iMac

noun

iMac

noun

Etymology First appears in 1998, from i- (“internet”) + Mac (“Macintosh”).

1

One of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.

  • When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end.2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885:
  • her face bathed in the blue light of her hypnotically addictive 24-inch iMac2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 115:
Derived terms
iMacintosh, iMacquarium
Related terms
eMac, iBook, iPod, Power Mac

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