Tag: os x

The Leading i

2000

iMac

  • Operating System – Mac OS 9.0.4
  • Processor – 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB Memory
  • Graphics – ATI Rage 128 Pro, 8MB of memory (8 million triangles)
  • Screen – 786K pixels
  • Data Transfer Speeds – 1.3-12.5 MB/s (DVD-ROM-1/100 Ethernet)
  • Storage – 30GB Hard Drive
  • Dimensions – 15.0 x 15.0 x 17.1 inches
  • Weight – 34.7 pounds
  • Inflation adjusted 2010 Price: $1479.05

    2010

    iPhone 4

  • Operating System – iOS 4.0
  • Processor – 1 Ghz ARM A4 CPU, 512MB Memory
  • Graphics – PowerVR SGX 535, uses system memory (28 million triangles)
  • Screen – 614K pixels
  • Data Transfer Speeds – .04-20MB/s (3G-WiFi)
  • Storage – 32GB Flash Drive
  • Dimensions – 4.5 x 2.31 x .31 inches
  • Weight – 4.8 ounces
  • Unsubsidized Price: $699

    Worth noting that, in the year 2000, I only had one pair of pants in which I could comfortably fit an iMac.

    • Metastasis

    Simple Finder. It’s been around in one form or another since OS 7 or 8. Here’s what it looks like nowadays:

    Remind you of anything? Starting to get some ideas about how the product line could be integrated by the iTablet? How such a device could be made to have just enough Mac in it to be useful while Macs could be made to have just enough iTablet and iPhone in them to be instantly understandable to a hoard of potential new users? How those users would be trained from the get-go to buy apps and other content through Apple/iTunes? How the “what it does” question could be instantly forgotten with a single stroke?

    It’s a computing product. It occupies the space between an iPhone and an iBook. And it makes everything else around it fall into place.

    It’s what’s coming. It’s what it does.