The iMac is a series of all-in-one computers from Apple Inc., sold as part of the company’s Mac family of computers. First introduced in 1998, it has remained a primary part of Apple’s consumer desktop offerings since and evolved through seven distinct forms. The iMac natively runs the macOS operating system. In its original form, the iMac G3 had a gumdrop, ADM-3 or egg-shaped look, with a CRT monitor, mainly enclosed by a coloured, translucent plastic case. The computer was, at the time, an inexpensive, consumer-oriented computer that would easily connect to the Internet. The second major revision, the iMac G4, moved a design with a hemispherical base containing all the main components and an LCD monitor on a freely moving arm attached to it. The third and fourth revisions, the iMac G5 and the Intel iMac, placed all the components immediately behind the display in a plastic casing, creating a slim unified design that tilts only up and down on a simple metal base. The fifth, sixth and seventh revisions swapped the plastic enclosure for metal and became progressively thinner over each revision. We celebrate this feat of IT engineering with an AI Image of a vintage Apple iMac …


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