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R.I.P. Original iMac: 1998-2003

Posted by michael on from the all-in-one dept.

Joey Patterson writes "CNET News.com reports that, after five years, Apple has stopped selling the gumdrop-shaped iMac to the general public."

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  1. education takes a backseat as usual by inputsprocket · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...but still avalailable to educational establishments.
    What's with that? They think that schools are so used to old equipment, they can continue to flog their discontiued lines to them???!

  2. Annoying fruit, iMac, dead at 5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple is dying!

  3. A great loss for the gay community by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Truly the iMac was a homosexual icon, the Liberace of personal computing.

    More brave fags were outed at CompUSA while shopping for their iMacs than in all the gay pride parades in the land.

  4. Re:No biggie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean the infusion of cash equal to around 15% of what Apple had on reserve at the time? That cash did very little for Apple.

  5. The iMac is dead... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... long live the iTit!

  6. Attention: Mac-Fags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    (build a computer AND install Linux AND grow a penis)

    OR

    (buy a Macintosh AND move to France AND ass-rim other pretty, pretty men)