how each new Imac was pretty revolutionary, until the G5 that is. I mean, you set the bar that high previously, it kinda looks like a G4.5.

yardameus

I'm using the G4 ilamp right now. It's my only computer. I've had it for like 6 years and while I've thought about getting another one, I just can't justify. I still get compliments on it. I know it'll soon become un-upgradable, but for my admittedly low-impact use, it's perfect.

My only gripe: The all-white and clear-plastic keyboard quickly looks like shiiiiit.

cardboardbelt

@vinnyr:
That commercial was stupid. So video editing, GAMING, downloading HD porn, watching HDTV, email, video conferencing are dull little tasks? That's why I hate Apple commercials they are woefully ignorant.

daftrok

I dont understand why apple discarded the G4 (ilamp) design so fast, just for the bland look of the flat G5...

Shadowlayer

@vasha: r u proud?

mikail511

dude, i still have my ilamp, and to be honest, it looks great on my desk. which is y i dont use it because of its measly processor, and horrible screen. but yet still my favorite

mikail511

Happy Birthday!

I'm more of a well wisher, in that I don't wish it any specific harm.

strider_mt2k

My Favourite Design is the current iMac, the one with the black rim. I actually ordered one last week, still havent got it because UPS are incompetant and have told me to pick it up in their Delivery center, in Manchester, thats fine if you live in Manchester, but what if you Live in the North Eart of Scotland, even though they have a center in Dundee. I will comment of it once i get it :(.

TetraUK

the g5 was gorgeous. I don't like the new one that much.

rudez90

The one thing that the original iMac couldn't do:

Answer the question "What do you do if you want a bigger monitor?"

OMG! Ponies!

I want a lamp ... but I'm waiting for the iMac that looks like those ultra expensive Mac monitors that aren't worth it.

MastaFalse

Still got my bondi, albiet being used as seeting in my bedroom....

hired_geek

i remember when i bought the original as yearbook staffer in high school. i loved them. i miss those days a lot. great memories with those little guys. i remember the year we upgraded from 9.X to OS X too. that was cool.

i wish i'd bought stock 10 years ago today.

noroadtrippin

@Shadowlayer: See my earlier comment on it. The G4 design was beautiful, but to do any service on it at all was like pulling teeth without novocaine during a root canal. There was only one accessible RAM expansion slot, and if the RAM on the inside went out, they you'd have to deconstruct the entire thing just to get to it. The original G5 was designed exactly the opposite way, where with the loosening of just 3 screws, even the end user has access to absolutely every internal component in the computer.

NightElfMohawk

I had to vote for the "Flat n White" since the question was our favorite "design," but functionality-wise, my fave has been the "iLamp." It's a little funny-looking, but I love how easy it is to lug around when you need to, and the way the neck bends so easily to accommodate both adults and children with nothing but the simplest effort.

ldsdj

iDon'tCare

Con Seannery

i <3 the iLamp

glaeven

The originals were awesome. I had a 233/rev.B for a while, used it as a laptop - it worked surprisingly well as such. Still love the design, too, especially as a Macquarium.

The iLamp was pretty cool, too - wouldn't mind finding one of those cheaply.

The new ones have lost their style, in my opinion.

FuzzyPlushroom

i'm one of the few people who would prefer a pc over a mac, but the i've always thought that the iLamp was cool

Kartune

My office is still running all four versions of the iMac. It's such a joke. The Bondi blue is like an abacus compared to Mr. tin can!

Set to evil

My absolute favorite, hands down, is the iLamp iMac. Years later, it still looks amazing. Sure, it was a bitch to upgrade (that base was surprisingly heavy as shit!), but man, did it look awesome.

I'm happy with the way the iMac has evolved since then. They've gotten lighter, brighter, faster, and easier to upgrade in the revisions since the iLamp model.

As far as the original iMac goes, however, I absolutely HATE those models. I have so many bad memories with those Macs, with their god-awful OS 8 and & OS 9 installs. I know so many people who turned into absolute Mac haters as a result of using those systems, and I can completely understand where they come from. It's too bad, really, since the latest flavors of OS X are completely different from those "Classic" OS's. (AKA: They actually work)

djkibblesnbits

@rudez90: i have one of the intel imacs that have the all white case, all the looks of a g5 with the power of a core 2 duo.

vinnyr

My family got an iMac G5 shortly after they came out, a 20" model. It was amazing when I first got it, especially since we'd been using a cheap Dell desktop with a slow 1 GHz Celeron processor for a while. But I like the latest ad.

kzooguy

I really, really, really think the iLamp was the pinnacle of lame. And I'm a total fanboy.

The skinny, final-PPC based iMacs were mighty sexy, but it's nice that they've finally departed from the white plastic.

I have a massive soft spot for the original iMac housing, only because I still own and love an eMac, which has a very similar case, modded slightly to hold a 17" CRT.

jbang

Can we have a followup piece: 10 Years of the Dell OptiPlex?

Like 'em or not, at least Apple realizes that if I'm going to have a PC sitting in my living room, I want the thing to look like something that someone actually spent a little bit of time thinking about.

ppiddy

I love lamp.

Not really, the current models are the prettiest. They're really easy to sell. Even though I sell more Mac Pro's the iMac is a second runner up.

I'll stick with Laptops for myself though.

benjello

@badhatharry: Haha. I meant $1000. Hell I'd even pay $1500 for one, if you could mod it for Dual Core running Intel processors, bump the HDD up significantly - and it all works together?

I don't need Leopard, but Tiger is fine.

Wow, that'd be a dream and all that on a 20" G4 iLamp? I have yet to see one.

The most I've seen the iLamps go for are still somewhere around 600-800 dollars (i only dig the 20" widescreen one...very limited run!) on eBay and thats a lot for the old specs....especially since a new Tin Can iMac isn't that expensive now...

CutePuppyz