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It had better be a great controller. I just bought a PS4 controller last week. Works great with my Mac.

sflocal said:

I remember those fun iMac years.  I also remember the shameful Chinese iKnockoff makers making a virtually identical PC-version of those iMacs back in the day.  

Yes, not long after the iMacs were released, everybody was all of a sudden releasing a ton of stuff in the same color palettes that the various iMacs came in, just a coincidence of course. 

The entire world was using beige mostly for years and years and nobody questioned it, that's just how things were and everybody was happily just chugging along.

And along comes Apple and says "Screw this beige crap", and they make a super bold move with the introduction of the iMac.

Not long after that, it was monkey see, monkey do time.

Lots of products have gone through name changes and had their names changed before the official release. Another one that comes to mind is Apple TV, that was originally called iTV. If I'm not mistaken, Apple even demoed it or spoke about it on one of their keynotes, and they used the name iTV.

I bought a bondi blue iMac back then and I still have it, and as a matter of fact it still looks great still and runs good, though I don't exactly use it or turn it on too often these days of course.

I was loving Apple's designs around that time. The colorful and see through plastic was something completely new and different that nobody else was doing. Everybody else had these god awful plastic beige machines. Apple's designs were fresh and vibrant, everybody else's were rotten, boring and decaying.

I also liked AQUA on Mac OS X and those designs were exactly right for their time.

The original iMacs were good machines at a reasonable price that served their purpose. It's no surprise that they were a huge hit.

The only bad thing I have to say about the original iMacs is the horrible hockey puck mouse that came with them. They were not ergonomic at all, they weren't even optical, they had a spinning ball that would often get dirty and they were a pain in the butt to use. But it wasn't really a big deal, because somebody could just hook up any third party mouse or trackball of their choice to the machine, which is exactly what I ended up doing.

avon b7 said:

It must be a cultural thing but the vast majority of people in Spain use debit cards. More popular than cash payments and increasingly used for micro payments too. 

I have deactivated all the credit functionality on my card. Haven't used credit in more than 30 years. 

I don't know how things are in other countries, but buying something with a credit card here offers much more protections and advantages than buying something with a debit card, which is basically just using whatever money you have in a bank account.

Buying something with a credit card will grant the buyer more protection, in case there is a problem with the seller for example. Some cards offer increased warranties. And many cards offer bonus points, so the person paying for an item with a credit card is actually paying less for the item than the person who is paying for the same item with a debit card.

And it doesn't cost anything more to use a credit card, it's actually cheaper to use, since the buyer gets cashback on most cards. As long as a person pays their bills on time, then the credit card is the smarter move and it will save the buyer the most money, compared to those who just use a debit card.

And using credit cards and paying your bills on time helps to build up a person's credit score, which will come in handy when the person needs to buy something really expensive or take out a loan, such as for a car or house etc.