10 Year Mac Anniversary

[murrays 0]

10 years ago I received my first iMac shipment. Three days ago I picked up a new iMac. What has changed in 10 years?

iMac DV Special Edition iMac Aluminum Intel
512 mb Ram 4 GB ram 8x
13 GB Hard Drive 500 GB Hard Drive 38X
400 mhz G3 Processor dual core 3.06 GHZ Processor 7x speed
Price - Nearly $3,000 CAD $1100 CAD 1/3 the cost
OS 9.1 OS X.6

I sold the Imac DV several years ago to fund the purchase of a G4 iMac. The buyer was still using it until a couple of years ago. I may buy it back from him just for the hell of it.

10 years: iMac G3 DV SE, iMac G4 800 mhz - the goose neck lamp iMac, Black MacBook 2 ghz and iMac Aluminum Intel 3 ghz. We are still using the last three computers. The G4 iMac chokes on some of the video stuff but otherwise runs great.

Only two trips for repairs...one to retrieve two disks jammed into the slot drive by my 2 & 4 year old boys and another to fix an issue they somehow created booting into OS 9 from OS X to run some of their older games. Every other issue I've had has been solvable by myself. Knock on wood....no hardware failures of any kind. No virus/malware/spyware issues ever.

Hardware improvements aside, OS X has been an incredible development and the current iteration is worlds better than OS 9. And I though OS 9 was pretty good 10 years ago.

Macs have been good for me.

--
Murray

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

[BillyVance 35]

Cool... I still have a Mac SE30 up in the attic from 20+ years ago!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[ifell 0]

I am looking into getting a new laptop but figure I'll wait a few months maybe a year till they all get onboard with the HD trend. Those MacBooks are HOT!