It was a rough start to Apple’s new flagship line. In July 2000, Apple was quick to move on from the awkward first models of the Power Mac G4. It revised the machines, now all using the AGP-based ...

Meanwhile, more powerful chips meant better cooling was required, which a small chassis like that of the iMac G4 could not ...

The G5 processor was designed was to be put into multi-processor machines, which Apple sold at the upper end of its product range. In practice, these numbers meant that the Power Mac G5 ran circles ...

Apple used to be more experimental with Mac designs, whether out of necessity or genuine interest. Sometimes this succeeded, as in the case of the iMac G4, but there were also notable failures ...