![]() ![]() The first use of the term "iMac" in PC Magazine was in our J(Opens in a new window) issue: It was a low-cost ISDN adapter called PC IMAC, and it was magnitudes less interesting than the iconic, colorful, all-in-one PC that Apple announced in the summer of 1998. (My colleague Sascha Segan feels we were right more often than we were wrong, but also found five big things we were wrong about, so be sure to check out his viewpoint as well.) The iMac: Steve Jobs Reimagines the Desktop PC This is 40 years of PCMag in six shortish stories about key subjects we returned to often: the Apple iMac, the game Myst, the IBM (later Lenovo) ThinkPad, the Apple iPhone, Google's Android OS, and the singular, transformational technology behind everything: the internet. They show the course of our industry as well as of our publication. Within those dips and valleys, over the decades, a few products appear again and again. And from 1982 to this moment, PCMag has witnessed and chronicled so many rises and falls that our oeuvre resembles a cultural seismogram. Fortunately, we were never wrong for dull reasons. We rarely spotted the trends before they happened, and we were sometimes openly hostile to new and innovative ideas. I reached that simple conclusion after reading hundreds of articles and dozens of back issues of PC Magazine. 2022: Has Technology Really Become More Affordable?
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