Today marks the 20th anniversary of Apple announcing the iMac G4. Unveiled on January 7, 2002, the iMac G4 featured a unique design with a flat screen mounted on an adjustable arm and a hemispherical base housing the internal components of the computer.

Nicknamed the lamp or the sunflower, the iMac G4 was innovative for its time as an all-in-one computer with a flat screen that could be moved around freely.

“The new iMac ushers in the era of flat-panel computing for everyone. The CRT display is now officially dead,” former Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a press release announcing the iMac G4. “And with its powerful G4 processor and SuperDrive, anyone can now create and cost-effectively burn your own personalized DVDs and CDs. »

Key features of the iMac G4 included a 15-inch LCD flat screen, PowerPC G4 700MHz or 800MHz processor options, base-mounted SuperDrive for CD/DVD, up to 60GB hard drive , up to 1 GB of RAM, two FireWire ports, and five USB ports. By late 2003, Apple had also released larger 17-inch and 20-inch displays.

In his 2002 review of the iMac G4 for Macworld, longtime Apple journalist Jason Snell described the computer as "nothing short of a triumph."

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