credit Photo: Apple Bondi Blue = description Released in August 1998, the original "Bondi blue" iMac (its color reportedly named after the waters off an Australian beach) blew beige boxes out of the water. With a $7,499 price tag ($10,277 in today’s money) and limited-edition status, it stood conceptually opposite the universally accessible iMac. The haughty design of the 20th Anniversary Macintosh (1997, lower right), foreshadowed later LCD-display iMacs. Released in early 1998, its specs were similar to the iMac’s, but were available only to educational institutions.
The Power Mac G3 all-in-one (lower left) was the closest Apple ever came to a beige iMac. Apple resurrected its quiet, appliance-like qualities 14 years later. Left: The iMac wasn’t Apple’s first PC to feature a display and motherboard integrated into the same case the original 1984 Macintosh (top center) shared a similar form factor. Here’s a look at the evolution of the iMac: past, present and future. Over the years, the iMac’s trendsetting arc has continued, with a total of four distinct models (and a close family member), some of which shipped in a handful of flavors. Its strong sales reversed Apple’s dire mid-1990s financial situation and enabled the company to get back on the road to relevance.
It also marked the return of Steve Jobs as the visionary, design-obsessed leader that Apple desperately needed. The cute, translucent blue, all-in-one PC was easily the most influential personal computer of the 1990s, heralding a return to simplicity and ease of use and briefly sparking an industrial design fad around clear, colored plastic.
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