Introduction

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nearly dead

When I first heard about the iMac I went like "Hey, great! At last: a affordable Macintosh for me. Let's buy it". Then came the iMac day at apple friends. I grabbed Flo by the hand, back in 1998, and had him attend it with me. Cool, we thought. Really neat and good looking.

"It can display up to 1'024x768 pixel on this neato little display" told us the shop assistant. "Of course I'd recommend you 800x600 pixel, they are much nicer to look at". Yeah, right. And 1'024x768 pixel can only be shown with "thousands of colors" which is pretty useless for graphics, I figured out at home, after buying it.

I found out, that this piece of history is quite loud, the CD-ROM tray won't come out, the mouse isn't too usable and the expensive heap of plastic is slower than any other computer I was used at that time.

Memory

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128 MB of memory

I've been computer science student for three years already back then. So I came to the conclusion: This baby needs more memory. Loads of it. And I went and bought more memory.

There was the first bummer. "We can only replace the existing 64 MB of RAM. And: it's quite expensive, too. Are you really sure you want to buy that?". Of course I was. I went home with a freshly upgraded Macintosh, bought my copy of MacOS 9 (the Mac shipped with 8.something) and was looking forward to a speed improvement.

I wasn't too sure about the speed improvement and lost my interest in the iMac. It's been too loud, took too much space on my desk and felt... well, slow.