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So let me get this right, did Apple now invent LCD all-in-one computers? You do know that they where around prior to even the original iMac (see Sun Voyager for an example)?

While the Sun SPARCstation Voyager did come out in 1994, it was only three years later that Apple released the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. At least the Mac was competitively priced at $7,499 versus the $13,995 of the Voyager... :-)

This is nothing new... this kind of stuff exists since 1989!

...in (almost) every school in the UK. Pretty much each and every British geek of my generation (i.e. born in the early '70's) cut their computing teeth on first the 6502 BBC Micro, then the Acorn Archimedes.

The first Macintosh. I think Apple was so awestruck with the new idea of the GUI that it looks like the keyboard was a mere afterthought with the the first Mac. What they ended up including was designed to encourage mouse-usage; with its heavy-force keystroke requirements and its almost rudimentary nature.

the Atari 400
Anyone remember saving $400 over the price of the full-keyboard Atari 800 by getting one of these things? It spawned a cottage industry of replacement keyboards.

TRS-80 Color Computer. The keyboard on the "ColorTRaSh" was eventually improved, but the earlier models had Fisher-Price written all over.

Or how about Sun's SPARCstation Voyager that came out in 1994?

I had a Newton 100...