The iMac was the first ever computer intended for home and office use. It was later copied by Microsoft to produce the first PC. Since then, Microsoft PC sales have outstripped Macintosh sales. Today, the Macintosh only makes up around 4.5% of worldwide computer system sales.
The most basic Mac system can cost many times more than the most advanced Microsoft PC. Having said this, thay are much more reliable (their UNIX-like infrastructure being far less suceptible to the 114000 odd viruses that attack PCs). The Mac is generally prefered for multimedia manipulation and is used by many people in the film industry, artists, music composers, architects and generally creative people. One noted Mac enthusiast is Mr Stephen Fry.
Only recently has Apple started incorporating Intel processors into the iMac product line. You cannot, however, remove an Intel processor from a Mac and expect it to work in a PC (It just does not work - different processor structure and all...).
When the Mac was first launched, Apple put all of its funding into copyrighting its processor design and as a result of which, ran out of money to pay its design team and programmers. So they paid their team with shares of the company instead... During this time, the PC processor design was not copyrighted - which of course meant that anyone could manufacture them (note AMD, Intel, IBM & Cyrix) which of course would keep the price down.
But on the whole, PCs are cheaper and Macs are more reliable. Macs cannot be upgraded for a simple reason: you don't need to - they're powerful enough (some have 8-core processors and 32 GB RAM, 5 TerraByte storage etc).
The most basic Mac system can cost many times more than the most advanced Microsoft PC. Having said this, thay are much more reliable (their UNIX-like infrastructure being far less suceptible to the 114000 odd viruses that attack PCs). The Mac is generally prefered for multimedia manipulation and is used by many people in the film industry, artists, music composers, architects and generally creative people. One noted Mac enthusiast is Mr Stephen Fry.
Only recently has Apple started incorporating Intel processors into the iMac product line. You cannot, however, remove an Intel processor from a Mac and expect it to work in a PC (It just does not work - different processor structure and all...).
When the Mac was first launched, Apple put all of its funding into copyrighting its processor design and as a result of which, ran out of money to pay its design team and programmers. So they paid their team with shares of the company instead... During this time, the PC processor design was not copyrighted - which of course meant that anyone could manufacture them (note AMD, Intel, IBM & Cyrix) which of course would keep the price down.
But on the whole, PCs are cheaper and Macs are more reliable. Macs cannot be upgraded for a simple reason: you don't need to - they're powerful enough (some have 8-core processors and 32 GB RAM, 5 TerraByte storage etc).
Stephen Fry: "Yes... I love the iMac. Not the PC... *makes spitting noise (to signify spitting on a PC)*"
Steve J: "I've got a new computer with 32 Gigs RAM and an octi-core cpu..."
Bill G: "I've got a new computer. I've got 2 gigs of RAM and a dual core cpu with support for all the games in the world and tons of software is fully... oh crap... its crashed again."
Steve J: "I've got a new computer with 32 Gigs RAM and an octi-core cpu..."
Bill G: "I've got a new computer. I've got 2 gigs of RAM and a dual core cpu with support for all the games in the world and tons of software is fully... oh crap... its crashed again."
by IP Address August 1, 2007
'IMac" stands for "I Milk and cream"
From my sources it was first wrote out by ranboolivesaysstuff on Tumblr during June of 2023.
From my sources it was first wrote out by ranboolivesaysstuff on Tumblr during June of 2023.
by Rare(•‿•) June 20, 2023
1.An antiquated machine with the only quality able to redeem it is how shiny it is. 2. A shiny, expensive paperweight. 3. A piece of shit that gets worse with every generation. 4. An item designed to make stupid people feel important in the computing world. 5. The only computer in the world with a 1-button mouse.
by Apple Computers January 20, 2016
A type of computer, superior to windows, which has vibrant displays of pretty colors and often requires an art degree to use.
A toy.
A toy.
by DarkX July 5, 2005
A type of personal computer with just only a screen manufactured by Apple. Mostly use for work. Many people like it but most gamers think it's trash since it can't run most games they could play on Windows and it costs about $1500. With those money, you could buy a Beast Gaming PC.
a. I got a new iMac! My dad bought it for me.
b. It's trash, your dad wasted a lot money for that piece of shit.
b. It's trash, your dad wasted a lot money for that piece of shit.
by ExplodingGuy June 23, 2018
A term refering to masturbating.
What you call somebody that is a super faget and has no life and always plays videogames.
This person will Have Alteast 50 days on each game he has played and is a super acheivement hunter.
What you call somebody that is a super faget and has no life and always plays videogames.
This person will Have Alteast 50 days on each game he has played and is a super acheivement hunter.
Guy- Wow This kid has no life
Guy2- Yea he has 50 days on Mw2
Guy3- This Kids is so IMac Off
Guy4- I am going to Mac Off
Guy2- Yea he has 50 days on Mw2
Guy3- This Kids is so IMac Off
Guy4- I am going to Mac Off
by Manlyman474444 November 5, 2010
An iMac desktop computer produced and sold by Apple from 2002 to 2004. The iMac G4 was designed by Steve Jobs using the robot workbench in Fallout 4. Taking a Mister Handy, he added an LCD frame to the top factory torso armor, which was mounted via an adjustable arm. The spherical front factory armor was cut horizontally in half and everything under the top half was scrapped and re-purposed for use in future models. Removing all of the eyes from the Mister Handy allowed space for a tray-loading optical drive mod to be installed. Jobs found a mod on Nexus that allowed adding a PowerPC G4 74xx CPU to a Mister Handy's motherboard in the robot workbench, and used this in his design. As the finishing touch, white paint was applied to the bot and both Mac OS 9.2 + Mac OS X 10.1 were installed. Bethesda Softworks was impressed by this design and recognized Jobs for spending $14.99 on the Automatron DLC.
by Dead Cardboard Box September 7, 2016