Apple Special Event August 2007: Introduction of the first aluminum iMac

[@limweiming]

it's amazing how this product still look like a designer piece in 2024

[@MrrDoNN]

That’s called simplicity

[@znatnodobre]

thanks to Jony Ive

[@no-nukez]

I mean, they didn’t bother changing from design until 2021, so of course it still looks modern, because it is lol.

[@sigiligus]

The previous iMac design before the Apple silicon models looked way better.

[@tjmbv8680]

I’m running dual 30 inch cinema displays and I can say they are 20 years old but look timeless.

[@euns1156]

Without a doubt, Steve Jobs was the best at presenting. Miss him

[@keaton718]

Because he sound so calm and yet so laser focused driven at the same time. He would have made a great therapist or psychiatrist I think, you'd take his advice very seriously.

[@kevinparker48]

He also said FaceTime would be an open standard... Now we it's 2024 and we still have no way of video calling each other without separate apps.

[@gaminghedgehog6384]

Apple these days seems so overly corporate with their presentations, there isn’t that emotion or authenticity that they had during the Jobs era.

[@bjoernphotography]

Not only best at presenting - also visionary… and a streamlined portfolio…

[@AlexFoeShizzle]

I remember being an 8 year old and watching tips the day it came out... My eyes were glued... Couldn't believe how beautiful those computers were...

[@sidbrun_]

How old are you now? Time to watch it again

[@hajjdawood]

My first mac was the 5k 27" iMac, since then I havent bought a PC. I loved it so much I moved my entire business to macOS and dramatically cut my IT costs.

[@no-nukez]

@@sidbrun_Basic math has failed you

[@talatdymc6539]

They still look up to date.

[@ilovedagreenday]

I love hearing Steve talk about their products. He was seriously so great. Miss that guy.

[@dylanwest5050]

Fun fact, with open core legacy patcher and a cpu upgrade, the first aluminum iMac can not only run the latest version of macOS, but it's the oldest device possible that can run it.

[@jorisw_]

Latest at the time of this message meaning macOS Sonoma 14.x

[@msazak]

Sequioia

[@MrAndreCoutinho]

It struggles badly with Sequoyah.

[@jesse399]

My first Imac! I still have it and it works just fine.

[@dp33600]

+Jesse “Day dreamer” Livingrooms Same :)

[@yourmum9174]

Same

[@Spider-dn7ds]

Still good in 2018?

[@FlintG]

I am looking to get one of the newer iMacs soon possibly a 21 inch. I use a mac mini from 2012 lol.

[@30secondsfacts13]

My First Mac was also this 2007 iMac

[@KatieWilliams1990x]

Only a couple of months after the iPhone announcement and Steve looks noticeably thinner here. It breaks my heart seeing how he declined from late 2007-11. I'll miss him enormously, however he left a great team at Apple.

[@thezump8155]

Omg no way i luv scream queens too

[@t_q1799]

He became diagnosed with cancer since 2003. He tried to get it treated but he died nevertheless.

[@hankagura5355]

@@t_q1799Misinformation he ignored it believing if he ignored it enough he could just power through it, he did it all for Apple. He went out fighting.

[@BG1252354456]

@@t_q1799tried? didn’t he try to cure pancreatic cancer with eating fresh fruits and nuts?

[@heinstein26]

​@@t_q1799He opted not to get Chemotherapy but to get cured by naturopathy. So yeah he technically said no to cancer treatment.

[@deltadom33]

he actually cares about price

[@joeylantis22]

lol.... you're really saying that about Steve Jobs? Take off the rose tinted glasses.

[@jbryan02]

joeylantis22 so the iphone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4s, 5, 5s and basically everything else jobs worked on in terms of iPhones was sold beginning at $199. Then the iPhone 7 came out and they charged like $650 for it.

[@appleutopia231]

650 because that was the price without a contract.

[@АлексейГриднев-и7р]

At leaat he wasn't trying to sell you a stand for $999...

[@MalarkeyMan]

Алексей Гриднев I swear to God if someone makes that joke again ima flip my shit. Sony sells a very similar monitor for 26,000 dollars. Apple sells you that monitor for 5,000 dollars plus 1,000 which equals 6,000. 26,000 can 6,000 HMMMMMMM

[@danielmcneary3947]

lol the keyboard I'm using is basically the same one as they introduced in this video, 8 years ago

[@MultiWalrus1]

.... and another 8 years on, it still hasn't changed.

[@MacPhantom]

0:21 Legacy Nokia phone startup sound in the background! :D

[@Ritermann]

That was literally a simple Power Point 😂 Nowadays they spend 40 million dollars for a Keynote

[@GTA1395]

And these Steve PowerPoints hit way harder than anything they do nowadays.

[@gaminghedgehog6384]

Was way more authentic too😂

[@Raphael-lu7vj]

lmao didnt know it was this expensive

[@DJAJ101]

@@gaminghedgehog6384bingo! Watching Tim and all the others present they’re just going through the motions, it’s pathetic. You can see and feel Steve’s passion for these products.

[@no-nukez]

Yeah it’s almost like they were a smaller company back then, worth 1/20th of what it is today. Crazy that a bigger company spends more money compared to a smaller company!

[@TheCenozoicEra]

I've always loved the classic mac ad music, brings back memories when I was 9 back in 07 I saw that ad on tv, the music always stuck with me

[@McGomezAddams]

It's almost blasphemous that they're so quiet

[@ChristmasMorning1995]

I own both a 2006 and a 2009 iMac ( it’s the 20 inch education model so technically a 2007 iMac with an upgraded processor) and the 2006 is very very quiet to the point where if you’re in a quiet room you can just barely hear the fan run but the 2009 is dead silent. I’ve never heard it make a sound when running.

[@McGomezAddams]

@@ChristmasMorning1995I was referring to the dead crowd

[@ChristmasMorning1995]

@@McGomezAddams I thought u meant the computers lol

[@jorisw_]

It's a small press event at Apple HQ. Usually pretty mellow crowd.

[@obadiahrobinson]

I have a 2008 20 inch IMac I bought for $299.00 from ebay, best computer I ever got.

[@TheHornet79]

Crazy how technology has advanced. "1GB of Ram" lol!

[@lambert1702]

And you will look back in 10 years and think the same thing about today's technology. And we will probably still be doing basically the same things with computers...

[@chadvader93]

as far as I remember most PCs had 2GB in that area already

[@Doompjez]

You can put 6gb of ram in these iMacs and they still work pretty good!! With El Capitan. Says enough about the quality of these products and the efficiency of the OS.

[@blacbraun]

@@lambert1702 Not exactly as the rate of change has slowed down somewhat in recent years. Look back in 20 years and you'll see a huge difference though.

[@TCHGOD]

Now we have 1.5TB of RAM.

[@JonnyInfinite]

1:00 - current MacBook Pro

[@Apple1984]

JonnyInfinite no

[@corytyler6641]

Apple1984 yes

[@Superchrisi123]

steve would have never let this happen.

[@connorlittle5987]

JonnyInfinite lol true

[@RRR-ss3xm]

JonnyInfinite 也

[@devaraft]

"and we are lowering the price" words that won't be said ever again by Apple these days

[@ihavenoideahowtocallmyself3849]

And Apple actually said it more than one time.

[@masterdoge17]

iphone 11, 12pro, apple watch se 2, macbook pro 14 m3, ipad 10th gen

[@frizzyfrank2985]

They lowered the starting price of the Mac mini by $100 in 2020 from $799 to $699 with the M1 model. They lowered it again by $100 in 2023 with release of the M2 Mac mini from $699 to $599.

[@frizzyfrank2985]

But I am responding to a 6 year old comment so

[@glitteriah]

Watching this after Apple launched the M1 iMac

[@capitalutubeticktack4576]

Still these presentations are a lot better than what we see today...

[@JonathanAcierto]

This was a press announcement, so mostly journalists are in the audience, who tend to be quiet and "objective." In the big events, the people who cheer are usually Apple employees like, sales people, and friend of employees.

[@onebumstead7233]

My in laws have this 24 inch iMac. Only last month have we not been able to upgrade it to the latest operating system. It still runs everything that they need. This includes Photoshop, Citrix and even KZbin! Almost 10 years out of an all in one. Pretty cool

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

haha i have 2 of these, one downstairs, & the better one on the kitchen table, where i play SimCity & Wolfenstein lol

[@Foxy1987]

Tey use mac os x (version you want) parcher for usuported machines

[@LivingGospel]

Miss him!

[@Shadow__X]

2007: "Our customers told us that they love our glossy displays" 2019 (Pro Display XDR): "wanna pay 400$ extra for a nanotexture coating to make the display less glossy?"

[@no-nukez]

I mean, this joke only makes sense if you turn off your brain.

[@eggman0291]

3:58 If they could in 2007 they definitley can add memory expansion slots today... and not get stuck with 8gb of memory...

[@Qwajman97]

Not anymore since everything is an SoC

[@kimjongun8731]

Steve was the best designer off all time. I'm worried about the Apple today it feels like there is no new design innovation we have had the same iphone design for few years even the new imacs have been lacking in design innovation

[@daniebello]

once you’ve invented the wheel, the fundamentals don’t change. it keeps it’s form, from then on all progress is iterative.

[@cjeelde]

The onoff button on Mac Mini M4 is a joke! That is BAD design. Seen so many people defending this bad design, I don't know why. I agree that we can put the Mac into sleep so it's almost shut off and we can wake it up anytime, so we almost never need the onoff button. But when we actually need that onoff button, it's important to have easy access! I hope Apple will fix this ASAP and to be realistic we have to wait for Mac Mini M5 or M6... so 1-3 years!

[@darrados496]

Watching this on my 2007 iMac during the COVID-19 Pandemic. (29/08/2020)

[@aaro630]

Im using that computer right now and it's still pretty good after 5,5 years. It's better than most of 3-year old PCs.

[@RealRaynedance]

The first Mac I used was the G3 iMac... The second was the G5 iSight.... But my first Mac to own was THIS one. The lowest end one they show here, but still GREAT.

[@Suiax]

1:00 pretty sure if you spent like 2 mins cable managing that, it would look 10x better. And what i see in that picture, is freedom. Should anything in that image fail, it can easily be replaced, even if anything internal fails. PCs, Especially custom built ones, give you the freedom to open it up, and replace any defective parts. Can you easily do that with an iMac? No, you can't. That's a deal breaker.

[@InformationEMG]

I had one of those. But my family didn’t know about the iPhone yet.

[@gazikun]

3:02 no one clapping is so refreshing they just listening to him like a professor look at those maniacs from today clapping about a new color or a new button

[@WatercraftGames]

It's also a smaller crowd.

[@gazikun]

@ yes that may be also the reason

[@kennerfee100]

My friend's mom has a 2007 iMac, and it's hard drive is dying. It sounded like a drill while it's spinning and took well over a half an hour to boot. Its also still running 10.4.10 Tiger, but his mom refuses to upgrade to the latest version because she thinks that will format the hard drive.

[@blacbraun]

Geeze the bezels look smaller on this iMac than they do on new ones!

[@karactroopduke6413]

Front facing cam? He basically created some type of FaceTime in 07 this man is just dope he makes things make sense

[@mathsrodrigues667]

That was already old on Mac’s. Apple called them iSight Camera back in the day

[@tw-xm7vq]

it’s just a built in webcam - people had been using front facing webcams attached to their computers for years, this one was just built in

[@NiGHTSaturn]

Before FaceTime, there was iChat AV.

[@MrBartleby451]

I bought one of these at launch and only got rid of it last year, in the end it was used as a media server. Can't believe how much use I got out of it over the years,

[@mspeter97]

Of course, put the audio output on the back, damn, these short headphone cables will love you

[@prosincr]

Le Docteur if it can reach your pocket then it can reach the back of your computer

[@mspeter97]

it's still a bit awkward

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

Bluetooth.

[@prosincr]

Le Docteur true

[@pdr770]

The Alt Shift will work with long Press On F1-10 like for Logic Pto where every Button do differnt Functions. Tim.

[@DoctorZisIN]

I'm watching this in 2013 on the 20". I run Mountain Lion with 3GB or Ram. I get a Geekbench score of 2004. Not exactly a speed demon but it runs everything well: Photoshop, Illustrator, iMovie, etc. With Leopard I had a few crashes, but now it's running better than ever. Mountain Lion is a great OS. The DVD RW did break, so I opened up the iMac, pulled the drive out and got an external for $30. One repair in 5 years. Not bad.

[@TopGearrules]

I still use my 2007/08 imac as my main computer... never missed a beat!!

[@jorge10928]

Crazy how times have changed.

[@newagain9964]

Speak for yourself. My windows work laptop is massive. And requires external keyboard, mouse, headset (because speakers are terrible). 👎 It’s a portable desktop more than it is a laptop.

[@laszloszucs5436]

What an amazing person he was! A true inspiration for sure! Miss him so much 🖤😮‍💨

[@ahah1785]

I still use my early 2008 imac with ssd and 6gig of ram using catalina, in 2020, and not upgrading for another 5 yrs at least!

[@jackvenus4024]

How about now?

[@eboymario]

I was 5 when then came out, I remember seeing my parents having one

[@youngboy4129]

And I’m watching this on my $50 24” iMac 😂😂

[@DominicLondon]

Al-u-min-i-um: Al-oo-min-eeum

[@andrewchiasson5996]

+Dominic London That's how Americans pronounce it.

[@andrewchiasson5996]

GOBELDYGOOK I bet it took you long to come up with that clever joke.

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

silly english, thinking they know how to speak english. right, mum?

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

sadly, yes, it did take him long ;-)

[@Sarah_Gravydog316]

Speaker Sex haha i have 2 in my basement. One for old games, & 1 that i want to trade for a new one, if i can

[@matt-irby]

3:58 "you can add memory". Man, those were the days.

[@aymanhazim836_2]

3:07 audience quiet ?

[@dtechmedia7909]

lol

[@Ian64]

Weve had the same design for 10 years now

[@PeteS_1994]

That's the definition of good design, it doesn't age.

[@Jack-hx8yz]

What else can you do? A glass back?

[@KyleGuitarLife]

I can imagine one day it will literally be a 5mm thick sheet of glass with the aluminium stand and that’s it the entire iMac is just 5mm all over Face ID curved corners on the display no chin could have a 4mm bezel all the way around

[@lusicilusci4420]

They should revive the iMac G4 "Lamp" design. It was beautiful

[@jeisson0001]

People not even clap 🙄

[@boomblaster9470]

Its not the same as Macworld or WWDC. This is a simple press conference with boring journalists at apples headquarter

[@AyrisX86]

But they did. At the end of the ad.

[@RecycleBin0]

people with brains dont fall for the apple cult bullcrap

[@ZombieRofl]

0:57 was pretty funny indeed! But the answer to the question he gave himself at 7:22 $_$

[@slob5041]

I wish the iMac got love in the same way now because it’s really one of the best ideas they had

[@G7130]

Was a fucking nightmare to do repairs on..

[@Noah-Lach]

The contrast between this laid-back presentation and today's Mac mini announcement is quite something.

[@MrAndreCoutinho]

Ikr, the new Mac mini m4 is awesome but there’s a fake and cringy enthusiasm in that presentation. Though I love Craig Federighi’s shenanigans when he’s showcasing iPhone and iOS related stuff.

[@Noah-Lach]

@@MrAndreCoutinho Craig was an incredible presenter when he had a live audience to play off of.

[@JayToor89]

I picked up an early 2008 iMac today for £30! I'm going to get 6GB of RAM in there and a 500GB SSD. Job done!

[@jtroy483]

I bought one in college and my mom (who has more patience than me) still uses it in 2024! Unreal!

[@royalfrenchfrie24]

my family's first mac. we just ordered one the new imacs. we love it.

[@xers8719]

@@shyzxed9388 tf

[@wwbdwwbd]

Look at that clean and differentiated lineup. Steve hasn't been dead for 7 years, little Timmy has already flushed a lot of that legacy down the toilet.

[@locomotive96]

I just got one of these 2007 iMacs for cheap and I love it. Hard to beat for what I paid for it lol. Compliments well with my 2012 Macbook Pro 13.

[@Dilligaf_Josh]

Jesse Brooks unless you got it for free; you overpaid. These are laying around by the bunch on recycling centers, fully working.

[@thomascox7404]

Josh H. Really? Damn I need to get one , any tips?

[@SSJGovea]

listen closely at 0:12 you can here the siri activation tone

[@TobyReese]

+SSJ Govea i heard it at 0:22

[@SSJGovea]

+TreyP yes it's also their

[@Spider-dn7ds]

TobyReese this is the nokia when opening the phone

[@Mooooooof]

I was interviewed by Apple the day after this came out. Remember it very well with the conversation starting about what we both thought about this launch

[@paianis]

0:59 Easy solution: Put the tower under the desk and hide the wires.

[@stardust6004]

Skye still Not as aestethic and easy as the all in one thinking :)

[@gstubbz]

Watching this in 2013 on my 20" 2.4GHz. 3GB and Mavericks. Runs great!

[@1999myself1]

Oh. Really Sorry man! But u can ask anybody else to bring it for u. Right?

[@TheAhovking]

I have a 2010 IMacm Best computer ever!!

[@Wolfman09playsMC]

Salty Salts i have an macbook pro 2013 and they're pretty good but this is not my main computer. My main computer is a Gaming PC. i love both my mac and my pc! Mac vs PC? I'm on both sides! :D

[@mathieu6965]

Wolfman099plays I currently own a macbook (Unibody) 13" model, and a MSI GE60 gaming pc same boat bro

[@Wolfman09playsMC]

Mathieu Friolet Nice :)

[@Ttomisabeast1581967]

+Wolfman099plays People don't believe me when I say both are fantastic. I have a Early 2014 MacBook Air 11" and an Asus laptop so there is no doubt that I am on both sides since I use both every single day.

[@ampo2004]

Steve was such a good seller that even TODAY 2024 I feel like I want to buy those products after 15 years haha

[@yasirsaheed]

6:46 1TB Hard Drives were really a lot back then 😂 today it's like the standard for most computers!

[@ahah1785]

Pop it out ...just take out 1 screw and just add memory...wow just wow....

[@allogicid]

3:10 Once the people were screaming when the new iMac Design came out. now they look all the same...

[@sabni8668]

7:50 Steve really wanted Apple to be as low priced as possible without making sacrifices to quality. I miss that

[@SamDSo]

it looks much better now.

[@Neanderthalcouzin]

The first Mac I used was the original from 1984. I grew up using it, and even back then I laughed in my diapers at people who were scared of Macs cos they thought they might be too complicated or something. I shook my rattle and laughed I tell you!

[@Stevepayne1994]

Basically, better graphics, faster memory and a bigger hard drive :) ... skip to 08:30 and you'll see the difference between the two on the comparison table. Hope this helps.

[@nhking4]

Heat on the outside comes from where? Sure in some cases, exterior heat caused by the internals is better... But when your macbook pro gets hot enough that touching the palm rest becomes uncomfortable, to an end user it is a bad thing. And yes, palm rest.

[@silentresilience]

9 years later.... Hmm Now we are using the IPAD,IPHONE,IMAC,MACBOOK AIR,MACBOOK PRO,IPAD MINI AND MORE WELL THAT TURNED INTO A MEMORY FOR THE OLD APPLE USERS... THANKS STEVE

[@MichaelM28]

you spelt aluminium wrong

[@Jack-hx8yz]

*Aluminum

[@whatsadog2445]

“One screw to add memory” Now it’s: “You’re screwed, can’t add memory”

[@Xcokedav096]

have it- 2.4ghz 3gb ram 20" and i love it a lot.

[@jeangouzy742]

R.I.P Steve

[@coleton3000]

I still use this iMac as my daily computer, The only thing ive upgraded was the ram. Apple sure knows how to make a good, reliable computer. I love it!

[@sebastianweetabix8679]

There's already a 24 inch model in 2021 "We made it an *expansive* 24 inches." Back in the day there was already a 24 inch model.

[@stanfordsweird4607]

Wait why was the mouse in the left side..???

[@thomasscott7485]

I still use this model 20 inch 2.4 ghz 4 Gb ram I put a terabyte hard drive in it plus I'm running a dual boot system windows 7 ultimate and mountain lion .

[@RTOF]

0:22 Someone started up their Nokia in the background lol

[@artincorona]

He could sell shit with flies on it if he had put his mind to it.

[@defaultgreen]

Reason they put up with it is you can upgrade... Cheaper. Everytime you buy an image you have to re buy a monitor you don't need

[@dan9700]

Oh I miss Steve

[@Expressionistix]

How do you improve a computer? Change what it's made out of from plastic to a beer can.

[@DozIT]

My first *real* Mac, it was incredible. Technically my first Mac was the 1999 iMac G3, however considering I got that in 2008 that doesn't really count :)

[@stephans.8971]

How different (their) product presentations used to be. In a good way…

[@Hikikomori34]

Still don't know why in 21.5 500gb hard drive instead 1tb

[@Lukeiswayne]

I'm going to miss Steve saying "Screamer"

[@subro_77]

I'm watching this video on that iMac (:

[@dekuno_bo]

4:47

[@thealmighty9]

It's been two years, how do you feel now?

[@blitz8260]

It’s been 7 years since you have commented how do you feel?

[@t_q1799]

​@@blitz8260It's been 2 years since you commented, how do you feel?

[@awa0927]

So nostalgic

[@iTzAidan]

Steve jobs use to do discounts you don’t see that at apple these days

[@mashy712]

Apple prices are pretty good. And you can still get discounts. The $250 AirPods Pro 2 at bestbuy/walmart are on sale for like $180 brand new. iPads usually go on sale $80 off.

[@mrzipdisk]

does windows 7 glitch out on your imac?

[@seabreeze667]

Jobs makes sure that the prices set can reach the masses

[@jorgearaneda98]

I'm from Chile i can't do that the customs house's price will be amazingly high