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The iMac turns 10

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 May, 2008 to the technology subset

The iMac turns 10

The computer that changed computers. It was the colours, the choice of colours, that excited everyone (PC users especially) more than anything else, when the iMac was first unveiled ten years ago.

People realised that they were bored of the clunky beige coloured boxes currently sitting on their desks. In response PC manufacturers started producing… carbon black coloured PCs with… rounded corners.

To understand how far the iMac has come in the last ten years, one need look no further than the first letter in the word. When Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac on May 6th, 1998, he explained the “i” was for Internet. Today, connectivity is intrinsic to all personal computers, and yet the iMac name remains, as does its all-in-one design.

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