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We had the colorful ones at my first onsite dev job (a design agency) and they were constantly crashing, so my experience was 100% negative. Honestly surprised

by wink 3y ago

We had the colorful ones at my first onsite dev job (a design agency) and they were constantly crashing, so my experience was 100% negative. Honestly surprised about people having good memories. OS X was pretty nice when it launched, that would have been the time where I had pinpointed some saving.

wildrhythms 3y ago
We used an iMac G3 for years to run a live production lighting and sound system (as late as 2006) and it was very reliable, I can't remember it crashing once.
- wil421 3y ago
  I used them for years in school and everyone hated them. Not sure if it was the software or hardware. Same issue with my friends pre-iMac Mac. We could barely get through a game without beach ball spinning forever or crashing.
  - yankput 3y ago
    Yeah the original article is a bit of rose tinted glasses. The iMacs were pretty and started a lot of HW innovation but the actual experience of using them was not great. OS 8/OS 9 were still bad operating systems, and the first few releases of OS X were not very stable either.
  - celsoazevedo 3y ago
    Similar experience at my school. Almost every computer was a PC, but we had a room with 10-15 blue G3 and sometimes we had to use them to "research" for school projects. I didn't hated them, but we avoided them because they were noticeably slower than the PCs we had. I also remember the mouse being a bit weird. They looked nice, but didn't work as well for us as the boring beige towers.
speedgoose 3y ago
The experience could depend on the software people were running. Mac OS 8 and 9 didn’t even have memory protection. A program with faulty memory management, which wasn’t uncommon since it was before the creation of the wonderful and magnificent Rust, could very well destroy the runtime memory of other programs and even the kernel…
- wink 3y ago
  What I personally used most? Browsers, IE 5.5 and Netscape. My coworkers? Probably whatever version of Photoshop was current back then. I wouldn't call that particularly weird.

by wink 3y ago

wildrhythms 3y ago

We used an iMac G3 for years to run a live production lighting and sound system (as late as 2006) and it was very reliable, I can't remember it crashing once.

wil421 3y ago
I used them for years in school and everyone hated them. Not sure if it was the software or hardware. Same issue with my friends pre-iMac Mac. We could barely get through a game without beach ball spinning forever or crashing.
- yankput 3y ago
  Yeah the original article is a bit of rose tinted glasses. The iMacs were pretty and started a lot of HW innovation but the actual experience of using them was not great. OS 8/OS 9 were still bad operating systems, and the first few releases of OS X were not very stable either.
- celsoazevedo 3y ago
  Similar experience at my school. Almost every computer was a PC, but we had a room with 10-15 blue G3 and sometimes we had to use them to "research" for school projects. I didn't hated them, but we avoided them because they were noticeably slower than the PCs we had. I also remember the mouse being a bit weird. They looked nice, but didn't work as well for us as the boring beige towers.

speedgoose 3y ago

The experience could depend on the software people were running. Mac OS 8 and 9 didn’t even have memory protection. A program with faulty memory management, which wasn’t uncommon since it was before the creation of the wonderful and magnificent Rust, could very well destroy the runtime memory of other programs and even the kernel…

wink 3y ago
What I personally used most? Browsers, IE 5.5 and Netscape. My coworkers? Probably whatever version of Photoshop was current back then. I wouldn't call that particularly weird.