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20 Macs for 2020: #1 – iMac G3The 20 Macs for 2020 Series
1. iMac G3
2. PowerBook 140/170
3. Macintosh 128K
4. MacBook Air (2nd generation)
5. Titanium PowerBook G4
6. Macintosh SE/30
7. iBook
8. Power Mac G4 Cube
9. iMac G4
10. Power Computing clones
11. Macintosh Portable
12. Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
13. Mac IIcx and IIci
14. Mac mini
15. DayStar Genesis MP
16. Blue-and-White Power Mac G3
17. PowerBook 500 & 5300
18. Xserve
19. PowerBook Duo
20. Power Mac G5
You can divide Mac history in a bunch of different ways. But perhaps the clearest line of demarcation is the mid-1998 release of the original iMac.
The first era of the Mac, begun in 1984, was ending as Steve Jobs returned to Apple. The Apple of the mid-1990s licensed the Mac to clonemakers and even allowed them to invent key technology. Its product design lab created wild and creative prototypes that occasionally escaped, but most shipping products were so beige they were begging for reinvention.
The Mac OS itself was also foundering. It needed to be replaced, and the arrival of Windows 95 had accelerated the Mac’s rapid fade into oblivion. But Apple had failed in multiple attempts to reinvent Mac OS, and ultimately had to turn to outside companies to provide it with an answer. Imagine that sad state of affairs: Apple, a company that prided itself on an expert fusion of hardware and software engineering, was talking to Microsoft about licensing the Windows NT kernel, or to former employee Jean-Louis Gasseé about buying his upstart BeOS, or (in the most unlikely and yet dramatically obvious move) founder Steve Jobs about buying his post-Apple company. Meanwhile, it was being stalked by other tech companies, with a serious report suggesting that Sun Microsystems was close to swallowing Apple whole.
In the end, as we all know, Steve Jobs returned to Apple and brought NextStep with him. That operating system became the foundation of the Mac’s renaissance and the basis of the iPhone, as well.
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