“Better, faster, smaller, cheaper … It’s the standard progression in the world of personal technology. Many of the new gizmos and gadgets of 2004 were clever and useful, but a few deserve special mention for advancing the state of the art – including Apple’s ingenious iMac G5, our favorite new tech product of the year,” Peter Lewis writes for Fortune.
Full list of Fortune’s 2004 best (and worst) technology winners (subscription required) here.
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Steve Jobs dedicated “hour after hour” to the minutiae of product design at Apple, driven by a belief of God being in the details,…
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Jesus I hate these god damn sites that require subscription to read their retarted overstated stories.
Hi Subscription News Sucks
I agree with you 100%…. but please don’t be talking about Jesus like that…. ok?
Enought with “retarded” comments too thanks …
It should have been the iPod Mini. That was the iPod that anyone could afford and everyone wanted… except Steve Balmer of course.
Yeah, I hate subscription sites too, when they still force you to read stupid ads too!
Steve, I can’t believe you’re not using Pith Helmet to block ads in Safari – get with it man!
Glick, I don’t think the first poster was suggesting that Jesus was retarded. There’s no historical indication that the world’s most famous rabbi was mentally slow. Sure, there’s a good chance that most of his “teachings” were ripped by monks from Confucius (you know, like Confucius’s famous statement “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do unto others�), but still, there’s no record that he was a moron.
Now as for people who dedicate their lives to mystical incantations about the occult and supernatural, like Christians for example, obviously they’re generally not too swift in the cranium. But I’m pretty sure that wasn’t what this poster was talking about.
Anyway, Peter Lewis is right as usual. But it’s not too bold a statement to claim that the iMac G5 is a Great New Thing.
This is dedicated to all the whiners who think MDN is purely an iPod News Site…
And of course, to the naysayers who think Apple is the iPod company..
Sum Yung: You are of course entitled to believe any bullsh!t you like if if makes you feel intellectual. Just keep your fundy atheist rantings to yourself, especially with regards to the offensive generalisations about people with whom you don’t agree. Click on the link below and see how far you down the list you get before you recognise yourself. I suspect it won’t be too far because you’re such a stereotype.
http://www.tektonics.org/parody/fundyath.html
I’m sorry Yawn but that URL is ridiculous!!
Yawn: Just because someone has a different faith to your beliefs does not make them a “fundy atheist” (the American butchery of the English language still amazes me!) I’m sure that Sum Yung Gai’s beliefs are just as firmly held as yours, mine or anyone else’s. To denounce him is extremely hypocritical and I’d have thought extremely unchristian. After all Christianity is all about tolerance and love not spouting bile and venom to others.
Anyway I thought this was a Mac forum and not a Theology debate?
Cheers and Merry Christmas (Ede/Diwali/Chanukah etc…
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That’s a great link, Yawn. If the God squad are starting to respond in this manner, it means they feel threatened at last.
Roll on The Enlightenment. It’s been a long time coming.
Back on subject!!
The new iMac G5 is FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!
Everyone (especially Winblows users) should get one.
Hypocrisy is unChristian??
First I’ve heard of this..
The new iMac is rather nice. My potential switcher has finally switched to a 20″ iMac. He’d have bought ages ago, but just couldn’t make his mind up about which machine to get.
The good news is that I get my 400MHz G4 back from him. I’ve just got to figure out what to use it for now. I may turn it into some kind of media server.
Sum Yung Gai – Great post!
Oh, so Jesus was a rabbi? That’s a first (and i don’t mean post).
I can see that since we mac users are regarded as zealous religious fantatics, there is no point denying the fact that each night I pary to lord Steve for a G5 powerbook, and to enlighten the pc-heathens out there that there is a nirvana after all.
we are all missionaries…. Missionaries of Mac, in other words MOMs
Lol
hs: Rabbi – a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher. He was Jewish and did a fair bit of teaching so yes I think he counts as a Rabbi.
ph8te: The Lord Jobs in his most infinite wisodm will probably grant your wish ,but only when you don’t need one! – it’s usually the way of religion. Ho hum!!
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Anyway back to the topic – any publicity Apple can get for their better products (lets face it not everything out of Cupertino is great – iPod socks!!??!!) in the mainstream press has to be good news, and the fact that not only was it the best in a computer category but the best in a much broader category is very good news indeed.
Well done Jonathan Ive and the team and well done Fortune!
Any anecdotal evidence out there of seeing new-to-Mac people buying a new Mac????
Or is this just vapor hype that is going in one ear and out the other?
Mac�s great, but only Mac people buying replacment macs???
Want to laugh at a PC ?
Warning: You may lose your lunch…
As for real evidence of switching. I got this mail at the weekend:
I went to Brighton today and there is now a 20″ iMac on my desk. I am managing to block out the occasional faint calls of —– and the children while I immerse myself in the experience.
You should come and have a nose at some point!
I guess this makes me an official convert – well done – and thank you!
J—-
Anecdotal disclaimer: My friend’s wife, who is tech-savvy, is getting a PowerBook next month.
The only thing noteworthy is that it is a personal purchase that will be used for work in a Windows-centric English department at a large university.
A/V scans and updating defs. Two versions of ad/spyware detection and removal tools, because one does not seem to catch everything. An “endless” stream of MS security updates that break apps, then having to wait for a vendor patch or workaround.
Her rationale for switching is simple: She is tired of working for her computer instead of her students.
Was the iMac created or did it evolve?