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iMacHardware

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Who uses, recommends or left iMac, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Mike Krieger
Co-founder of Instagram; background in human-computer interaction.
loved

We just got new iMacs for our team – 3.4 GHz with 16 GB of RAM. It's by far the fastest machine I've ever owned

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview, given while he was scaling Instagram.

2011-11-04·usesthis.com ↗

Khoi Vinh
Designer and writer; design director of NYTimes.com, later a principal designer at Adobe, and author of the Subtraction.com blog.
loved

It's a great piece of hardware and to me it's kind of crazy to think that it's just consumer-grade iron; I barely use a third of its true processing power, I'd bet.

His written "Uses This" interview, walking through his office setup item by item.

2009-10-12·usesthis.com ↗

Brian Kernighan
Computer scientist teaching at Princeton; spent three decades at Bell Labs in the group that produced Unix, C and C++, and co-authored The C Programming Language.
uses

Mostly Macs at this point. I have a 27-inch iMac at work (big screen) but with the tiny wireless keyboard; I long ago got tired of keyboards that, with wheels, could double as skateboards, so it's nice to have a little one made by a reliable manufacturer.

His Uses This interview, on the machines and editors he works with.

2013-06-06·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.