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Robo
Formerly Roboman, still
awesome
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
 
2009-08-31, 20:47

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Originally Posted by pscates2.0 View Post
Nothing "bad", but, as Robo points out, it was the exact machine Jobs shot down or poo-pooed a couple of years earlier, upon the introduction of the iMac G4 ("we could've just glommed the guts onto the back, but each element wouldn't be true to itself...flat screen displays want to be flat and thin, drives want to be horizontal..." and so forth). He made a big point of how they didn't take the easy, expected route with an AIO flat-screen computer.
Yeah. I bought one of the iMac G5s (the 1.9 GHz iSight/Front Row model) so it obviously wasn't horrible.

But it was sort of a step backwards, from the elegant, adjustable iMac G4. The iMac G5 was visually very heavy, which was a total reversal from the iMac G4, which practically floated on air. I hated the iMac G5 at first.

and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong