I personally think it looks like a "BAD" idea.
Stan
January 8, 2002
Apple Bets on Unorthodox iMac to Bolster Its Once-Popular PC
By JOHN MARKOFF
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Apple's new iMac is said to be inspired by a sunflower.
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Steven P. Jobs of Apple Computer introduced a flat-panel version of the iMac personal computer on Monday.
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AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 — Apple Computer (news/quote) introduced an unorthodox version of its iMac personal computer today, seeking to refresh its once-popular three-year-old consumer model, which had begun to grow stale.
The new PC, which features a translucent swiveling flat-panel display on top of a hemispherical pearl-white base, is certain to cause as much industry controversy and consternation as the original rounded Apple iMac, which was introduced in 1998.
The earlier machine was designed around the cathode-ray tube, which Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, pronounced dead today. He said the company had taken advantage of the falling costs of LCD flat-panel monitors to entirely rethink what a computer should look like.
The company rejected the notion of simply deepening the flat-panel design now used for its separate desktop monitors, for both aesthetic and technical reasons, Mr. Jobs said. |
