What Color Is This iMac?

[TheWhiteFalcon]

All of them were IBM CPU's...

 

[Juliet Elysa]

 

If you look closely, you'll notice that it's a hue-adjusted image of a single iMac, which doesn't account for the changing of textures, etc in different iMac models.

That would definitely explain the texture and transparency differences. The colors also aren't quite bright enough from what I've seen. But it's the only one I could find that showed something blueberryish next to something indigoish, so there ya go.

Putting together an accurate color chart thing with all of the different G3 models represented would be a great project for someone who has access to high quality pictures of them in a light that doesn't distort the colors too much, since this seems to be the only chart that has all of the colors together.

 

[markyb86]

If I ever owned a flower power iMac, I would use it as my main computer and ditch the i5, etc.

 

[SuperToaster]

No, Motorola made PowerPC G3s, as well as IBM.

 

[Garrett]

Eugh, that picture Juliet Elysa linked, with all the iMac colours… Is pretty terrible. If you look closely, you'll notice that it's a hue-adjusted image of a single iMac, which doesn't account for the changing of textures, etc in different iMac models.

The blue dalmatian and flower power are really just photoshopped in.

But it still portrays the message pretty well...

 

[insaneboy]

That's not Blue, it's gold!    wait, that's not a picture of a dress...    

 

[olePigeon]

Sage is still my favorite iMac of that time.

 

[CC_333]

My first love was Tangerine (which i why my first Macs were two Tangerine iMacs and a Tangerine iBook), but I find I'm more fond of blues and greens nowadays. Especially darker blues and turquoises.

However, to be honest, I like it all. Apple did a good job choosing these colors (though they did sort of get a bit out there with the Flower Power and Blue Dalmatian models (even those are somewhat decent looking, though the FP iMac is quite garish looking I think).

Suffice it to say, I like colors!

c

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Colors are clearly big, seeing how well the iDevices (and new MacBook) have done with them. The gold models are extremely popular in all cases.

 

[SuperToaster]

I like all the colors

 

[Juliet Elysa]

Yeah, I love all of the colors too. If I absolutely had to pick a favorite it would be bondi, since my favorite color at the moment is teal. But really they're all gorgeous. Someday it would be nice to collect all the colors and own the rainbow!

 

[olePigeon]

Someone should make an art exhibit with Scratch & Sniff fruity iMacs.

Or perhaps use the heat from the CRT and components to activate the smells on the case.  Aroma therapy iMacs!

 

[CC_333]

I don't mind the Gold, Silver, and Space Gray colors Apple is so fond of using nowadays, but what of the wonderfully bright and happy colors of yore? They got close with the iPhone 5c, but many of its five colors just don't appeal to me (I like white the best, as it'll go fine with almost anything, with yellow coming in second).

My favorite semi-modern, colored Apple product is the fourth gen iPod Nano (with the fifth coming second). I wish they hadn't discontinued those colors!

What would've been neat wouyld be if Apple had released the MacBook with 4th gen iPod Nano-like color options. I'd get one for the color alone!

c

 

[Juliet Elysa]

I agree, the 4th and 5th gen Nanos are my favorite modernish colored product. Thank goodness there's a variety of case options for iPod touch, the colors Apple offers are pretty dull. But black goes with everything, so it works.

ColorWare lets you customize some tech products. They don't have a huge selection, but they have a small handful of Apple products. And one of the colors they offer is TEAL!!!

 

[Schmoburger]

That's not Blue, it's gold!    wait, that's not a picture of a dress...  

This comment makes insaneboy win the internet^^^

But yes that is most definitely 100% positively an Indigo iMac, Juliet... Graphite is a very distinctly different colour, and the Graphite machines were never made as the firewire-lacking 350Mhz model. These were available initially in Blueberry (often incorrectly referred to as Bondi Blue, which is an entirely different colour available only in the original Rev. A and B. 233mhz iMac trayloaders), and Indigo later on. But yes, there are actually a couple of variations of Indigo I have noticed after having procured a decent sample of various models of Indigo Mac (which is the most common colour found in Australia), with some being a deeper blue whilst others look a little washed out and shallow.

I've also noticed some of the blueberry coloured machines have a milkier looking shell whilst others are clear and vibrant.

 

[Schmoburger]

This is my Graphite iMac DV SE...

For comparison this is a very early Indigo IMac DV...

Boh pictures taken in the same light.

 

[DragonKid]

I wonder if the different variations of Indigo were from different factories, or if it was just subtle differences in plastic batches.  G3 iMacs were built in different places on different continents, I've seen at least:

XA (Apple Elk Grove, CA USA)

RN (LG Mexicali, Mexico)

SG (Apple Singapore)

YM (China - Foxconn?)

PT (Korea, probably LG)

The Cork, Ireland factory may have built iMacs, I'm not sure. Here in the US I mostly see USA and Mexico, occasionally China but those are mostly the low-end ones.

 

[LazarusNine]

I remember the shock and disappointment my mom had when we opened the family's new Blueberry iMac (333MHz). In Apple's advertising at the time, the blueberry looked darker and less Turquoise than it looked like in real life. Little did I know that within a year or so, the Indigo model would be released, which totally would have been up her street. Oh well. I remember we kind of needed a new computer as the only machine we had before that was a Macintosh LC. That was a huge jump for me, but then I discovered the state of Mac gaming in the late 1990s.

 

[Schmoburger]

I wonder if the different variations of Indigo were from different factories, or if it was just subtle differences in plastic batches.  G3 iMacs were built in different places on different continents, I've seen at least:

XA (Apple Elk Grove, CA USA)

RN (LG Mexicali, Mexico)

SG (Apple Singapore)

YM (China - Foxconn?)

PT (Korea, probably LG)

The Cork, Ireland factory may have built iMacs, I'm not sure. Here in the US I mostly see USA and Mexico, occasionally China but those are mostly the low-end ones.

The compositions of the plastics themselves do seem to vary greatly from year to year and presumably one place of origin to another. For instance I have found as a rule of thumb, the early 350, 400 and 450Mhz machines in Australia (presumably sourced from CHina and Singapore in most cases) seem to have an inner bezel that is made of a quite tough, pliable plastic that doesnt readily break and maintains a very grey hue. You can repeatedly flip the thumbnail screw covers out and replace them without them breaking for one. The 500mhz and 600mhz machines I have encountered on the other hand, all seem to have inner bezels that deteriorate with age and fade to an ugly yellowed hue that shoes through the translucent exterior, and this plastic tends to be very brittle, with many of the machines I take apart already having cracks forming, some even basically disintegrating as soon as the external case has been taken off. The thumbnail covers in these will in many cases practically turn to dust the moment you try to remove them. Another thing I have noted also is that the Snow machines seem to be prone to having the area around the handles pull out moreso than the earlier machines, and tbh, I cant even say any of the Indigo machines of the late crud iMac era have had this issue so endemically. So yes, there are definitely variations in the composition of the plastics used from one machine to another.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

About the ONLY thing I like about my iPhone 5c is where its light blue color is beaming bright Magenta through its purple edgeband protector. Infernal thing's relegated to beach phone status once I get the numbers switched around, making the Droid4 my main line again. Post Graphite Apple colors do nothing for me.

I really wanted to see a Lemonade iMac, NOT having all the colors of the Rainbow available was probably more important to his controlfreakness than the urban legend about his not wanting to make a Lemon Mac. Good cover story though. When life serves you lemons, you make lemonade. When you want Apple to be all your own show, you kill the rainbow  .  .  .

.  .  .  and hide the camouflaged Apple logo on top so as not to offend the Windows browsers.

BTW, Indigo rocks! [] ]'>