iMac G4: When Apple Design Was Different

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  • Опубліковано 4 лис 2024

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  • @schlickit628
    @schlickit628 4 дні тому +16

    It’s reached perfection. Automotive manufacturing went through a similar experimental explosion and then settled on what became the obvious best way to do it.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +5

      @@schlickit628 I agree. Still, can’t help but feel nostalgic about the old stuff, cheers 🤟

  • @glendc2945
    @glendc2945 День тому +1

    Something nostalgic watching this on my iMac M1, I've owned a mid 2007 intel iMac before this and my parents had this G4 iMac. Miss those times.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  День тому

      @@glendc2945 hey, man, so glad this took you back ❤️

  • @TechToTunes
    @TechToTunes 4 дні тому +5

    Good old Drmes - Likely Croatian because of spelling in songs. Suze Liju Plave Oci is sung by Ivica Serfezi. I played keys for him when he toured Australia many years ago. Great to see in a retro computer video lol

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +2

      @@TechToTunes Holy crap, that’s super awesome 🤟🤟 You’re right, I am Croatian! Glad you liked the video, cheers!

  • @djplonghead5403
    @djplonghead5403 2 дні тому +3

    1:18 Steve Jobs isn’t just boasting about everything but actually helps people understand the constraints and reasons behind the product.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  2 дні тому

      @@djplonghead5403 Yep. Quite a good product announcement, I enjoy watching his keynotes in general.

  • @goclunker
    @goclunker 2 дні тому +3

    you can install ANY IDE drive into a imac g4 ( i did this many times) Everything will work including the eject button. I usually upgraded them with a LG DVD RW drive

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  2 дні тому

      @@goclunker yep, I did that as well on several models, although I did have to remove the faceplate entirely for it to be able to eject. Cheers!

    • @goclunker
      @goclunker 2 дні тому +1

      @ yes, faceplate and door faceplate has to be removed

  • @PearComputingDevices
    @PearComputingDevices 3 дні тому +2

    I still think the black macbook was the nicest looking carbonate based notebooks ever made. It took years before the industry, namely Dell with their latitude series came close.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  3 дні тому

      @@PearComputingDevices I also like the black MacBook. And it doesn’t yellow like the white model.

  • @AmCanTech
    @AmCanTech 4 дні тому +3

    2024 = year of titanium

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому

      @@AmCanTech It’s funny, because they have the same issue the old titanium PowerBooks had lol. They’re just very brittle.

  • @KernelGhost
    @KernelGhost 4 дні тому +6

    It's quite impressive to see the Mac run a WinXP VM (x86) reasonably well on a PowerPC processor. I wonder what emulation optimisations were used to pull that off.

    • @jensputzlocher8345
      @jensputzlocher8345 4 дні тому +2

      Back in that days i used virtual PC to emulate Windows on my ibook G4. XP was a pain, win2000 ran better. Last week i found my win 2000 virtual hard Disk file on an old backup HDD. So it was time to revive the only PowerMac i own today, an iMac G5 someone donated me for free about six years ago. I erased Lubuntu 16 and created a Dualboot system macos10.4/Debian ppc 12.0. It took me hours and the only thing i had to find by now is my original package of virtual pc.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      @@KernelGhost heh, it never worked as well as parallels, which makes total sense, given the architecture. And it ate up a LOT of system resources. But it did work, and for certain people it was a dealbreaker

  • @frantisekcerny6677
    @frantisekcerny6677 3 дні тому +2

    when the turbofolk imac starts turbofolkin'

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  3 дні тому +1

      @@frantisekcerny6677 It started bopping out it’s head immediately 😂

  • @musgawp
    @musgawp 4 дні тому +4

    Great. Thanks. We had one and when Katherine died i played a beautiful slide show, with suitable music (e.g. where is the love), of all the photos from birth to 17! 😢

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +3

      @@musgawp Gosh, sorry for your loss. Glad this took you back. Much love ❤️

  • @b3c5
    @b3c5 4 дні тому +2

    happy Halloween. I love aluminum and glass!
    But the plastic will always beat the modern design.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      @@b3c5 Happy Halloween to you too man! ❤️

  • @wingkei1314
    @wingkei1314 12 годин тому +1

    One of the only computers that I will probably never sell.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  9 годин тому

      Keep it and enjoy it man 🤟

  • @diegosanchez-su6wv
    @diegosanchez-su6wv День тому +1

    The macbook air you have is the 2010 redesign or was it late 2009, but the original one had a different design, the 2008 and early 2009 was different, more curved, it had a open close lid for the USB, headphone jack, and video, it was still different enough but point taken.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  День тому

      @@diegosanchez-su6wv Yep, I don’t have an original in my collection yet 😁

  • @PearComputingDevices
    @PearComputingDevices 3 дні тому +2

    The iMac G4 might have been a unique design. The eMac was much faster and cheaper of course. In 2002 the design was epic but that flat screen really made the product rather expensive, and the round base made upgrade options rather limited. It's true cost wasn't felt until the customer needed more from that machine. The eMac was easily a better, more capable value over all.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  3 дні тому

      @@PearComputingDevices agreed. I think it also might’ve been loosing Apple money, because it seemed just so hard and expensive to produce.

  • @ro1934
    @ro1934 День тому +1

    Весь алюминий ушел на технику апл. Но вот цилиндр мне у них понравился, его покупали для расчета всяких мат. уровнений и подобных задач в каком-то универе, тк он отлично справлялся за счет 2 гпу (сейчас уже не вспомню где)
    У тебя стол-книжка?
    На музыке ждал, что ты включишь ремув кебаб и прочие турбофолки. хДД

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  День тому

      @@ro1934 не знаю, я бы с удовольствием сделал обзор цилиндра (так как мне самому интересно, что это за фигня), но поскольку они провалились (хотя бы с точки зрения продаж), их довольно таки трудно найти здесь. Как минимум по нормальной цене.
      Да, стол Икеа 😂 у меня квартира маленькая, а его проще убрать когда не пользуется. Только были случаи, когда не знал, выдержит ли он, особенно под весом всего моего хлама 😂 на всякий случай под него ставлю другой столик. Да мне пиздец правда сейчас негде снимать и делать видео 😂
      По поводу музыки, да, много чего нашел… 😁

  •  4 дні тому +1

    WOW! Vremenska kapsula. Čestitam. Upravo sam nabavio jedan G4 i spremam se za cjelokupni retrofit. Tek toliko da bude upotrebljiv u ova moderna vremena. BTW imaš nekih preporuka u tom smjeru?

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому

      Hej, hvala ti puno! Kao, stavljat ćeš unutra moderne komponente? Mislim najvjerojatnije je najlakše uzet tu ploču koju samo ubaciš unutra umjesto stare matične (koristi originalno napajanje i kablove i sve) i onda spojit na neki mali Mac mini ili Intel nuc ili nešto. Za ovo ostalo je malo zeznutije vjerojatno spojiti video i naći neku ploču koja pase unutra i ima portove na sličnom mjestu (okrugla je originalna). Sretno!

    •  2 дні тому +1

      @@schvabek Unutra ide matična iz nekog mini PC-a (vjerojatno Asus NUC 13 Pro Desk Edition Mini PC ili nešto jako slično). To bi trebalo biti dovoljno maleno i snažno za surf i multimediju. Portovi će biti problem,ali malo 3D printa,lasera i puno živaca...možda i uspije, Na ovom G4 kojeg imam je monitor 15" pa ne znam kako će me ta rezolucija zadovoljiti,ali nešto ćemo smisliti.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  2 дні тому

      Ajde, sretno s projektom! Nadam se da će te dobro služiti i da ces uživati u njemu :)

  • @wantikjasonchiu4711
    @wantikjasonchiu4711 4 дні тому +1

    I know that Apple have switched to aluminum and glass materials, but don’t forget even though some of those products might have the aluminum as very thick outer case and the other one’s very thin outer case but it’s the same thing because the screen is glass the same thing it will eventually if example you felt it on the floor it would still be quite easily to break and bend and crack as examples the previous materials like if the screen was still using plastic, it would be Much more durable and even dropped on the floor. The screen would not break that easily as for glass it would crack very easily if you did not have applied a proper screen protector and so I was thinking that maybe Apple changed to use this design it is not so good design for a better durable product.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому

      @@wantikjasonchiu4711 Hey, thanks so much for commenting! I don’t think durability is why they switched to using aluminium and glass. It’s just a more premium feeling material.

  • @rajkom8302
    @rajkom8302 3 дні тому +1

    Ex Yu stara dobra muzika. A imas i moravac

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  3 дні тому +1

      @@rajkom8302 Haha, ma svega je bilo gore 😂🤟 Bas me razveselilo. Pozdrav!

  • @theny54guy
    @theny54guy 4 дні тому +1

    remembers about that one lenovo thinkpad x300 ad

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      Hahaha I know which one 😂

  • @waylonbronco4648
    @waylonbronco4648 3 дні тому +2

    Montenegro that's my guess

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  3 дні тому

      @@waylonbronco4648 Wow, that’s a good guess! Close!

  • @GetWiththeProgramGaming
    @GetWiththeProgramGaming 4 дні тому +2

    Happy holloween night!

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +2

      @@GetWiththeProgramGaming Happy Halloween to you to 🤟❤️

  • @BarackObamasLeftTestical
    @BarackObamasLeftTestical 6 годин тому +1

    5:18 why does he put the cable around the hole and not in the hole?

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  6 годин тому

      I was just showing it off, not actually setting it up or using it 🤷‍♂️

  • @cidsx
    @cidsx 2 дні тому +1

    26:50 it’s japanese btw

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  2 дні тому

      @@cidsx Thanks for letting me know!

  • @CRYPTiCEXiLE
    @CRYPTiCEXiLE 4 дні тому +1

    Great video, yeah I really like these old mac computers back then I could never afford them, I just always done hackintosh and man did I ever done hackintosh and I know it was on some intel or amd computer box that wasn't fancy or anything, but I always love macOS and still till this day I love macOS, it's BSD Unix call Darwin, it's a solid system works well, it's stable I never had any issues with macOS. Today mac honestly I really don't like them, I hate the fact they are really killing homebrew and hackintosh and also the all in one chip I feel like apple is just wasting computers cause their macOS just gets unsupported when my 2011 iMac with hacks can run macOS 10.15 on it with not really much issues really. I wish apple would open source OSX 10.8x and 10.9x cause man with FreeBSD ports or macports we can use it like a FreeBSD system with a great desktop, imagine having the older OSX desktop on linux that would be cool, but yeah a great OS again gone in the trash as well.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      @@CRYPTiCEXiLE Hey, man, thanks for commenting! Glad you liked the video. Yeah, they have definitely gotten less serviceable and exploitable. We’re getting to the point where if you’d like to do what you want with your computer, you’ll have to “jailbreak” it or something. Cheers!

  • @JoBot__
    @JoBot__ 3 дні тому +2

    26:49 That's Japanese.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  3 дні тому +1

      @@JoBot__ hey, thanks for letting me know! 🤟

    • @JoBot__
      @JoBot__ 2 дні тому +1

      @@schvabek 👍

  • @DimasFajar-ns4vb
    @DimasFajar-ns4vb 4 дні тому +1

    banana and mango tree is better sometimes than apple tree or blackberry plant

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      @@DimasFajar-ns4vb I mean, sure 😂🤟

    • @DimasFajar-ns4vb
      @DimasFajar-ns4vb 4 дні тому

      @schvabek orlando gardener youtube channel

  • @gentuxable
    @gentuxable 4 дні тому +1

    29:46 looks more like japanese to me.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому

      @@gentuxable very well could be, can’t read either one.

  • @bryan_ferrer
    @bryan_ferrer 4 дні тому +1

    The trashcan Mac was ahead of its time, but as with any product marketing, it happened to be at the wrong time. The components used were somewhat inappropriate, even for Intel, which I never fully expected to deliver efficient or leap-forward engineering. The dual graphics integration is/was a great idea but tech corporations are greedy and want to fool consumers into spending more on their products. Hence, not supporting the idea even for the Windows-Gaming sector. My only gripe is how ridiculous the assembly is. They could have used a slide in method with a foam on each corner and one bracket for example to support the components. The number of screws to remember just to clean the fan and replace the thermal requires like a degree in surgery 😅

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      @@bryan_ferrer I mean, I’m all for it, but not for a high end professional customer, who wants to be able to access, upgrade and clean the machine. They went from that enormous aluminium case to a trash can. It was also a flop in regards to sold numbers. I’d still like to play with one, though! 😂

    • @reatcas
      @reatcas 2 дні тому +1

      With the trashcan they failed the principle Steve Jobs mentioned before. "If something wants to be flat, let it be flat, if it's squared, let it be squared" They failed to recognize that the mac pro wants to be squared in order to be modular and upgradeable and they tried to force it into a cylinder.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  2 дні тому

      @ That’s a good point! Surely at least one of the reasons it flopped. Cheers!

  • @zenmaster24
    @zenmaster24 4 дні тому +2

    croatia?

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +2

      @@zenmaster24 Bravo 😂🤟

  • @TheBasementChannel
    @TheBasementChannel 4 дні тому +2

    When Apple design was interesting. Now it’s just slabs or cubes. Yawn.

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      The early design really was… bright and edgy🤟

  • @rinnin
    @rinnin 4 дні тому +1

    I think they were the first with multitouch trackpads. Then everyone else followed

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому

      @@rinnin They did have the multitouch patent for the iPhone, so possibly

  • @thethriftyfawn
    @thethriftyfawn 4 дні тому +1

    Thumbs up if the sounds of that malfunctioning disc drive made you grind your teeth! 😬
    👇

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      @@thethriftyfawn Ugh, man, it felt horrible too 😂

  • @alanbutcherer4907
    @alanbutcherer4907 4 дні тому +1

    Apple were always boring. That's the result of minimalism

    • @schvabek
      @schvabek  4 дні тому +1

      @@alanbutcherer4907 I found their early design quite exciting 🤷‍♂️