Gone were the cutesy colors and childish nature of the infant iMac G3 as well as the nose and lip piercings of the teenage iMac G4 that made sure it stood out of a crowd. This machine was simply a neutral white rectangle, less than 2РІР‚Сњ thick, held aloft by a single piece of aluminum. The iMac G5 was far more mature in comparison to its predecessors. It was the day that Apple introduced the iMac G5. On Augat the Apple Expo in Paris, Phil Schiller took to the stage to announce 'one more thingРІР‚Сњ РІР‚вЂњ a complete redesign of their flagship Mac. That form factor lasted just over two years. It was certainly unique and, love it or hate it, proved to be very popular. Although that limitation had gone, Apple still focused on the display and took a very original approach to mounting it on a swing arm. The iMac G3РІР‚в„ўs design had to focus around the sheer volume of a CRT. The iMac G4 (referred to by some as the iLamp) was the first major redesign of the iMac as Apple switched to LCD screens and was a radical departure to the original iMacРІР‚в„ўs design. The iMac G3 bowed out after three years before the next iteration arrived. The original iMac, a CRT housed in a translucent case, saved Apple and cemented itself into popular culture that is, even today, still an iconic design.

ItРІР‚в„ўs a form factor that owes its beginnings to the iMac G5.

Sure, itРІР‚в„ўs had a coat of paint, a change of clothes and itРІР‚в„ўs gotten bigger whilst losing weight, but the fundamental form factor of the iMac that we see today has been unchanged for almost ten years, a chinned display with (up until recently) a side-mounted optical drive. But thatРІР‚в„ўs not the case and, in fact, since the introduction of the iMac in 1998 it has had only two major design changes. YouРІР‚в„ўd think that if we looked over the lineage of the iMac, weРІР‚в„ўd see a number of major design changes as time went on. This year celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the iMac. This monthРІР‚в„ўs post is by Jordan Merrick, a freelance writer and web designer who runs Sparsebundle, a UK-based blog about technology, Apple, web design, video games.

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