1998 was the Year of the iMac. Announced in May, it didn’t ship until August, and it killed off all those legacy printer, AppleTalk, hard drive, keyboard, and mouse ports with something new called USB. The iMac quickly became the most popular computer on the market.
All editorials by Dan Knight unless otherwise noted.
- Rumors and Speculation: The Future of Claris, 1998.01.13
- Disposable Computers?, 1998.01.15
- Fracturing the Macintosh Market, 1998.01.23
- Apple and CompUSA: For Better or Worse?, 1998.02.03
- Pentium II: Escargot?, 1998.02.06
- Disposable Modems, 1998.02.11
- A Perfect Compact Mac, 1998.02.14
- Macs Need Parallel Ports, updated 1998.02.21
- Newton Becomes History, 1998.03.02
- Macintosh, a Long Term Solution, 1998.03.08
- Internet Tax Freedom Act: A Bad Idea?, 1998.03.11
- Gee3: Let’s Have an Inexpensive Mac!, 1998.04.02
- Not Thinking: University of Texas Business School, 1998.04.21
- No $500 PCs This Year, 1998.04.27
- iMac: Nearly Perfect, 1998.05.07
- iMac: A Second Look, 1998.05.16
- Is Apple Really Back?, 1998.05.22
- Fixing iMac, 1998.05.27
- iMac a True Bargain, 1998.06.10
- Y2K: Mac Owners Beware, 1998.06.15
- Intel: Thinking Different, 1998.06.15
- An Expansion Slot in the iMac?, 1998.06.17
- The iMac: Truly Revolutionary, 1998.06.24
- Congratulations Gateway, HP, 1998.06.24
- The iMac: First of a Family?, 1998.07.05
- The iMac: Perfect for Schools, 1998.07.05
- Planning Ahead, 1998.07.13
- iMac’s Keyboard: The Missing Keys, 1998.08.02
- iMac v. the ‘Top Ten’, 1998.08.02
- Where No Mac Has Gone Before: USB, 1998.08.03
- Operating Systems: Past, Present, and Future, 1998.08.05
- The Tiny iMac, 1998.08.05
- iMac v. $999 PCs, 1998.08.06
- USB and the OfficeJet, 1998.08.09
- What PC Users Are Forgetting: The Long Lost Mac OS, John Kinsella, 1998.08.13
- Here’s the Beef, 1998.08.14
- iMac v. the Macintosh, 1998.08.14
- Apple Too Popular for Its Own Good?, 1998.08.18
- Permanent Email Addresses, 1998.08.18
- Unplanned Obsolescence, 1998.08.20
- Living Large, 1998.08.31
- The iMac: Not for Me, 1998.09.01
- The $400 PC, 1998.09.02
- Foul! Unfair Benchmarks, 1998.09.03
- Video Out on the iMac, 1998.09.03
- Banner Exchanges: Beware the Hype of a 1:1 Ratio, 1998.09.07
- The LCDs Are Coming, 1998.09.09
- Automatic Frustration Machines, 1998.09.15
- Still Useful After All These Years: The Mac Plus, 1998.09.16
- I Want iMacTV, 1998.09.17
- Automatic Frustration Machines, Part 2, 1998.09.23
- Still Useful After All These Years: The Mac II, 1998.09.23
- iMacTV, Take 2, the iMac channel, 1998.09.24
- Oh, Canada!, 1998.09.26
- Apple Must Be Back: They’re Making Mac Viruses Again, 1998.09.30
- Apple Must Outsource Production, 1998.10.05
- Why USB Is a Good Thing, iMac Channel, 1998.10.06
- Can Apple Save Emailer by Giving It Away?, 1998.10.06
- Why I Love the PowerBook G3, 1998.10.07
- Mac OS X: Unix to the Core, 1998.10.08
- HFS+ Nightmares, 1998.10.09
- Beyond HFS+ Nightmares, 1998.10.12
- More Evidence That Macs Last Longer, 1998.10.13
- The iMac 300, iMac Channel, 1998.10.18
- That Extra 10%, 1998.10.24
- Nightmare with Windows, 1998.10.25
- The Revision C iMac, iMac Channel, 1998.10.31
- Windows Can’t Compete, iMac Channel, 1998.11.03
- The $30/month iMac, 1998.11.06. Buying an iMac for $30/month sounds attractive – until you add up the entire amount you’ll be spending!
- Mac 2000 Revisited, 1998.11.09
- Microsoft: Playing to Win, 1998.11.11
- iDream of iMac, iMac Channel, 1998.11.13
- The PowerBook I’ll Buy, 1998.11.17
- Microsoft’s Heavy Hand, 1998.11.24
- Give Thanks, 1998.11.26
- iMac More than Skin-Deep, iMac Channel, 1998.12.18
- Changing Computing Paradigms, 1998.12.21
- iMac Saves Apple?, iMac Channel, 1998.12.26
- Resolution Independent Display, 1998.12.30
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