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Timeline: 1998–2012

1998-2003

iMac

>An all–in–one computer without a floppy drive that expected you to connect with a new standard called USB? It’ll never take off, critics said. But the iMac G3 was a computing revolution that saved Apple.

1997-1999

Power Mac G3

>The iMac’s bigger sibling may have been cute on the outside, especially the Blue and White model, but inside it was a beast that smoked Intel PCs and was bettered only by its successor, the Power Mac G4.

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