> This is to say that I remember things like the original iMac with CRT display, 233MHz G3 processor, 13" screen (when people wanted 15-17" screens), and an atr

> This is to say that I remember things like the original iMac with CRT display, 233MHz G3 processor, 13" screen (when people wanted 15-17" screens), and an atrocious mouse going against Intel machines for half the price with nearly double the speed and better specs on everything other than aesthetics. Things were really bad trying to argue that someone should spend $1,300 for an iMac when they could get a Gateway, eMachine, Acer, etc. for $600 with a 400MHz processor rather than 233MHz. A year later, Apple's at 266MHz while Intel has released the Pentium III and is cranking it up from 400MHz to 600MHz that year. There are a lot of inaccuracies in your memories. The original iMac came out in 1998. At the time Apple’s G3 processors were very competitive with everything offered by Intel: http://macspeedzone.com/archive/4.0/WinvsMacbytemark.html http://macspeedzone.com/archive/4.0/WinvsMacbytemark.html And you were not getting double performance machines for half the price of the iMac. You are also incorrect about the performance situation one year later which would be 1999. Yes, that was the year the top of the line Pentium III came out at 600 MHz, but it was also the year that the top of the line Power Mac G4 came out at 500 MHz (a machine I owned after it was delayed because yields on the 500 model were poor (we were offered a 450 MHz part as a replacement)). The G4 500 was superior to the P3 600 in many benchmarks, and crushed it in others thanks to the altivec vector unit: http://macspeedzone.com/archive/4.0/g4vspent3signal.html http://macspeedzone.com/archive/4.0/g4vspent3signal.html I just linked to one pretty biased site here (first that came up on Google). But your extraordinary claims need some source because I don’t remember it like that at all in 1998 and 1999. PPC was a solid contender throughout the late 90s. Also the original iMac had a 15” screen, not 13”. I had an iMac too.